“The marks life leaves on everything it touches transform perfection into wholeness. Older, wiser cultures choose to claim this wholeness in the things that they create.
In Japan, Zen gardeners purposefully leave a fat dandelion in the midst of the exquisite, ritually precise patterns of the meditation garden.
In Iran, even the most skilled of rug weavers includes an intentional error, the “Persian Flaw,” in the magnificence of a Tabriz or Qashqai carpet…and Native Americans wove a broken bead, the “spirit bead,” into every beaded masterpiece.
Nothing that has a soul is perfect.
When life weaves a spirit bead into your very fabric, you may stumble upon a wholeness greater than you had dreamed possible before.”
[From: Rachel Naomi Remen, My Grandfather’s Blessings]
Tomorrow we begin anew Lent, the time for a deep look into our life and how we live it. The COVID 19 Pandemic continues to interrupt our daily existence, Lent 2021 presents us with our second COIVD time of introspection.
This Lent focus on praying the sign of the cross, remembering that each time we bless ourselves: “In the name of the Father, And of the Son, And of the Holy Spirit, Amen” we receive God’s blessing, and we commit once again to follow the God who created us.
Tomorrow we will explore the Sign of the Cross in more detail.
Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Saint Andre Bessette intercede for us.
May God Be Praised!
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