WCCM Benedictine Oblates are encouraged to read a designated portion of the Rule daily, and to write a brief, personal response. I hope that this blog will support our Oblate community in this practice. Please, keep blog entries brief and in a first-person ("I") voice. Refrain from discussing, offering an opinion, or commenting on other entries. Simply consider how a particular section of the Rule is speaking to you in your present circumstances.
Jean Vanier and Mother Teresa and Dorothy Day have all come to my attention recently, Abba. All of them at once scare me while they warm, even inflame, my cold heart. Jean’s love and actions on behalf of the developmentally disabled and Mother Teresa’s and Dorothy’s on behalf of the poorest and most “undeserving” of the poor stun and challenge me. All three mirror your love for me, Father, the tiniest flower in your garden. You invite me to embrace my own poverty, my glorious place as the littlest of your little ones. And you invite me to embrace all those other little ones I will encounter today.
Jean Vanier and Mother Teresa and Dorothy Day have all come to my attention recently, Abba. All of them at once scare me while they warm, even inflame, my cold heart. Jean’s love and actions on behalf of the developmentally disabled and Mother Teresa’s and Dorothy’s on behalf of the poorest and most “undeserving” of the poor stun and challenge me. All three mirror your love for me, Father, the tiniest flower in your garden. You invite me to embrace my own poverty, my glorious place as the littlest of your little ones. And you invite me to embrace all those other little ones I will encounter today.
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