The Importance of Saying Yes

Good often comes from a ‘Yes’ approach to life, a can-do approach. Part of the growth in wisdom we are invited to develop is knowing how to discern between what should be said ‘Yes’ to and what should be said ‘No’ to.

In our Christian tradition we recognise and magnify Mary’s ‘Yes’. She said ‘Yes’ to God and her only question was ‘How will this be done?’ No preconditions, no worries, no bargaining, no self-indulgence. She took a ‘Yes’ approach to life, and what a life that was!

Excerpted from Emerging from the Mess by Brendan McManus SJ and Jim Deeds (p. 64)