clients
Keeping it real
Rob McCann, Executive Director
Here’s something I love about the staff here at Catholic Charities: they know what it means to keep it real.
What I mean by that is, they know that any line that is drawn between us and our clients is illusory. They’ve heard enough of the stories, seen enough powerful people brought low, sometimes experienced enough reversals of fortune themselves, to know that it can happen to anyone.
So, while there can be a temptation to draw a line between us and our clients, we can’t do that. We know that we are loved by the same God, equally qualified for the same grace, and susceptible to the same upsets of reality as the clients who depend on us, some of whom used to be on the other side of that line, as were some of us. Thus, there is no line. There’s only a circle. Our places on it can and do shift with startling rapidity.
It’s easier to treat people as your neighbor if you’re aware that you could literally be neighbors at any time, whether that be in nice houses on the South Hill or at the House of Charity.