Life is Messy by Matthew Kelly (Current Knights Discussion Book - Part 2)

Hello Brother Knights,

At our next KofC meeting on Tuesday, March 15th we will be continuing our discussion on our book by Matthew Kelly Life is Messy with Part 2. Part 2 of the book will be starting with the chapter Dante's truth through the chapter If I had a dollar for every time. For those that do not have the book, you may still be able to pick one up at Church or contact me directly to have a copy delivered to you.

This book is about putting our lives back together, and allowing ourselves to be put back together, when life doesn’t turn out as we expected it to. Based on his own heart-wrenching personal journals, Matthew Kelly shares how the worst three years of his life affected him, by exploring this question: Can someone who has been broken be healed and become more beautiful and more lovable than ever before?

Here are some possible discussion questions that have been recommended for you to think on as you read the second part:

Question 1: In the sections “Dante’s Truth,” and “Dark Night of the Soul,” Matthew Kelly lists some signs that we are in the dark woods or experiencing the dark night of the soul. p.26-28

• Have you ever gone through long periods of excruciating suffering? How did you find your way out of it?
• What conversation are you avoiding? How is that avoidance creating a mess in your life? How can you move toward having that conversation? 

Question 2: Matthew Kelly says that most of us participate in evil every day.  “The most common and insidious example is gossip.  It is perhaps the everyday evil that has been most normalized.” p.42 

• Have you ever done anything that has negatively altered the course of your life or someone else’s? 
• Discuss or reflect on the times when you have been either the perpetrator or victim of gossip.

Question 3: “We are dehumanizing a whole civilization by desensitizing people to evil. When you dehumanize people, it changes the way they treat each other.”  

• Talk about the virtues and vices of social media discussed in the “If I had a dollar for every time…” section, p.46-50. 
• Does social media advance or detract from a person’s ultimate happiness?
• What role should we allow social media to play in our lives and in society? 

Agenda for our March 15th meeting will be sent out at a later time closer to the meeting date.

Thank you all,

Marc Gregoire