An expression that seems to have caught on in recent years is the idea of being “unhinged.”
If you are described as unhinged, it is not a compliment. It’s the equivalent of being off your rocker, off base, out of control.
Funny enough, I was reading a book—written at least a few decades ago, a spiritual book—and they use this phrase “unhinged” in matters of faith.
Not in matters of someone throwing a major fit in a Starbucks. But in matters of the soul.
I like the imagery as it relates to our faith.
Because a hinge on a door becomes the point that the door rotates around. Of course, the door doesn’t swing all the way around, but you get my point.
It is the fulcrum.
And the door can function properly when the hinge is properly installed, properly aligned, and strong.
When that hinge is even just loose, the door does not work the right way. Let alone if the hinge is completely busted off the wall.
The reflection for us is: Are we unhinged in our faith?
Do we let our faith be the center that everything else both draws its strength from, functions from, and works around?
Or have we become unhinged—detached from the very thing that’s supposed to hold us in place?
Let us pray.
Lord, don’t let our faith become loose or detached. Make it the strong center point that everything else in our lives draws from and revolves around. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Keep fighting the good fight. Our Lady of Victory, pray for us.
