A dear couple, friends of Mount St. Mary House of Prayer for years, brought us a beautiful bouquet of flowers for Easter. Since Sr. Theresina's back has been bothering her, she hasn't been down to the House of Prayer for a couple of weeks -- and she is our official flower-arranger (and taker-carer!).
I knew enough to cut the stems before putting them in water, and so I started, one stem at a time. But, hey! how about doing all of them at once?! And so I tried -- to no avail. The scissors were just not sharp enough, or I was just not strong enough. It was back to cutting them one at a time. And as I did, I thought: one at a time; one day at a time; one step at a time. That works! One at a time works! When I try to do more than that, my energy is sapped. A graced lesson from the flowers.
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