Our daily orchestrating task
IBELIEVE this is what many of us are fast realizing these days. With the multiplying things we have to attend to each day, we are pressured to learn how to orchestrate them if only to come out at the end of the day with some meaningful accomplishment and with a great sense of consistency despite the different tasks involved. Yes, we have to learn when to us the proper priorities among the move fast and when to move slow, many concerns and tasks we have. when to be active and when to be After all, he is the creator of the contemplative, how to distinguish whole universe and as such, is the between the essential and the original and supreme lawgiver, the incidental. We have to sharpen our establisher of the proper order in sense of order and priority, especially the world. because very often we would be faced In Christ, the God made man with competing priorities. to give us “the way, the truth and Besides, we have to know how the life,” we are given the way of to combine the intellectual and the how to orchestrate the many tasks physical aspects of our work, the old and the diverse concerns we have and the new, the traditional and the everyday. In Christ, we are given how innovative. We have to know how to to orchestrate things in the context blend our duties at home with our of our fallen nature, our wounded responsibilities at work. We have to condition that is in need of healing be ready to cope with our usual daily and redemption. routine and the occasional surprises We cannot deny that this delicate that come our way. task of orchestrating the many things
That task of orchestrating in our day, some of them competing all these things has become an or even conflicting with each other, urgent necessity indeed. And it is has to contend with our weaknesses understandable that we be tempted and the many temptations around, to be very practical about this plus the many sinful structures concern and to meet its demands already embedded in our systems with simply practical means. and culture.
But I believe that being practical It’s only with Christ that we can in all this would at best be only a orchestrate the many confusing temporary remedy. It cannot go things without getting lost along the the distance. What is absolutely way. Only with Christ can we learn necessary to properly tackle the how to orchestrate things properly challenge is to root ourselves on God. in the midst of the many evils in the He is the source and goal of unity world, teaching us when to tolerate among the endless diversity and certain evils and when not, and variety we find in our life. most importantly, how to suffer and
God is the one who can show to derive something good from the consequences of all the sins in the world that we cannot avoid.
Yes, it is only when we get vitally identified with Christ that we can achieve a certain unity and consistency of life amid the many variables that condition us. Only with Christ can we truly achieve our proper ultimate end even as we immerse with the changing circumstances of our life.
I n t his regard, we cannot overemphasize the need for a certain plan that would put us always in God’s presence, at least, as we go through all the tasks and concerns of our day. There is definitely the need to spend some time in prayer and meditation if only to develop a certain intimacy with Christ that hopefully would last the whole day.
We need to develop the attitude of constantly looking for Christ in everything that we do, with the hope of finding him. And in finding him let’s hope that we can be moved to love and serve him./