Do you ever have a moment of ....
Do you ever have a moment of ‘communion’ that you know you must take notice of? It is not quite an ‘ahaa’ moment. Rather it is a sort of soul-stirring that can make one ponderous, curious, scratching one’s head and insistently aware. Easter Wednesday I kept thinking about my friend ‘Pam’. She was a thousand or so miles away from me. She lived with a debilitating and life-threatening disease. It was no longer easy for her to talk on the phone. So occasionally I would send her a phone text. Easter Wednesday morning I sent her a text writing ‘a gentle hug and my love. . .no need to reply’. The very next day I learned that she had requested an ambulance ride from the hospital back to our Motherhouse. Once ‘home’ Pam quickly and quietly breathed her last. What I failed to recognize is that Pam had in fact ‘initiated the contact', this communion. It was her life-loving spirit who had...