Our Mourning and Our Deep Gladness
Recently, our
household, two sisters and two women, who hope to become associates, circled together for a study session. Reading,
" Being Dominican and Renewing the Face of the Earth" by our sister,
Kaye Ash, started the conversation. A question from it stays with me: " Do
our mourning and our deep gladness meet our world's deep hunger?"
So many
things to mourn! What are you mourning?
Racism in the aftermath of Michael Brown? Denial of climate change? Indifference to mass incarceration? (those are
some of mine).
What a gift
to be able to share questions!
What a
blessing to be able to set aside time to study!
No doubt
each of us was born to study or else why would one of a child's first words be
"why?" My questions become
more complex and more necessary as I seek not only to know why but also to know how
to make a difference. Study helps me to
see a pathway through my questions, and also to frame new ones.
Dominican
women create community in which we can
share insights and encourage one another to ask questions that will help us go
deeper. Our study can help us go further in creating a just
world.
It is with
deep gladness that I live in a house of STUDY.
What are
your questions? Do you seek companions to share ideas and answers? You might
find Dominicans and spend an hour, a day or a lifetime.
Joan Duerst,
OP
Monona, WI
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