04.25.2025 | Friday in Eastertide

A few sprinkles around the Carondelet Garden on this last Friday of April.  We should see cloudy skies with a few thunderstorms developing later this afternoon.  Highs in the upper 70s with winds out of the WNW at 5 to 10 MPH.  I love the smell of rain and Spring in the air.

I am weary and sore this morning.  It has been a good week of work in the Garden.  The beauty of the Garden pierces the pain.  It reminds me of who I am and invites me to reconnect with my soul.  Our eyes "see" but don't always perceive.  I find that to be true of my relationship with the Creator.  Saint Ignatius of Loyola told his followers to find God in all things, and if we are to find God in all things, in our daily, ordinary lives, we have to quiet the world and listen.  Listen in the silence of our hearts.  It is when I am most busy, most distracted, most buried in my own pain that I fail to listen.

Luke 11:9 tells me that if I seek, I will find.  But I often do not really seek the Creator.  This week I've tried to quiet the noise.  I took solace in the Garden.  A bit of time to pray and seek and find a bit of peace.  This week I consciously turned my eyes toward the good in myself and others.  This week I searched for beauty and found a bit of solace.  

Search for the beauty.  Celebrate the good.  Live this simple, ordinary life to the fullest.  Be good to yourself and others as you make your journey.  That's all the news from here in the Carondelet Garden.