Our fruitfulness (Fr. Ron Rolheiser / Pope Francis)

Our fruitfulness is often the result not so much
of the great things we accomplish,
but of the graciousness, generosity,
and kindness we bring into the world.

--Fr. Ron Rolheiser 

   In the Genesis account, God commands Adam and Eve to be fruitful. Humankind has a mandate to change, to build, to master creation in the positive sense of creating from it and with it. So, what is to come doesn’t depend on some unseen mechanism, a future in which humanity is a passive spectator. No: we are protagonists, we are – if I can stretch the word – co-creators. When the Lord told us to go forth and multiply, to master the earth, he’s saying: Be the creators of your future. 

--Pope Francis,
Prologue, Let Us Dream

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