Malcolm McLean's Blog: Faith schools and Catholic culture. - Posts Tagged "selection"

Much of secular life revolves around selection and exclusion - bright children are selected fro the grammar school, or for top set within a non-selective school, Football teams are highly selected. Then later in adult life, big employers interview cohorts of candidates and select the top 10% or so, rejecting the rest. It can seem that life is about passing selection.

Except not really. Many activities are open to anyone. As Woody Allen said, "90% of life is about showing up". That's true of clubs, political movements, and so on, it's also very true of the Church. As long as you show up, you are a known face.

That;s why, in Adam and Abagail Go to St Tom's Abagail doesn't have to do anything particularly special. Unlike Adam, who is challenged in every way, Abagail just sails through school life with scarcely a care in the world. Some are called to a lot, others just to showing up, they are selected by virtue of being sent to the school - even the choice to attend St Tom's wasn't really made by Abagail but by her father.