Earth Links.
And so many others from the Capital Heights
Presbyterian Church/ 10:30 Catholic Community to Le Central, the "affordable French
restaurant". I knew in its infancy and where Robert and Betsy
Tournier have hung one of my embroideries. I had cocoa and cookies there with
some new friends after a trip in a van to see Christmas lights in Denver
with Earthlinks.
Then a trip to Portland, OR for a week before flying
to Chicago on Christmas Day with Oregon daughters Ann
and Regna so we could be present with Susan from Texas
and Stephen from Indiana for Gail's marriage to Paul
on December 27. Now I am in Carmel, IN sharing these
high points of December with you.
There are loved ones who continue to wonder at my life
style. PJ Manion, SL wrote recently, "You are a
pilgrim person." There are days when exhaustion is a
major element BUT I am enlivened by this weaving from
place to place, beloveds to beloveds, as I continue to
ponder what I may be called to do next.
The THANK-YOU this month is to Carolyn and Teo
Prinster of Glenwood Springs, CO who have provided all
kinds of loving support over many years. The poem for
this month is Maggie O'Connor's from Mankato, MN. The
Calendar will indicate January will be "less
traveled". For the third January in a row, I offer up
"Three Men" as the story. It is of those Wise Men
following a star to find a Child and surely reflects
some portions of my own journeying.
May 2002 hold sufficient good parts to to balance the
hard parts in our lives and on this lovely, wounded
planet. Surely one of the good parts of this new year
is the Pope's invitation to representatives of the
world's religions to come to Assisi on January 24 to
pray for peace. Please add your prayers, your good
thoughts, to theirs. "In these troubled times, may
the whole human family find true and lasting peace,
born of the marriage of justice and mercy."
with Love,
Justine