The Los Angeles Province Fall DESIGNS magazine will be in the mail soon! The theme this season is “The Power of the Present Moment.”
Many of our sisters and associates sent in beautiful reflections of their experience with how to get into the present moment. We were not able to fit all these pearls of wisdom in the magazine, so we are highlighting them here.
This one is from Sister Barbara Sullivan, CSJ:
I am not the person who should be writing a reflection on the Present Moment. For way too many years I lived in the “don’t run ahead of grace” mode. Now that I am 88 I am not running ahead of anything.
I am delighting in not having a full schedule for the day. Even with no plans the day fills with life.
I am noticing the gentle breeze outside my window.
When I was in Leadership in St. Louis we often had difficult decisions to make. One time we scheduled a meeting to decide a difficult decision. Five meetings later we still needed the missing piece. Kitty learned what we needed to know at a pizza party. Important things happen in present moments and you can’t schedule them. Sometimes there are several present moments before one reaches a conclusion.
I find the Present Moment tells me I can let go and trust that what I need will be given.
~Sister Barbara Sullivan
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