My latest contribution to the conversation has been published over at Global Sisters Report: The Hour for ‘Our’ is Now
Our Father. Our daily bread. Forgive us as we forgive. Lead us. Deliver us.
This prayer that for decades I have said desperately at my most lonely hours calls us to be community. It is not a prayer to my Father for my daily bread and my forgiveness or deliverance. It is a prayer for the whole. As I have prayed this prayer anew in these days, I haven’t been able to get this sense of the collective out of my heart and mind. The hour for “our” is now. …
What would happen, I wonder, if instead of spreading negative energy in our conversations that contribute to the toxic levels of our current civic discourse, we practiced loving even those bits of the whole we struggle with? Speaking the truth in love, standing in solidarity in love, acting for justice in love.
Maybe this would lead us to deliverance, provide our nourishment and sustain us, help us to listen deeply for that which binds us together, no matter how small, in the sea of division.
Visit Global Sisters Report to read the whole reflection.
At the Corner of Susan and St. Joseph 
Hello Sister, I just read your article and we need to tackle the World´s arms business if we are to live together in peace.Our personal spirituality has to spill over to the whole world.We pray for peace a lot yet as humanity we have a long way to go. To confront multinationals is not an easy task. Slainte.
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