Our darkness is only one part of who we are, not the whole. We must be willing to see ourselves the way God sees us. We must be willing to embrace our identity as beloved.
From A Nun's Life podcasts - Why does a loving God allow suffering? As one commenter says, "We've been asking these questions since we were first conscious and probably a little bit before that."
The Life - Our sister panelists delved deep this month as they pondered this question: How has my image of God or Jesus changed throughout my spiritual life?
From A Nun's Life podcasts - In this clip from a live episode of "Ask Sister," Sister Maxine and Sister Julie talk about novenas, scapulars and how such Catholic devotionals can be a way to get closer to God.
It seemed like an apt thing for a spiritual son of St. Teresa of Ávila to say, "The history of the church has been made by you, women, and while you suffered." It still was a surprising thing for me to hear from a man at the ambo.
From A Nun's Life podcasts – Sure, you could try to do nothing that would require forgiveness. Or you could embrace forgiving and being forgiven as a path to freedom.
