breaking down/building up. the process continues.



"Any time we are brought low, left with a feeling of helplessness, caught in our own inadequacies or pushed out of our comfort zone, the impurities in us are burned away so the best in us can come forth...This process is never one we choose."
Sr. Joyce Rupp, O.S.M.

"So is the end of everyone who forgets God, and so shall the hope of the godless man perish. His confidence is but a gossamer thread and his trust is but a spider's web. He shall rely upon his family, but it shall not endure. He is full of sap before sunrise, and beyond his garden his shoots go forth; about a heap of stones are his roots entwined; among the rocks he takes hold. Yet if one tears him from his place, it will disown him: 'I have never seen you!'. Behold, God will not cast away the upright; neither will he take the hand of the wicked. Once more he will fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with rejoicing."
Job 8: 13-19, 21