This is a day late for Earth Day. But I think these words of Sister Mary Kownacki, below, state the significance of that day and how we should venerate the boundless beauty of our planet in the mundane and the grand, along with the inherent worth of all its inhabitants. The very fact that we are here is the greatest gift we could receive. Earth Day should help us realize the duty we have to protect and preserve this precious home.
"There's the beauty and wonder of it:
to discover the extraordinary in the ordinary.
If you look, really look, at anything, even one pigeon,
you will fall on your knees before its beauty.
The same holds true for each person in the soup kitchen line.
As one definition of contemplation attests,
" It's a matter of taking a long, loving look at the real." "
Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB
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