A random thought

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At one end of life, avus, who is old enough to be my father, works like a demon to help rehabilitate his wife, who has suffered a terrible accident, and is rewarded by a slow but constant improvement, till he is certain that the woman he married is back. At the other, photosynthesis, who is young enough to be my daughter, and who has a had a life in which

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When I was discerning a call to the cloistered life, I spent much time contemplating the sacrifices God may have called me to make. The idea of leaving the world permanently in order to seek a life of prayer inside the cloister frightened me a little, and I was anxious about how my family would react. God gave me an image in my mind of three crosses: one represented my life inside the cloister, another represented a life as a wife/mother and another represented the single, celibate life in the midst of the world. I tried to pick up the different crosses, but I couldn't do it on my own. I simply wasn't strong enough. But the grace of God enables us to carry the crosses He gives us, and it guides us towards the ultimate goal of union with God in heaven.

Without God, there's no way I'd be happy in marriage. Human reason and the capacity for human love only go so far. I'm certain that without the graces of the Sacrament of Marriage, Aaron & I would drive each other insane. But God is the source of love, and as long as we both abide in God, the fire of charity will never go out.

Similarly, as long as you have God as the center of your life, there is no failure, only the Will of God, which is union with Him forever.