I know nobody whose opinion changed because of how thoroughly someone else insulted, belittled or defamed them. It is when one is sitting on top of the world that one is most precariously balanced. A person who has healthy curiosity does something else when they hear something that is different from what they believe or is totally out of their world of thought or experience. There is an enormous difference between being a witness and being an ideologue. To ask God what we are called to do with our resources, our power, is to begin to see our lives in a new way, full of new meaning, purpose and joy.
Meals have meaning.
Sometimes that meaning has to be repaired. But unlike nostalgic meals, sharing the Bread of Life is not focused on the past alone, because salvation is at work in the present. We share Jesus in song and story, in word and sacrament, because the future is Christ's. So I asked the psychiatrist if he had any advice to give a new bishop. Just stay free to follow your own vision.