Facing the Unknown Helps you Reorient

 

My brother had a fall from the front parapet of the first floor of the building. He was at work as usual and never expected to fall. But it did happen. The unknown happened. He felt that the fall could have either incapacitated him to work again or caused his death. The people around him instantly gave the care he needed. It helped him. After a day, his blood pressure increased and thinking of the fall, a feeling of fear came over him. He said that there was a God-fearing man at that time around him who said that there was an invisible hand holding him. That man also spoke of the power of the Holy Eucharist to him. My brother did believe that due to the prayers of my Mother, and the good people around him strengthened him. He was happy to get a priestly blessing from me. Speaking to him over the phone, I realized that the event reawakened him and reordered/reoriented his living principles:

-          “I know that it is not money that matters, but the help you do with the money you get and bring relief to the people most in need.” He spoke of contributing a little amount to a sick man in the neighborhood and keeping apart a day’s wage to help people. He made a resolve to bring this decision into practice. He is not a government employ or does he have a guaranteed job. He relies on the work he gets.

What I am (the present) – How I Act? – what should be? (the ideal). We normally fear the unknown. But if the unknown happens, we redirect our attention and bring changes to the cognitive dimensions of the already known. We then adjust our behaviors. In fact, we are biologically prepared to adjust. As Jordan Peterson says, “we act to transform where we are into what we should be.”