A brother seminarian has this at the end of each email he sends out:"Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me."
I rather like this. It's attributed to the journals of Jim Elliot, a (non--Catholic) missionary who died in bringing the Gospel to the unreached Auca tribe of Ecuador in 1956.
May it be so, that we not only serve as pointers and signs to Christ, but abide with him so much so that others see him in us and are forced to make a decision: do I allow myself to be converted a bit more, or do I walk away?
I know fork people like this and it's true: they bring me and just about everyone they meet to a decision point. Conversion or reversion?
mk
