Tenderness is not a question of emotion or sentiment: it is the experience of feeling loved and welcomed even in our poverty and misery, and thus transformed by God's love. #GeneralAudience
Now that I am an adult, with my own kids, I miss my mum in a new way. I want to ask how she had energy to do all the things I remember her doing. If I was a difficult child. How my childhood was for her. I want to ask adult questions. She went when I was 25. Miss her.
God does not come in extraordinary events, but works amid the apparent monotony of our daily life, in the frequently dull rhythm of our activities, in the little things that, working with tenacity and humility, we achieve in our efforts to do his will.