Saturday, third week of Lent
A friend framed a beautiful picture of a nun in pink bathrobe, taken just weeks before she died; I'm pretty sure she had one bathrobe. My mind rummages around in my closet and off the top of my head I count four: the fluffy pink one, the blue silk one- a present from my sister-in-law purchased while she was in China, another pink floral print given to me at the birth of our fourth child, and a long thin robe I have worn once.
Sister Mary Anne was hilarious- if you even mentioned that you liked something she would simply say, "You can have it." I hoard things; I am unsure I have enough. True confession.
Can you join me in looking at your life, your closet, your heart and asking what you can give?
Medicine from Sacred Writing:
"Disperse, therefore, that you may not lose; keep not, that you may keep; lay out, that you may save; spend, that you may gain. If your treasures are to be hoarded, do not you hoard them, for you will surely cast them away; but entrust them to God, for then no man makes a spoil of them." St Chrysostom Gospel of Matthew Homily V.9 NPNF1; 10.35
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