Another product tagline caught my attention. Recently, as I sipped my morning coffee, I heard the question, “What do you wake up for?” on a TV mattress [1] commercial. This question, amid the coming approach of autumn, became a catalyst for deeper thought. The start of the school year, the resumption of meetings and another year of activities often acts for me like a mini- New Years inviting me to renew or make new resolutions. I am given the opportunity to begin a change I want to initiate. This seasonal change offers me the necessary prompt to consider what needs addressing in my life?
Still enjoying my morning coffee, these lines from a poem often attributed to Pedro Arrupe came to mind.
What you are in love with,
what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.
It will decide
what will get you out of bed in the morning,
what you do with your evenings,
how you spend your weekends,
what you read, whom you know,
what breaks your heart,
and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.
-Joseph Whelen, SJ
Indeed, what we are in love with, what seizes our imagination, will affect everything. It will decide everything. What motivates us? Is it time to make mid-year resolutions?
- Sister Nancy Wales, csj
[1] Tuff and Needle Canada | Image: Unsplash/Timothy Eberly
