Dear Friends,
The other day I came across a comment about a man who went around the world trying to get pictures of people in their native dress. He stopped in the 1930’s with 75,000 pictures. They are amazing in their variety but what was most interesting was the comment that if the same thing were to be done today there would be only one picture; a man or woman wearing blue jeans, sneakers and a t-shirt.
How could we, in the most consumer driven society the world has ever seen, wear nearly the same thing each day? With ostensibly every choice in the world, we choose the same thing with astonishing regularity. While I think jeans, sneakers and t-shirts are fine clothing, imagine the reaction if you cleansed your house of these three items…and yet we claim we live in complete freedom.
Christ on the other hand actually does offer us freedom. St. Paul said he had become all things to all men in order to preach the Gospel. Christ doesn’t ask us to be just like each other, he asks us to be just like him, in our own unique ways. We can be free to be who we were made to be.
Several years ago a friend of mine wrote a song detailing a conversation between a critic and a Christian. The critic claims the Christian is losing his freedom by practicing his faith. This is the Christians response,
Freedom to you means slavery to me,
You want to bind me with an earthly chord,
but joy and peace and happiness and life
are the slavery that I’m heading for,
Safe in the hands of the Lord.
God bless,
Timothy Gallic
Principal, Holy Family High School
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