What makes a life vibrant?

Vibrancy is the act of living, pulsing, moving, existing beyond existing.

Vibrancy is colour, is action, is joy, is wonder, is celebration.

Vibrancy is grief, remorse, doubt, anger, angst;

Vibrancy is giving, receiving from those who give.

Vibrancy is not a cure to stagnation. Vibrancy cannot exist where there is no willingness to be “vibrant.”

Our church is vibrant.

We feed the poor. We embrace our pain. We unite our suffering, and our joy, with Christ’s.

We act in justice, speaking truth where others dare not.

We celebrate liturgy, but beyond that, understand trauma can infiltrate and make dark what is light.

Vibrancy is not given. Vibrancy is active. It is “YEET”.

It is the flag moving, the wind blowing: it is the moving everywhere.

The Eucharist is vibrancy. The Rosary is vibrancy. The words on the page, the reading, it is the moving everywhere.

Vibrancy is the Holy Spirit in between a cup of coffee and a smile that is yet to happen.

It is the Father, holding the Cross.

It is the Son in His passion.

Vibrancy is the space between the hand, the seed, the ground.

It is the distance between the mustard seed and the tree.

It is the distance between the wine and the Blood.

Vibrancy abhors cutting corners. Vibrancy dies in the presence of empty desire. 

Lusting, needing, wearing, owning, consuming–these are the killers of vibrancy.

You cannot dance if you simply expect to tango.

You cannot ride a horse if you simply sit on a saddle.

You cannot drink the Blood if you have not consecrated the wine.

Stale, empty the robes and the acts of those who lack vibrancy.

Dance.

Dance like Jesus at the wedding at Cana.