Waiting for the Lord: from rigidity and chaos to integration
1st Sunday of Advent – Year B
In some of our institutions in Asia and Africa we have watchmen or security personnel. I am talking about the day-watchmen particularly those who mind the gates, not the night-watchmen, who are actually paid to sleep in our properties! (The only night-watchman I have ever come across who we knew was not sleeping at night actually went mad after doing his job so conscientiously for three months.) In any case, I think, there are three types of watchmen – sorry for not being gender-sensitive here, since I have also come across security women these days! There are the rigid ones; there are the chaotic ones; and then the integrated ones. The rigid ones prefer to stand or sit […]