Happy Birthday, Minerva

Happy Birthday, Minerva

Now and then a little thing here and there appears in life that a dear friend once described as “a God winking at me gift.” A thing perhaps you know you want but for which you haven’t the time to dwell upon, or the focus to pray. But God notices anyway and cares...

“The best metaphor I know is that of a flower blooming — of nature’s Epiphany — an image I know Caryll Houselander was fond of. I think it was Houselander who said, “Whatever is loving in man and whatever is lovable in man is Christ in man.” I take this to mean that the more love and the less lust in us, the more we cease to obscure Christ and instead reveal Him, in whose image we are made.
I don’t mean to suggest it’s been easy, just simple: Our Lord endured worse than any of us and promised us that we have to take up a heavy cross each day.”

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