Messy Desk Contest Winner
In our culture being organized is a valued trait. In some ways I am organized, preparing an event, working in the gardens or making a meal. But in other ways, keeping my office and storage areas in basement clean and organized I am very UN-American. Why am I so organized in some ways and in other ways a failure?
My guess is that it has to do with personal priorities. I value being available to drive a friend in need somewhere or having the garden in front and back look good. But unless I get motivated I will just let organization of my office become a major mess.
There seems like always so much to do in life that one way to control it is to do what is a priority and ignore the rest. Priorities are built around persons and relationships and with a reflection and awareness of what is important. Being aware of one’s priorities and doing them first is something I need to work on and so does my Church, the Roman Catholic religion.
Working in a Catholic Church some years ago when the sex scandal first broke into national attention, I felt the Church was putting a lot of time and attention into damage control and preventing future abuse of children. That was good but something seemed to be missing.
Now that the abuse scandal of priests has raised its ugly head again I think I know what was missing, and still is, that makes me uneasy about how the Church is handling this scandal. The bishops of the Catholic Church were quick to apologize for past abuses in the Church and were quick to say how it was in the past and how we must forgive and work on preventing it from happening in the future. What was missing was the admission and awareness by the bishops and priests how their silence about what was going on contributed to this terrible abuse.
Keeping silent or just ignoring something so wrong is contributing to it. History of failure to break the silence needs to be acknowledged by authorities in the church and forgiveness needs to be requested for this sin of silence.
Persons who keep silence or ignore the face of sin and wrong-doing are guilty of contributing to it. The first step in reorganizing the Church, just like the first step in organizing one’s office, needs to be awareness of one’s role in the mess, even though it might have been by keeping silence or ignoring the mess.
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