An Opportunity to Awaken….
All over the world people are looking at their neighbors in a new way. All over the world people are waking up to a new reality. To how big we really are. To how little control we really have. To what really matters. To Love.
So we pray and we remember that yes, there is fear, but there does not have to be hate. Yes there is isolation, but there does not have to be loneliness. Yes there is panic buying, but there does not have to be meanness. Yes there is sickness, but there does not have to be disease of the soul. Yes there is even death, but there can always be a rebirth of love. Wake to the choices you make as to how to live now.
Today… breathe. Listen, behind the factory noises of your panic, the birds are singing again. The sky is clearing, Spring is coming, and we are always encompassed by LOVE. Open the windows of your soul, and though you may not be able to touch across the empty square… SING!
Fr Richard Hendrick, OFM
