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But we can all think about this: compared to the One who created the universe, we are all children. 'I can't answer those questions for you,' Sister Priscilla finally said, looking right at Helen. We are told that God only allows to happen to us what is for our own good, but what about when bad things happen? How could that possibly be for our good?'

This is where the seed is planted for Helen to become a nun. In this quote, Helen crystallizes what she wants to get out of life: she wants to live with the same intentionality and awareness that Sister Priscilla does. She made divine things seem human, and human things seem divine. On the other hand, she could talk about faith in a way that made it sound like common sense. She turned even the most ordinary tasks, like pulling maps down or emptying the pencil sharpener, into sacraments. The main even was under way time as a measurement of action.Īnd her actions were all beautiful. While Helen experienced time as the measurement of waiting-waiting for her mother to return, waiting for her life to begin-for Sister Priscilla, all waiting seemed to be over. 'Time seemed at Sister Priscilla's disposal. Consequently, they encourage her to go visit a doctor. In addition, this is the first time that her fellow-Sisters see the suffering that accompanies her ecstatic vision. Words and phrases like fracture, and splintered like broken grass.

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In this ecstatic vision Salzman connects (for the first time) the immensity of Sister John's visions with the immensity of the pain of her headache by using language full of painful imagery. Swept my pain away, swept everything away She splintered like broken glass, she became all edges and points and she was sure this had to be death, it had to be the end of everything, then her suffering blinked off. It adds another layer of responsibility to Sister John's dilemma whether or not to go through with the surgery to take out the tumor. Thanks to the funds that came from her book based on her visions, the monastery was able to provide for itself. This quote provides a context for just how widely Sister John's ecstatic visions affected the whole monastery. 'Talent comes from God, but it only bears fruit through hard work.' Sister Elizabeth and Sister John, p.

'Don't keep your light under a bushel,' Sister Elizabeth advised. 'None of it is my doing,' Sister John protested when the others congratulated her. Joseph traditionally depended on the sale of homemade jellies, greeting cards, and communion wafers to meet expenses, but its economic future had brightened considerably since Sister John discovered her gift for writing. We'll definitely be able to replace the roof this year.' ''Sister John is too modest to mention this, but I'm going to embarrass her anyway: her book is going into another printing.

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