Most of us look for motivation... mostly to stick to our goals and resolutions. Hence the plethora of motivational talks and quotes that one finds on social media and whatsapp messages. Nonetheless, what keeps one going is a commitment, a discipline, a consistent rhythm. In that sense, motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.
So I ask myself, is religious life and its principles, my motivation or a discipline? It ought to be a discipline. Motivation can be temporary and not always available. But what I can and should commit myself to is a discipline, a rhythm of life based on the Gospels.
Life as a religious is no different from that of a sports person. Both the streams of life demand a certain stringent discipline, without which one gets no where and barely achieves anything worth at all. Perhaps, just a difference of reason and purpose. A religious lives for God and people to whom he or she has committed his or her life to. A sports person lives for the merit of the game.
The beauty of this discipline is that when supported by love, it becomes a vocation; if not, it is an obsession.
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