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Dear Sr. Mary Ellen,
In his book, Forgive Everyone Everything, Father Gregory Boyle SJ, gives us challenging advice: “There’s no denying how difficult things can be. But the way out to the place of resilience, the place of restoration, the place of not allowing your heart to be hardened by resentment, relies on one thing: forgive everyone everything.” Wow! What can possibly give us the courage and grace to do just that? Whether it's forgiving the multiple tragedies and injustices we experience on a global or national level or our personal times of heartache and misunderstanding, St. Alphonsus Liguori invites us: "Enlarge your heart." We read in Scripture: "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things"(1Corinthinans 13:7). Yes! The Beatles sang it right: "All you need is love!"
If we do this, like using Listerine mouthwash, we will feel the WHOA! of a "God-incidence" of grace that restores us.
Asking our God of Boundless Love to encourage your enlarging of your heart,
Sister Stephen Anne IHM
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