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“A father’s communication with his many children… that is one of the most agreeable occupations of my life” 1857
This morning after much reflection and remembering I find myself filled with no little amount of gratitude, the kind of gratitude that seems to take the light into every small crack and cranny within my heart, allowing new light to shine in.
“How lovely on the mountain are the feet of him who brings good news…”
I give thanks for that day in November 45 years ago, when God chose to speak to me in my heart and then through another, helping me to choose life – it was a Saturday, grey and gloomy and yet the light of God transformed everything for me. That same light continues to transform me today.
I look at the words from my little calendar: “…God knows our needs – it enters apparently into the order of God’s Providence in our respect that we live from day to day.” (1837 Roman Diary). Today “I choose life. I choose to follow you always.”
I think of our family motto: “we are sent to evangelize the poor: the poor are evangelized.” It is real – the most real part of my life. “ I choose life by choosing to make you my life.”