With my cough and cold I have been feeling low the last week or so. However, every time I am feeling low something seems to happen to brighten my day. For example, today as I was driving back home from giving a friend a ride to see his mother a friend from Lexington Kentucky called. We caught up with each other lives and activities and just talking with her by phone made my day brighter.
Shortly after I got a home a friend came over to help me prepare dinner for our base group. We had a delicious dinner and afterwards a good session brainstorming on some ideas of how we can break the silence by Marquette University on teaching war and killing on campus. It was a brief but creative session.
So tonight after 9 when I finally cleaned up after dinner and my wife came home from her work at the library, I still had my cold and cough but was feeling okay.
There was something my friend from Lexington, Kentucky said today that stuck with me. She is very active in peace and justice issues and in the woman’s ordination movement. However, when she comes home these days she feels the need to be grounded in a community. She has many friends around the country but longs for a community to come her to. I was talking with one friend that came over tonight about how fortunate and blessed we both are having a base community and a nice circle of friends in Milwaukee.
When it is cold, you have a cough and are feeling low a community of friends, a phone call or nice dinner with friends, can pick you right up.
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