05.15.2023 | Wet Monday in Paschaltide

It's a wet Monday in Paschaltide here in the Carondelet Garden.  Our neighbor the weather girl let me know we received over six inches of rain yesterday.  Wow!  Not a record but a lot of moisture.  Unfortunately, I've been doing the basement mambo because of it.  Nothing terrible, just a normal South Saint Louis basement in an old 100-plus year-old stone and brick masterpiece.  Not complaining, I love my old house in Carondelet.

The Christian mystic Henri Nouwen once wrote:  "What finally matters is that hearts become like quiet monastic spaces where God can dwell, wherever we go and whatever we do."  As I was pushing the water around and into the drain.  It was a kind of prayer.  God was there in my frustration and, finally, in my satisfaction that the job was finished.  The work was prayer.  I need to remember that.  This simple, ordinary life in my small, little bungalow and garden in South Saint Louis is my quiet monastic space where God can dwell.  I need to remember!

Have a good Monday as you get out of the wet world of Sunday and into a new week of Paschaltide.  That's all the news from here in the Carondelet Garden.
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