Our weaknesses

I read a very good meditation this morning by Fr. Ron Rolheiser. It gave me hope for my weaknesses. That good can come from them since I have so many and they never seem to go away. He speaks of James Hillman whose "view is that it is not our strengths that give us depth and character, but our weaknesses. More of us are rendered superficial by our successes than by our failures; more of us are torn apart by our strengths than by our weaknesses." Who of us doesn't have weaknesses? But who of us want to admit or even look at our weaknesses? We might have to do something about them and that doing is what strengthens us. Polish Psychologist Kazimierz Dabrowski says "Almost always deep growth takes place through the opposite - our death, our losses, our dark nights of the soul." Ron Rolheiser says "Inferiorities and failures are not things to be buried as private and past shames. They are to be listened to. They are entries into the depth of our souls." Rejoice!! For we are all human and we all have weaknesses and through those weaknesses we can look deeply at ourselves and seek to know how God works within each one of us.
God bless!!