Living with Hope

…never lose hope in God’s mercy. (RB80.4.74)

“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” (Norman Cousins) On this adventure God’s mercy is always available. But all too often when one door closes and another opens, we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one God has opened for us. All the great spiritual leaders in history were people who forgot the closed door and walked through the open one. Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mary, Gandhi, Lincoln, Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandella walked through that open door with a promise of “hope in God’s mercy,” and looked toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like.

This is the kind of life adventure Benedict asks of us.

Sr.Veronica,OSB