Spiritual Ruminations: A New Year…

Welcome to 2017!

I know it may sound trite, but each year takes wing a bit more quickly than the last.

I’ve been holiday-ing and resting up for what looks to be a very strenuous year on a variety of fronts. Like many of you, I have reviewed the past year and have made mental lists of what I hope to accomplish in 2017. But as I took all of it to prayer these last evenings, the prevailing message was this: do what you do with great love and compassion.

Not very sexy, as they say, but strong, and to the point.

I can live with that type of resolution.

The challenges to be met with great love and compassion are many:

• Feeding the hungry
• Clothing the naked
• Sheltering the homeless
• Freeing the imprisoned and oppressed
• Burying the dead
• Relieving the thirst of so many
• Visiting the sick

These are…