Oh Lord, my heart is not proud. May I put aside for a moment my pride, and sense of self-importance I may have and place myself humbly in the hands of my God who knows all my faults and failings and loves me still.
If we look at some of the challenges of integral human development – the word development sometimes conjures up the idea of self-fulfillment – doing my own thing, not being bothered about others, let alone God. God’s plan for his people includes not only material prosperity but also certain spiritual goals.
Imagine our globalized world if all the world’s people served God with one accord, if all pride and haughtiness vanished, and everyone was humble and lowly, if dishonesty was no more, and fear was unheard of.
What does this vision say to you?
This vision may sound unrealistic and impossible to realize, and for human beings on their own it is. What is significant about the Christian Social vision is it incorporates the spiritual life. You can’t just treat people as though they were a bag of chemicals. The question of development is closely bound up with our understanding of the human soul in so far as we often reduce the self to the psyche and confuse the soul’s health with emotional well-being. These over simplifications stem from a profound failure to understand the spiritual life, the human person, the unity of body and soul, born of God’s creative love and destined for eternal life. The human being develops when he grows in the spirit. When his soul comes to know itself and the truths that God has implanted deep within.
When you enter into dialogue between yourself and your creator, how important is it to you to foster a healthy spiritual life?
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