Reflections

“Hope is holding a creative tension between what is and what could and should be, each day doing something to narrow the distance between the two.

“If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.

“In biology, every ‘I’ has been enabled by a ‘we.

“Consider the lilies of the field, my friend — their beauty as well as their impermanence.

“To experience the landscape as a theophany is to take seriously the way the divine can be revealed through nature and through created things.

“At some point in life, the world’s beauty becomes enough.

People say that walking on water is a miracle, but to me, walking peacefully on the Earth is the real miracle.

Sr. Patricia Bruno, OP

“God is not too hard to believe in.