{"id":10137,"date":"2021-01-13T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T03:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sdb.org.hk\/?p=10137"},"modified":"2021-01-13T11:06:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T03:06:53","slug":"get-out-of-your-comfort-zone-fr-alfred-maravillas-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sdb.org.hk\/?p=10137","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGet out of your comfort zone!\u201d: Fr Alfred Maravilla’s message"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(ANS – Rome,RMG,12 January 2021<\/span>)<\/strong>\u00a0– Fr Alfred Maravilla, General Councilor for the Missions, published a missionary message for the month of January 2021. The focus of his reflection is the need to leave one’s comfort zone, even if this can be very demanding for each of us.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Below, his message:<\/span><\/p>\n

We often hear the saying \u2018get out of your comfort zone\u2019 but what is it? Our \u2018comfort zone\u2019 is that area of our life in which we do not feel any stress and anxiety because we feel familiar with and in control of our environment. Anything outside our comfort zone is always very challenging for us. But there is also that little voice in the back of our head which readily comes up with a thousand reasons why our new idea or new way of doing will fail, is dangerous, should not be repeated, should be avoided\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

We will always be stuck in our comfort zone, never moving forward and never growing. It does not allow us to discover what we are capable of. Thus, we continue doing things we have always done without realising that we have actually become blind to the fact that it is not producing results anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n

We need to challenge ourselves to move out of our comfort zones by taking small steps like learning to understand and appreciate the way others see things which is different from my own point of view. Learning to eat food from another culture or learning another foreign language is another small step. So is living in another culture, another country. Indeed, it is only in taking small steps, but many of them, that we will be able to break through our comfort zone and move forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

A ship is meant to sail the high seas, not to be safe in the harbour. We too are designed to set out into the deep, to push the boundaries of what we can achieve and unlock our potentials as \u2018missionary disciples\u2019. Thus, Pope Francis insisted that \u201cfollowing Jesus is not a polite etiquette to be observed, but a journey to be undertaken.\u201d Indeed, if we ourselves want to find Jesus, \u201cwe have to overcome our fear of taking risks, our self-satisfaction and our indolent refusal to ask anything more of life\u201d (Homily, January 6, 2018).<\/span><\/p>\n

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