After reading Clarence Enzler's meditations:
"Jesus is stripped of his clothes."
I need to ask for help in being detached from desires of power, prestige and wealth. I ask myself "but why not?" These are not bad things, but they cannot be ends in themselves. Yet I find myself drawn to these things, even though such desires only cause strife. "I am working way too hard for this little post-doc salary!" "I want to be department chair!" These thoughts definitely don't help, yet i have hard time letting go of them - am I trying to look at my mentor as what I want to be? Rather than as a result of God leading the way? as an end to itself?
Oy.
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