motivation

Christ is Born! "What's my motivation?" I remember this becoming a half joke among my drama friends back in High School. As an actor struggles to play a character, and to really understand that character from "the inside out," they would continually ask themselves why that character would be doing what they were doing in the scene. What emotion was driving that line? What intention was behind them doing a certain action. In our reading today, Our Lord outlines what His motivation is. He is the Good Shepherd, the one who is motivated through love of the sheep. He is…