Today reflect on your CHOICES and how the choices we make give meaning to our lives – for good or for bad!

The movie “Invictus” staring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon takes place in post-apartheid South Africa in 1995.

Morgan Freeman plays Nelson Mandela who was … elected President of South Africa after being imprisoned for 24 years by the white racist government.  Nelson Mandela was the embodiment of black South Africa’s hopes and aspirations.

The country was on the brink of civil war, many expected a bloodbath: the black majority demanding justice for the decades of poverty, brutality and oppression they endured.  Mandela sees the Springbok Rugby Club as the vehicle for reconciliation.  To black South Africans the all-white Rugby Club and their green and gold colors were the despised symbol white rule.

South Africa was scheduled to host the World Rugby Cup President Mandela decided to enlist the Rugby Team’s white captain to help transform the team from a hated symbol of apartheid into a rallying point for the new nation of South Africa.  Mandela CHOSE to forge a path of forgiveness and reconciliation rather than revenge.

(Connections 2/7/10)

 

Jesus asks us to deny our self and follow Him; He asks us to CHOOSE HIM!

           

St. Francis deSales said “It is our works and not our words that give testimony to what we are. “  (Sermon in a Sentence, p.56)

This week allow God’s grace to transform you, allows God’s Love to purify you and allow God’s mercy to fashion you.  If you do you will have a great week.

May God Be Praised!