Providence Did Provide
Our congregation is fond of the saying: “Providence can provide, Providence did provide, Providence will provide.” Recently I came to appreciate this saying in an unexpected way, when a group of other young sisters and I participated in a half marathon. Although we prepared together by designing t-shirts for our “nun run” (Team 13.nun… get it??) and having a pasta party the night before, we were all planning to run at different paces. I had never run a half marathon without a buddy before and wasn’t thrilled about running alone. As I found my place in the starting corral on race morning, I heard someone call my name. I turned around to see a guy I had met almost five years ago at an orientation for our international volunteer programs. We had spent two weeks together and gone off to our respective countries of service and hadn’t seen each other since. “So, what are you up to these days?” I asked him. “I’m a Jesuit now,” he said. “Ho...