When We Are Crushed Like Grapes, We

Pay Attention To The People God Puts In Your Path If You Want To Discern What God Is Up To In Your Life.

I Always Try To Turn My Personal Struggles Into Something Helpful For Others.

However, Community Is First Of All A Quality Of The Heart. It Grows From The Spiritual Knowledge That We Are Alive Not For Ourselves But For One Another. Community Is The Fruit Of Our Capacity To Make The Interests Of Others More Important Than Our Own. The Question, Therefore, Is Not 'how Can We Make Community?' But, 'how Can We Develop And Nurture Giving Hearts?'

Patience Asks Us To Live The Moment To The Fullest, To Be Completely Present To The Moment, To Taste The Here And Now, To Be Where We Are.

O Lord, Make This Lenten Season Different From The Other Ones. Let Me Find You Again. Amen.