I walked into an auditorium filled with sisters gathered to celebrate a feast day. I only knew one person in the room: the sister standing next to me, Sister Dale my vocation minister. I stuck to her like glue as we maneuvered through the crowded room greeting sisters. At first, I thought it was amazing…
An Active Advent
Every year, the celebration of Christ’s birth calls us to actively discern how we can respond to the outpouring of God’s love.
What is Kintsugi?
Making new meaning is an important part of the healing process of kintsugi. As the pottery is healed with gold, the object is being re-made rather than fixed. In the end it’s not the same object as before, just as people are not the same after healing.
The Vow of Service
She wept as she stood before me. She had just told me her daughter died and that she wanted to donate a meal at the soup kitchen in her honor. “She never let being sick stop her. She’d be out in that dinning room smiling and greeting everyone, and they had loved her,” she told…
Wisdom Will Make Herself Known
Hi all, Here is an excerpt from a paper I recently wrote for my Spirituality of Care class. The paper was about how seeing God in the world, in people, and in ourselves helps to change the world for the better. As I continue to study, I am trusting on Wisdom to make Herself known….
Haitus
Greetings everyone, I apologize for not writing in sometime. As some of you may know, I recently began working on a masters of Theology. Studying does not leave me much time for my other interests and most of my writing time goes into papers and research projects. I look forward to continuing with my blog…
Mercy Global Presence
This month I am honored to share an article I wrote for Mercy Global Presence, which is an ongoing reflection curated by the Mercy International Association at Baggot Street. The theme for September’s material is presence. Given the global nature of the Mercy family and the shared experience of the pandemic, I wrote about how…
Going Deeper into the Woods
Deep in the woods I stopped for a second just to breathe in the sweet warm smell of the forest. Desiré and I hiked for hours. Now neither of us could hear the distant sounds of cars whizzing by on the main road. The morning’s raindrops still patter down, hitting leaves as they fell, giving a…
When We Let Go Together
When my dad read my recent article on Global Sisters Report, Socially Distant Spiritually Connected, he shared it with his spirituality group and connected it with a poem by Lynn Ungar: Lynn writes, “We are connected in ways that are terrifying and beautiful… our lives are in one another’s hands.” Our lives have always been…
Food for the Journey
The metaphor of a journey appeals to me as I think about my life. I am on an inner journey to discover myself, and work towards wholeness and healing. We are each on a spiritual journey with God. As women religious, we are on a journey together to know God more fully in our communal…
A Deer Thirsts 