Benedict speaks today on the importance of the community coming together to offer council to the prior or prioress and to one another. We must be willing and able to fully listen to those whom our decisions affect. To listen to those around us with whom we live.
Sister Joanne observes these collective life experiences do count – remarking that wisdom is simply it's distillation.
This is a most interesting idea – what if the knowledge we have gained over the course of our collective lives could be catalogued and index so that all of our experiences could be easily referenced. There is so much truth, so much to be gained from the collective wisdom of the community that surround us every day. This is such a simple truth.
Teach us Lord to open our ears and our hearts
to our community – to the wisdom
that surrounds us on every side.
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