Perfect Beginning

image from turnbacktogod.com

A perfect picture to begin this new blog...I love the image of the MIRROR and how I love to REFLECT and muse on the Lord! His beautiful Creation (nature, art and especially MUSIC), His everlasting LOVE for us (through the Eucharist, each other and the marvelous ways He looks after us!) are ever inspiring to me.


I'd like this to be a place where I can share part of my journey with you.  I am currently discerning a call to religious life as a Franciscan Sister of Christian Charity (http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/).  I will be accepted as a postulant into their community in August 2012.  The coming of this new step in my life has inspired me to get serious about creating a blog, a place where those who love and support me can keep in touch with my journey and a place to be acquainted with new friends too!

I love this quote from St.Clare of Assisi:

Place your mind in the mirror of eternity;

Place your soul in the splendor of glory;

Place your heart in the figure of the divine substance;

And, through contemplation, transform your entire being into the one image of the Divine One Himself,

so that you, yourself may also experience what his friends experience when they taste the hidden sweetness that God alone has kept from the beginning for those who love Him.

- from the Third Letter of St. Clare to Agnes of Prague


There's so much to glean and appreciate from this quote...I just really love the idea of transforming into the image of the Divine.  On my most recent retreat to the Holy Family Convent we watched a video of a Fr. Michael speaking on how when we contemplate the Cross, we are not waiting to see our own face in the face of Jesus but rather we are waiting for ourselves to be transformed and changed into the likeness of Christ. THEN we go forth as His presence to a world that most desperately needs Him.  How Beautiful!!