Converted

"Each falling down is a calling to be converted, to become more fully ourselves, and we cannot do it if we simply get back up and go back to the same way of being that led us to fall in the first place." Ada María Isasi-Díaz

Those of us who have been on this planet for any length of time will find a need to be converted. The Free Online Dictionary gives this definition of convert: to change into another form, substance, state of being; transform. One of the dangers of becoming middle-aged and older is that we might be resistant to change. My grandma would have called it "being set in your ways." So life gives us these little gifts, these places where we fall down, these opportunities to be transformed. To find a new way of being.

Are you familiar with Isasi-Díaz, this woman I have quoted, who passed away last month? As a little girl, she wanted to be a Roman Catholic priest, but of course as a female, she could never be. So she found a different way to be, and with that, she changed her world. You can read more about this fascinating woman here.

Susan