Today the world has changed out of all recognition, almost, from what it was like 30-40 years ago. Religion is much more about seeking. Many of this younger generation, they are ‘seekers’ rather than ‘dwellers’. A seeker is somebody who is genuinely seeking truths, seeking God, seeking a spiritual path, but they don’t really have anywhere to do it from. They don’t have a spiritual home – they don’t have a tradition, they don’t have a church where they can say this is where I belong. To relate to them, to communicate with them, to share with them, is very different. And we need to be seekers ourselves, we who ‘dwell in the house of the Lord’ (Ps 23:6, 27:4), we who belong and will say ‘Yes, I am happy and proud to say I am a disciple of Jesus, not a good one, but I’m doing the best I can’.
Christian Life in the Light of Christian Meditation 3: Evangelisation: by Laurence Freeman OSB
