Thursday morning was spent with the staff of the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center at KU, where I serve as Associate Director alongside my responsiblities with vocations for the Archdiocese. It was a brief but fruitful retreat. Sr. Debbie Li's meditation on the placing of the papyrus basket containing the baby Moses into the Nile even before the oppression of the Israelites at the hands of the Egyptians worsened, shows how God takes care of us in small ways and prepares for our good, even when we do not perceive it. She meditated further on how the exodus through the desert may have challenged the Israelite people, and caused them to grumble, that the result was that they were forged by God into a nation once again. The exodus erased the tribal affiliations of the Israelites, and prepared them to enter into the promised land together. So too in the Church is can be the trials we endure together than can prepare us for the good things to come, good things that are meant for us together, as Christ's body, the Church, moreso than for individuals. The sisters treated us to a great pasta lunch and homemade cake afterwards - the spiritual feeding made me want to return to work right away - the physical feeding, which I also greatly enjoyed. Made me want to take a nap!
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