Certainly a valid critique -- I would only adjust your last sentence to read "HER theology" rather than theology as such! Still, there is *something* true here that resonates, I would say not just for women, but for men. I find clues of it when I prepare for confession and consider both what I have done, and what I have *left undone.* Th…
Certainly a valid critique -- I would only adjust your last sentence to read "HER theology" rather than theology as such! Still, there is *something* true here that resonates, I would say not just for women, but for men. I find clues of it when I prepare for confession and consider both what I have done, and what I have *left undone.* The question being, in the light of the Parable of the Talents, what gifts have I buried? Where, in service, have I used service to escape a deeper service, an attentiveness to some other task that God has also given me, some other gift that I must also cultivate? And sometimes those other gifts can seem "selfish" or contrary to the self-giving I am called to make to my family. Of course this reasoning can also be applied as an excuse to evade an obligation... no hard and fast rules here: discernment is necessary, as always!
Certainly a valid critique -- I would only adjust your last sentence to read "HER theology" rather than theology as such! Still, there is *something* true here that resonates, I would say not just for women, but for men. I find clues of it when I prepare for confession and consider both what I have done, and what I have *left undone.* The question being, in the light of the Parable of the Talents, what gifts have I buried? Where, in service, have I used service to escape a deeper service, an attentiveness to some other task that God has also given me, some other gift that I must also cultivate? And sometimes those other gifts can seem "selfish" or contrary to the self-giving I am called to make to my family. Of course this reasoning can also be applied as an excuse to evade an obligation... no hard and fast rules here: discernment is necessary, as always!