Whenever I leave the monastery overnight I always take a
paperback bible with me. This bible also serves as a collector of various notes
or messages I’ve randomly received. When I opened it this morning in the Great
Smokey Mountains I re-found a birthday gift (the reused front of a note card!)
from a deceased member of our community, Sr. Anne Beard. Her gift was a list of
seldom used words, the first being vade
mecum: walk with me. 
Over the past few weeks the community and I have been
walking with another member of the community who is walking with her own
serious health issues. It’s what we do—walk together with each other. God’s
gifts are good—even the hard ones.
Sr. Mary Catherine Wenstrup, OSB
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