Do you ever get so involved with doing something for someone or even worrying about them, that you forget yourself? You are gone. The only thing that exists is the other person; their problems, their needs, their happiness. You loose yourself in the other person.
How about when you are doing work that involves you so much that time flies by. You concentrate on the task to such an extent that time seems to literally warp, like in the "Wrinkle in Time". In that classic children's book, time is illustrated by a string that you hold at two points. Bring those two points together and the middle section loops down. Time continues along the top part, however, thus shortening the time continuum by leaving the loop part entirely out. You think it must be lunchtime and wonder why everyone is going home for the day. You loose yourself in your work.
The Wednesday morning Gospel Reflection reminds us that"...we must forget ourselves.....If we want to save our life we will lose it...if we lose our life for Christ and for the gospel we will save it."
Our great egos like us to think about the great Me. But, when we loose ourselves in Christ we become the best of who we are in the world. We discover who we are in community by disappearing in the process of selflessly loving and caring for one another. And, we discover our "Purpose Filled Life" by living our passion, albeit it art, businesses, science, or whatever uses the talent, skills and abilities that we have been given in life.Fulfilling God's purpose for ourselves.
There is no greater cure for self pity, fear, arrogance, addictions and most of what ails us than to loose ourselves in the way that Christ would want us to. And, perhaps, this is the greatest gift of all.
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