Dare to Commit
Say Yes in a World of Maybe
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2010
112 pages
978-0-7648-6241-0 (ISBN)
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Are you ready to live a life filled with hope? A life lived "more abundantly"? John 10:10
In today's world people often don't keep appointments, show up for events, or even RSVP to an invitation. More significantly people struggle to keep their marriage intact or follow their chosen vocation. Culturally there is a feeling that people just don't keep their word anymore.
Hope means being able to say YES and to mean it. Fr. Torrens, SJ, explains the major obstacles to making promises in our world today. These obstacles can destroy our hope and affect the most important choices we make in life. Drawing from his experience in counseling others in discernment and from his own decision-making experiences, Fr. Torrens provides examples, strategies, and wisdom to help you practice and hone your skill for making wise choices--enabling you to Dare to Commit.
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James Torrens is a Jesuit priest based in the diocese of Fresno, California. He engages in spiritual direction and Hispanic pastoral ministry. He has been a long-time faculty member at Santa Clara University, an editor at America, the national Jesuit magazine, and a spiritual director at the House of Prayer for Priests in Los Angeles.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Commitment Stories
- "I Never Thought You'd Make It"
- Born to One's Calling
- The Irresistible Summons
- Let Your Life Speak
- Looking Back From the Anniversary
- The Joyces, the Lincolns, and Jonathan
- Keeping the Call Fresh
- Chapter Two: Elements of Commitment
- Clearing Up an Opaque Concept
- Substantive Commitment: Case Histories
- What Makes for a Commitment
- Commitment Is Stable
- Commitment Guides Action
- Commitment Shapes Our Sense of Identity
- How About the Dubious Commitments?
- Chapter Three: Commitment? I Should Say Not!
- Augustine, Not Yet Saint
- The World of the Wantons
- A Look at Narcissus
- What Immaturity Feels Like
- A Bow to Maturity
- News From the Quick Message Culture
- "What Must I do?"
- Chapter Four: A Cloud Over Commitment
- Climate Changes in the Church
- Post-Modernism: Is Life a Joke?
- Signs of the Times According to Cardinal Martini
- A Swim Against the Tide
- In Favor of Magnanimity
- Chapter Five: "How Should I Presume?"
- The Buried Talent
- A People Good at Fearing
- "Papa, Aren't You Afraid?"
- Is it Wise to Fear the Lord?
- "Fear Not, O Worm Jacob"
- From Fear to Boldness
- Chapter Six: Hope, the Fuel of Commitment
- Enough of the Discouragements
- Instances of Hope
- Hope Keeps on Pushing Us
- An Eye Is Opened
- When Hope Kicks In
- Gabriel Marcel, Philosopher of Hope
- "What, Me Worry?"
- The Hopeful Council
- Living in the Divine Milieu
- A World Saved by Hope
- Chapter Seven: And Now To Decide
- Time to Jump?
- Discerning the Spirit
- Making Wise Choices
- Autobiography of Choices
- Ignatius Loyola Learns Discernment
- The Three Times for Choice
- An Attitude of Indifference
- A Freewill Offering
- Chapter Eight: Sailing the Rough Waters
- Going Long Distance
- Some Bucking Up From Saint Paul
- Staying On Course
- To Stay or Not to Stay With the Ship
- Resources for a Celibate Vocation
- Marriage in Rough Waters
- A Tribute to Guardians
- To Sum It Up
- Acknowledgments
