"Perhaps prompted by the beginning of a new school year, recently I've been remembering my elementary school days, and some of the routines we had and the things we learned. And one of them was the art of diagramming sentences.
"If you're of a certain age, you learned how to diagram sentences, didn't you? For those who don't know, a sentence diagram is a pictorial representation of the grammatical structure of a sentence. . . .
"Diagramming was a very useful skill. . . .
"It's too bad that life can't be organized and diagrammed so easily isn’t it? On the contrary, life is disorganized and unpredictable. . . ."
In a recent commentary, Bishop Thomas J. Tobin, of the Diocese of Providence
(RI), reflected on some of the ways we, as Christians, can deal with the messiness of life, including accepting the fact that sometimes things will happen that we just can't understand or explain and, consequently, placing ourselves in God's hands, trusting in His Providence, and acknowledging that He sees the whole picture a lot better than we do.
To access Bishop Tobin's complete essay, please visit:
The Imitation of Christ: We Can Diagram Sentences, But Not Life (8 SEP 22)
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