My heart and soul are weary.

While the weather is stunning and the beauty of creation touches me deeply, my heart still aches.

While opportunities for new ministries, new learnings, and new gifts of God’s love and wonder are all around me, I am still drained.

The Sisters of Our Lady of Grace Monastery have reflected God’s love and have nurtured my soul by their faithfulness to prayer and hospitality. They have prayed with me and for me. I had long been looking forward to a now cancelled clergy retreat there in July.

The video below, a gift from the Sisters of Our Lady of Grace, slowed me down, warmed my heart and touched my weary soul. It reminds me that prayer and hospitality are powerful gifts in and off themselves. We don’t need to do everything and solve every problem. Perhaps it is enough to open our hearts to God in prayer and then take the next step with love. God is with us, inviting us to rest and work, play and pray in the love and shelter of God.

Please join me in praying with and for the Sisters of Our Lady of Grace.