When
I was a single adult, the loneliness didn’t come on Valentine’s Day, when I
showed up alone to a wedding, or when I saw an engagement on Facebook. But, like for most single people, it
was still a presence in my life.
For me, it came while walking through a neighborhood, houses full of
families, or when trying to make a major decision about my life, realizing the
outcome affected me much more than anyone else.
Following
Monsignor Luigi Giussani’s instructions in his book The Religious Sense, I used my emotions as “binoculars” to look
more closely at my life. Giussani,
founder of the ecclesial lay movement Communion and Liberation, wrote, “Let us
imagine feeling as a kind of lens; the object is carried closer to a person’s
cognitive energy by this lens so that reason can know it more easily and
securely.”
Read the rest here.
And my article on beauty and the church here.
