We're inundated with stories of meanness, but there's a huge reservoir of hope available to us. We just have to keep our eyes open for people doing good in small, everyday-but-still-important ways.
"When I see the crucifix hanging in the center of our parish, I appreciate the reminder of the suffering we acknowledge and the love to which it points," writes Alli Bobzien.
Could it be that this was what God was asking of me: to take stock in the simple, abundant gifts all around me, delight in them like a child and find myself delighting in the Holy One right in front of me?
My 82-year-old spiritual director, Sr. Connie Kramer, had an inoperable brain tumor in the shape of a butterfly. Her spiritual guidance was present until the end. Grief calls us to not fear death, but to befriend it.
Soul Seeing: As we move through Advent and Christmas, pressed into the external realm of shopping, preparations and parties, it would benefit us to look around and learn from the elders in our communities.
