Summer is drawing to a close. The evenings are getting darker just that little bit earlier, and we now place our weather hopes in a late summer (or early autumn) burst of sunshine. Next week the schools start again, and today I start my new ministry in our hostel. And yesterday our three candidates moved to the novitiate, to their own new beginnings. Inevitably, I find myself recalling my own journey into the Society: not just the physical journey, from candidate community to novitiate, and all the intermingled emotions, hopes, fears and excitement, but the wider, deeper, interior journey which got me there in the first place.
By the end of this month, whatever the weather, the autumn colours will be all around us, above and below: red, gold, russet, amber, copper, bronze, brown and every variant hue in between.
This month I'm reading Colossians, a lovely, fairly short epistle, filled with encouragement and instruction for living fully in Christ. The quote I've chosen is from a section my bible calls "Rules for Christian Households". But these rules are gently given, and make good advice for a new hostel warden, for new novices and for anyone seeking to live their call to God and to making known God's love...
As God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness and patience. Bear with one another, and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other... Above all, clothe yourselves with love. (3: 12-14)
This month I'm reading Colossians, a lovely, fairly short epistle, filled with encouragement and instruction for living fully in Christ. The quote I've chosen is from a section my bible calls "Rules for Christian Households". But these rules are gently given, and make good advice for a new hostel warden, for new novices and for anyone seeking to live their call to God and to making known God's love...
As God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness and patience. Bear with one another, and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other... Above all, clothe yourselves with love. (3: 12-14)
Thank you Silvana, This a perfect quote for me to reflect on as I also begin a new school year with 18 students online. "The world needs love" is a quote that has surfaced often for me in many places this weekend and it is the love of Jesus that enables me to give love to my students and to all in my life. Blessings to you in your new position.
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Ah! So close to another Colossians verse I have come to love (devise of my probation)-- Put on your new self which is being renewed in love in the image of its creator. And what is it that we are invited to put on, time and again, but love...in the midst of everything...the mess and the glory alike. Good fortune to you as you embark renewed on the journey...
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