How wonderful are Your works O Lord!
As a child I would sit for hours on my grandparents’ large stone steps in the backyard. Awed by the immense horizon and sky, I wondered what was behind and beyond. I was drawn to all that I could not see, filled with a deep longing.
Years later as an 8th grader, unbeknownst to my parents, I wrote to Mother Victor asking to be accepted as an aspirant to which she replied that I was too young. A year later and another request I received a positive response. Leaving home was the “giant step” that led me to the present. In the blink of an eye, the child whose only nickname was “cabrita”, “little goat”, is now celebrating her 60th Jubilee.
Love and grace have carried me through a multitude of living situations and ministries. My beloved Dominican Sisters, high school students, Holy Rosary parishioners, and clients I worked with as a psychotherapist the last 23 years of active ministry, have stretched and graced me beyond anything I could have imagined as the child on the stone steps.
A family of deep faith and unconditional love grounded me. The support and love of friends and colleagues animated and blessed me, then and now. I swim in the ocean of gratitude.
