“The less you know, the stronger your conviction.”
Whenever I think about the above words, I reflect deeply on my convictions.
Strong convictions enable us to build the courage to act, yet it needs to be balanced with the humility to reflect on feedback from reality.
It is a delicate balance.
It is easier to see the folly in another’s strongly held convictions than our own, which is why it is only logical to assume it is easier for other’s to see our own folly.
This logic helps us to be more open to learning from another’s standpoint, instead of assuming our beliefs are airtight.
There are always alternatives to our chosen paths.
We become limited when we believe the path we see is the only path there is.
– Osasu Oviawe
Day: November 12, 2020
The Lord’s intercession
John 17:20-26
“I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. The glory which thou hast given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and thou in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them even as thou hast loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in thy love for me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee; and these know that thou hast sent me. I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
Homily:
Amen.