COMMITMENT - Jan 2011
Feminist theologian Carter Hayward writes that commitment is a critical component of love.
Love does not just happen, she notes; it requires commitment. Likewise, justice comes from love and therefore commitment. All of this is a choice: not necessarily a rational choice, but it takes a willingness to be open to conversion.
Poet Mary Oliver writes in her popular poem “The Journey” of listening to the one voice inside that compels us to save the only life we can save. It requires determination, commitment, and a willingness to change.
In love and commitment, Kate