Monday, February 13, 2012

Dear God,

How open, trusting, and flexible do we need to be in order to participate in your plan for our lives? When things begin to change after many, many years, how do we recognize your desire to reshape us and refashion the work we do for you in the world?

Those were the questions before us as we brainstormed ideas for the future of the Sisters.  Their hospitality, love, dedication, and faith have welcomed many of us in for decades.  They have helped give shape to new forms of faith, love, self differentiation, affirmation, and renewal to thousands. 

But the winds of change are blowing and we are reluctant to let go of what we have known in the past.  The sisters are growing older.  Many are dying.  There is just a hand full left of those able to make decisions.  Something must be done in order to continue the ministry of retreat before they will have to silently and prayerfully close their doors.

How open, trusting, and flexible must we be in order to be remade in your hands?

Open us
to the
deepest trust
available to us,
Gracious God.
Put us
in your hands;
make us malleable
so that
we are willing
to be remade.

Love, Andrea