Selfies vs Self Reflection
Selfies have become a popular way of taking photos. Even Pope Francis poses for selfies! Last Sunday into Monday the four of us Trini Sinsinawa sisters met as usual for our monthly meeting and, voilá, we too posed for a selfie! But really, we met to 'take' a more important kind of selfie. Being the start of a new year, we met to self reflect on the past year on a personal and communal level. We let the four pillars of Dominican life guide our musings. Our meeting was very revealing and like selfies some things we saw about ourselves, as individuals and as a community we were happy about, and some things we wished were different. Photos don't lie. They reflect back to us who we are, what we look like on the outside. I was grateful that this time of self reflection, also honestly reflected back to us how we were doing on the 'inside' in the areas of prayer, study, community and ministry. Having seen where we we...