Turning Things Around on Christmas
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Hello everyone! I‘m Sr. Vassa, and I‘m delighted that you've joined me again for this brief Coffee
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Break. And merry Christmas to those of you who are already celebrating Christmas! You know, zillions,
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at this time of year many of us are, of course, spending more time than usual
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with family and close friends, while others
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of us might feel more acutely than usual our loneliness or the absence or loss of the
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one or ones we have lost. Whatever our situation may be, at this time of year we are confronted
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in a special way with our relationships with other people, from present and past.
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So let‘s talk a bit today
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about turning things around. What do I mean by that? I mean, let‘s focus on what we
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can give at this time rather than what we receive. Because this kind of focus can liberate
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us from the rut of self-pity or dissatisfaction with others who surround us. As it says in
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a well-known prayer, “O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled
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as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love; for it is in giving
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that we receive; it is in forgiving that we are forgiven; it is in dying to self that
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we are born to eternal life.“ I was thinking about all this today, actually, zillions, because I was
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so moved by an interview I came across, in an Austrian newspaper called "Österreich".
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This interview is with a man named Georg Fraberger, who was born with
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no arms and no legs.
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I don't know if you can see this, but we'll put his picture up.
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Now, he‘s a man of faith, he's a very successful psychologist, author of several
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books, and also happily married with children. And this man says that one of the strongest
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antidotes against feelings of existential Angst or fear, and also depression, is compassion
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for other people and empathy, along with being yourself. Anyway, I would love to tell you
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more about this man, zillions, but I do have to be going right now, and I hope to see you next time!