Encounters with Silence - Karl Rahner

Only in love can I find You, my God. In love the gates of my soul
spring open, allowing me to breath a new air of freedom and forget
my own petty self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the
rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which
make me a prisoner of my own poverty and emptiness. In love all
the powers of my soul flow out toward You, wanting never more to
return, but to lose themselves completely in You, since by Your love
You are the inmost center of my heart, closer to me than I am to
myself.

Karl Rahner, from Encounters with Silence

Jim Strzok, S.J.
Retreat Director/Construction Manager
strzokj@sjeafr.org

Jim supervises the construction of Ocer Campion Jesuit College. He is the chairman of the Eastern Africa Province's Building Committee. Since first coming to east Africa in 1986, he was responsible for building Xavier House, the Jesuit community in Kampala, uganda and Pedro Arrupe Jesuit Community in Nairobi, Kenya -- a new residence/retirement center on the Jesuit retreat center's grounds. He also presently supervises construction at the Riara Center for Peace and Justice Studies and two resident buildings at Mwangaza Retreat Center, Nairobi, while doing retreat work.

Jim graduated from Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1957. He taught chemistry, physics and earth sciences until moving to Uganda in 1986. He is Provincial Delegate for Kenya.