Change

When I first entered the Sisters of Mercy, Sr. Mary George, in charge of us Postulants, used to always say around visiting day that it was not a compliment if someone in our family told us "You haven't changed a bit." I remember that well, because I cringed when someone in my family said that exact thing when they came for the first visiting day! I'm hoping it was because they were happy I hadn't changed in a negative way (maybe they thought I would become "holier than thou" or a "holy roller" or - worse still - "very serious"!!!).

Today I read in The Practical Sayings of Catherine McAuley:
"Even our nearest and dearest friends expect to find a change in us after we have embraced this state of life: they look for something different from themselves. Let us never give them cause to say, "she is not in the least changed; she is just the same as she was in the world."

From all I've read about the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, change happens! I'll be interested in seeing what shape these changes take in my life.