September 24th -

I came here not knowing what the results would be, only knowing that it was "time". Would coming here be a closure? The ending of this part of my life?

Sr. Faustina understood the place this community has in my heart because she transferred here from a different community. It is like a "first love"; no one else can fill that space in our hearts. The beautiful sharing of their lives by some of the sisters who I didn't know before strengthened and enriched that bond.

In sharing the last 30 years of our lives with my "novitiate companions" I'm getting to know and appreciate them even more deeply. As in ACS and other aspects of my community life, sisters don't have to live together or even agree on everything(!) to love and prayerfully support each other.

Sisters keep asking me what I'm doing now, and I'm tongue-tied for an answer! What DO I do? Most of all, I try to live in awareness of the Divine Presence in and all about me. And I try to grow through the events of each day. It sounds so "unproductive"!

At the same time, the other things I "do" - Elder College, Justice making, dog sitting, computer tutoring, etc., sound empty to me. They are not who I am, altho they emerge from who I am.

Such a simple question - leading to so much self examination!