Opportunity

In preparing a prayer for a session focused on Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop, I reflected on her industrious efforts to create opportunity for those who were not naturally afforded it in society at the time. Education opens doors, and not all were receiving one. In drawing parallels to today I thought about the way in which we judge, assume and limit each other. I remembered a video shown by a colleague at a previous place of a woman with a physical disability playing a fiddle with amazing skill. I wondered how much harder she had to battle for the opportunity to play because others saw a limit rather than her capacity. Will we ever get this fixed in society so that we all have opportunity? Or will we need more Mary MacKillops to emerge willing to do a lot of hard work so that opportunity knocks on more doors?