The Open Window
Antonio Zebedeo Abad How do we make sense of all this? What is happening all around us? He said to them, “Why are you terrified, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was great calm. Mt 8:26 NABRE Many times, all the events of life just don't make sense. We become anxious because we feel we don't have control. It is a common Western view that I am in charge of my own destiny, until we realize that events just happen that seem to take away our control. We forget who is really in charge. St Teresa of Avila experienced two events that God revealed to her. One is the transverberation, where her heart was pierced by the lance of an…