8 January.  SEE.   She sat alone in her little room, her husband had passed away just a year ago and the children were scattered all over the place.   Her biggest comforts were the other elderly people who lived in the home but she particularly valued her relationship with her sister.   They had so much of life and love to share,  both having had a great interest in plants and gardening. “Yes, God is love, I have experienced that so many times and hope I will have the strength to continue to experience that,” she wrote in her weekly email. “I don’t do much gardening now but admiring all the plants outside our windows day after day, has also made me more aware of their beauty and I was reading that God loves and embraces every creature he has made.  Isn’t that a lovely image of tender love.”       

JUDGE, reflect and share:  Scripture: Beloved let us love one another, for love is of God and he who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love, does not know God, for God is love. 1 John 4:7-8. Pope Francis:  A Prayer for our Earth. Laudato Si’.    All-powerful God, you are present in the whole universe and in the smallest of your creatures.   You embrace with your tenderness all that exists.  Pope Leo:  Love is above all a way of looking at life and a way of living it. A Church that sets no limits to love, that knows no enemies to fight but only men and women to love, is the Church that the world needs today. DT120

ACT: Decide on possible appropriate action and sharing positive thoughts on love.  Conclude with prayer