Off to Boston/Book to Read

Well, I'm "leaving on a jet plane" (God willing, it's a jet!) and heading for Boston for a few days, just to give a presentation on the Founder to my sisters. Meanwhile, I wanted to tell you about a book I just read. I found it on the cart of books we were pulling off the shelves to go on clearance. (We have some books that have been around waiting like that since 1999. Not many, but enough to be a bit scary. You wouldn't believe the number of books that is being cleared away this time--all the "old" stuff from 1999-2003.) This book was from 2003. One of those undiscovered little treasures of a book, entitled "Believe that I am Here." It is from the notebook of a French woman involved in social ministry in Chartres. I wonder what it is with Jesus and French women. (Hey, Jesus, I'm about one third French, too, remember?!)Anyway, she records her conversations with Jesus, mostly in a Eucharistic context. It is sort of like "He and I," in which Jesus allows her a conscious awareness of his "take" on things in her life, everyday life, and the bottom line is "I am here, really  here, with you always and I want to live in  you so that life becomes a duet we play." This matches our spirituality exactly: Eucharistic and ordered to "Christ lives in me." So it was an inspiration, showing in a sense what our Founder's own insight and spirituality was, except that he stated it in his own way and was extremely circumspect about the more mystical side of his experience, although a few things slipped out here and there. Unfortunate, because if he had been more open about those things,  he would have a bigger audience today! People are always grabbing up books on mystical experience. Like this one, except somehow they missed it. Lucky me!