The Time Is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage

by Joan D. Chittister

We know who we are and why we do what we do, and no amount of self-doubt or breast beating can stop our journey to justice.

Impatience stirs the soul to action.

We begin to understand the vision that drove prophets before us to relinquish the standard future, to risk the journey of faith so that others could also live. We can see now what drove their impatience to give the world gifts the world never dreamed would ever come.

And even if not that, it is about your own opportunity to evolve beyond your old self. There is nothing but growth and insight and wisdom on this road. Be not afraid.

We need to decide on which areas of change we ourselves want to concentrate. We are here to be messengers of God. We are here to be a rudder on the ship of life. We are meant to be heralds and watch guards, lovers and followers of the Jesus who called all of Israel to remember the poor, save the women, embrace the outliers, consort with

It is a most exalted—most demanding, most dangerous—calling.

Prophecy is about being a clear voice about a specific need. It is about identifying the clouding forces on the human horizon.

It is the voices of Amos and Hosea, Isaiah and Micah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and now yours that is needed to change the world.

What does a prophet do? A prophet cries out, cries out, cries out. Without fear. Without care for cost. Without end. Dear Prophet, for the sake of the children, for the sake of the world, for the sake of the gospel, Cry out.