Life Is A Blessing – Christine Valters Paintner

“Br. David [Steidnl-Rast, O.S.B.) was a young Austrian teenager during World War II. He witnessed much destruction and death. He never expected to survive the war. And so when he did, he was faced with a choice: to continue to live in fear of death or to see each moment of life as a blessing to be seized and appreciated. We, too, have that same choice each moment. Will we miss the blessings or will we see, and be, the blessing?”

— John Valters Paintner, MTS The Soul’s Slow Ripening: 12 Celtic Practices for Seeking the Sacred