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We’re taxed, exhausted, and perhaps a little numb a year and a half past when the COVID-19 pandemic set in. Before the pandemic, the efforts of health-care workers went largely unnoticed.
Routine can have a deadening effect on our minds and souls. Take a break from work or house chores today. Make a mental note of how it changes your day.
‘We sat for a long time in Santo Stefano, long enough for a concrete sense of the passage of time to dissipate.’
It can be easy to take our animal friends for granted in our day-to-day lives. But their enriching presence is a reflection of God’s love.
We may say thank you to someone who holds a door open for us or to a waiter who brings us food in a restaurant. But what does expressing gratitude really mean?
If we continue to treat nature with disregard and disrespect, one day in the not-too-distant future, the world will become an unlivable place.
As hard as it is to cope with, whatever causes you sadness is a part of life and a hidden opportunity to get closer to God.
