Room for mystery
- Rob McCann, Executive Director
Recently someone was telling me that they’d heard some physicists talking on a television show, discussing the components of the universe. One of the scientists said, “That thing we don’t understand, that x-factor—let’s call that love.”
That x-factor is the mystery that fuels our work. We can call it love, or God, or Jesus, or charity. The name is not so important. It requires only that we make ourselves available to us and let it flow through our beings. We at Catholic Charities have the great good fortune of being mandated to respond to its call.
The exciting part about that is that you can never predict exactly how things will turn out. You can make a guess, but sometimes it turns out you’re not even in the ballpark. What we do know is that it will shift things, and if that shift doesn’t seem to be what it should at first, well, we know enough to wait… No story here at Catholic Charities has a definitive ending, but it sure is awe-inspiring to watch the mystery unfolding along the way.
Whatever our roles, whether we be maintenance people or counselors or administrative assistants or front-desk workers at the House of Charity, our job is to let that x-factor live and move and have its being within our behavior. Talk about job satisfaction!
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