01.15.2025 | Wednesday in Ordinary Time

It is sunny and frigid on this mid-month Ordinary Wednesday in south Saint Louis.  We should hit 30-degrees by this afternoon.  The good news is we will be seeing a bit of a warmup over the next couple of days.  A welcome relief from the snow, ice and cold!  Maybe we can get the Doodle Dog a walk or two.  

I have been suffering from an upper respiratory infection for the past few weeks, and I must admit it is starting to wear on me a bit.  I heard my neighbor's dog outside barking at the moon.  My sweet neighbor says he's just an old man yelling at nothing.  I laughed because I feel that way myself.  An old man just wanting to walk outside and scream a bit.  Some days I feel as if I am one headline away from becoming King Lear, raging into the storm!

The world seems to be in so much trouble.  The patterns of daily life are constantly changing in ways I don't really welcome or even understand.  Yet, there is light and goodness bursting forth in the darkest places, in the tiniest nooks and crannies.  I keep looking every day until I find them.  It is what gives me hope and what keeps me sane.  

All endings are also beginnings.  This is what I keep telling myself over and over and over again.  The sun will set tonight, but it will rise again in the morning.  Spring will come.  Keep the faith, look for the goodness and share the hope.  Keep loving even when we don't feel very lovable.  That's all the news from here in the Carondelet Garden.