Isn’t it
wonderful news, brothers and sisters, that we come to God not by our perfection,
but by our imperfection? That gives all of us an equal chance, and utterly
levels the human playing field. No pretending is necessary.
Deep within each
of us lives both a leper and a wolf; in Franciscan imagery, Francis embraced the
leper on the road, and called it his conversion; and Francis tamed the wolf in
Gubbio in his later years. The stories did happen historically, but first of all
they were revealed in his soul.
It is on the
inside of us that lepers and wolves first live. If we haven’t been able to kiss
many lepers, if we haven’t been able to tame many wolves, it’s probably because
we haven’t first of all made friends with our own leprosy and the ferocious wolf
within all of us. It is always there in some form, waiting to be tamed and
forgiven.
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