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Welcome to Metta, a podcast with the Sisters of Life. We invite you to join us for conversation, looking at life through the lens of love. You are loved. You are made in God's image, and your life matters. Let's talk about it.
Hello to everyone else. Welcome back to Let Love Podcast. Joy to be with you. It's a gift. Gosh, how was your day, Sister?
It was good. It's prayer day today, so not a good prayer. You prayed silence. Excellent. You know, I always find I pray better. Well, it was raining all day today, so it really was a nice day too. You kind of stay inside, and I don't know, somehow it just draws you into a little harbor of prayer that helps you to settle deep, I think. So, although I love the sunny days, too, of course. Doesn't a man?
Well, you know, I was thinking, Sister, just coming into this next episode, we're gonna talk about letting love cherish us, right? But I really had a good time. It, forgive me for being nostalgic, it threw me right back to my childhood, and I started thinking about those things that I cherished deeply as a child. I wonder, I imagine everyone has these things. All right, that there's always... Did you have any of these things?
No, it's totally. Well, I mean, just doesn't leave a couple. I, I did cherish. I had, um, my cousin Dan and given me a dolly with red hair, but Charlie. But I named it Redheaded Dolly. She said I liked it 'cause it looked like me 'cause I had red hair. Hmm. So I put it in my sock drawer. Me, both sit in the sock drawer together, my redheaded dolly and I. And it was, it really wasn't great pictures of that. I really cherish that family reading time when we read like The Lord of the Rings together. Okay. Well, one person would read it. Dad would read it. All gather. It was really epic and fun. And actually, another experience I remember, I really, it's something I wanted to cherish. I really wanted wooden flowers to decorate my invisible house with. Okay. Like, for maybe, four maybe. Yeah. And so we went to go sit on Santa Claus's knee and I asked for wooden flowers. My sister asked for eggs. And Santa Claus called my parents over because he was concerned. Yeah, I do that. You mentioned four years old because those are all the memories I have of this concept of cherishing something. I think it all dawns at that age or something because that's those are the ages. What immediately springs to mind? Three things. I had a bunny. Money. Funny t-shirts I really loved. I loved it so much. They were every day. Until my mom, I think she knew it was time that shirt was retired. And one time, it just didn't come back among the clean clothes. And I think she made, at the time, it was, I was heartbroken. As I really did cherish that t-shirt. But I think Mom knows and I know. I think her for that. She cherished me. And my twin sister got, I think my big brother was trying to perhaps tease a bit and got me and my twin sister when we're four at Christmas. He got us huge monsters. They were almost, they're stuffed, stuffed animal monsters. And they were the ugliest, biggest things. They were print, it was almost bigger than I was. But the joke totally backfired. My sister and I loved these monsters and we cherished these monsters. We took care of them and they took care of us. And, and so I loved my monster. And then I think most of all, I loved sitting next to my grandmother and and playing with her rings. I just loved it. She had always beautiful, you know, rings on her hands. And, and just loved holding her hand and just sitting next to Grandma. It was, I cherished that deeply.
You know, it's, it's well and it's heartwarming to remember. Mm-hmm. It brings you right back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What's important to you? Amen. Yeah. What a night. I think it's, yeah, it kind of brings us into what we want to look at today. Yeah. Let love cherish you. Hmm. Yeah. That's like, there's a lot to unpack there. Like, what is that? How do we do that? How, how do we go about that? What does that mean? What does it mean?
Well, gosh, should we, um, maybe I could kick us off with a prayer? This is the best way to start meeting. We can open it up. What do you think?
Sounds great. Well, amen. Blessed Mother, we just ask that you draw us into your Immaculate Heart, the fullness of grace to be found there, into your own yes to the Father's love and His will and plans for you, into your own prayer and contemplation. That you help us to see and to know your Son and His love for us with greater depth throughout this day and this time. And we just ask for your prayers in a very special way. Blessed Mother, be a mother to us now as we say, Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Our Lady of Grace, pray for us. Amen.
Um, so I loved your question. Thanks. I thought it was a good question to deepen the definition of cherishing. Yeah. What is it? Like, what does it mean? Yeah. Well, I took some, I took a moment because initially it's like, yeah, I just wanted to open this thing up on a, yeah, what is to cherish me? Because I think it can get pigeonholed into, mm-hmm, at least in my world, a little bit. Well, I looked it up in the dictionary. Great place. And here's what is that. It's actually stunningly universal and wonderful. Well, as one might expect. But it means, among other things, to protect and care for someone lovingly. Synonyms, worth words like love, revere, esteem, protect, be devoted to, care for, mm-hmm, admire, look after, shelter, keep safe, treasure, value. Hmm. Pretty universal. Yeah. It really opens it up. Mm-hmm. Huh. And it warms up the heart. It does, because we all want that. Yeah. But I think to its opposite. Yeah. I mean, the opposite, you think about, you know, the opposite of cherish is to be, you know, to, to be neglected. Mm-hmm. More disrespected. You know, to be abandoned. Hmm. Or irreverenced. You know, and it makes me think of what Pope Francis called the throwaway culture. You know, throwaway culture is something worth nothing is cherished. I'm forcing good in it in itself, right? To cherish something's to see this is good in itself. And this kind of like this, yeah, this posture of heart. I think now there's a lot of kind of irreverence, a lot of throwing away. And it's like we don't even know how to cherish things anymore, often, let alone people. So I, yeah, it's really something.
Well, let alone each other. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's true. You know, this, we live in a time where, yeah, it can be easy. We can be really easy to kind of move on to the next thing or forget the value of the person in front of you. You know, placing doing over being, rather than valuing that being over doing, right? About utilitarian life. Interesting. Yeah. You can feel it. Like you can feel the contrast in your heart. Yeah. It's like, oh, I am, I want that. I don't know. Gosh, but if they need to even think like, you know, like just an example, but like we talked about our most cherished childhood things, but like right now, like even just to throw this question out to everybody listening, but like, what's your, your most cherished treasure? Like, if your house was burning, hmm, and you had to exit, what would you grab? Hmm. What would you try to save? You know, it's a great, it's a great, like, bring you back to your, your kind of gut question, you know? Yeah. I love thinking about it. Mm-hmm. I love imagining myself. Mm-hmm. And I actually hope I'd be true. Yeah. I think, is it right? The people, faces, the Blessed Sacrament. You know, here we live in a convent. Um, it's where I go first. Yeah. Stuff doesn't matter. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. It's a good examine. Good examination. It's fun. It's good to think about. Yeah.
My goodness. Well, it's, it's, yeah, it seems to me, yeah, this is, it's deep in our hearts. It's inscribed there. The desire, I think, of every heart is to be cherished. When I think about it, it's, um, I can rest in that love. I love that's cherishing me. That's where I can rest, right? Where one can rest in the reality they're good, worthy, they have value. You know, resting in a love that speaks to us that we're worth protecting. Mm-hmm. And upholding. I don't know. A funny example kind of comes to mind. My twin sister got married. And so before, so we had the marriage, and then the following days, they celebrated. If it was a family, and it was the day after they got married. And I was so edified and so moved by my brother-in-law because he went to the cooler, and they were about to take off on a road trip, and there was one Diet Coke left amidst regular Coke. And they both loved Diet Coke. And it was watching it. He actually, it was his, his narrative. Everything that was going through his head was expressed verbally. And it was, you know, I can't do the voice of my brother-in-law, but it went something like, oh man, there's only one Diet Coke. I love Diet Coke, but my wife likes Diet Coke. I will drink the regular Coke so she can have the Diet Coke. And I mean, I'm just standing to the side. I'm watching this unfold. Interiorly, I'm like cheering, cheering. And I'm like, you know what? That, I was, I was actually my heart was soaring at that moment 'cause I'm like, you know, that is the love I want for my sister. I want a man who's gonna make the little sacrifices to uphold her, just speak to her of her value and her goodness and her worth. And such a small example, but I think it, it brings into life the reality that it's what we do in the little things that speak this very big and wonderful truth. Yeah. And we're given the little things to reveal it. It's really true. It's really true.
It makes me think about an understory I heard also a marriage story, but this couple that had been married years, 40, 50 years. She had Alzheimer's. He didn't. And he said, he said a little video on it. You can look it up. I wish I could give you the URL, but I forget. Anyway, somewhere else, somewhere out there. But she, he said, it's an honor to care for her. She's looked after me my whole life, and it's an honor to care for her. So he, like, you know, brush her hair, dress her, feed her. You know, he built this special bike so that she could sit in the front of the bikes. They always liked to bike together. And so he could, he could bike her. You know, he belts it. He, um, he'd glued a tiara to her helmet. Oh, because she's whose queen. It was like, but just like you're saying, like the little things. And it's done. He cherished her like she was. And she didn't even understand everything that he was doing for her, you know? And I was just like, that, it's so moving. Yeah. To be cherished. To be cherished. Yeah. Isn't that stunning? Yeah. It's really beautiful. Good gosh. Words happen. It is something essential. It's super essential. Essential. But it, the reality is, I think, and even when I, I think it took me, it takes time sometimes. Mm-hmm. I think to warm up to this concept because I think on the other hand, and we mentioned this, we live in a time in a culture, and you know, we're wounded as much as we want to love each other perfectly. Um, well, we're always gonna fall short on this side of the veil. Yeah. And I think there is a lot, many who might have maybe exasperated trying to find this love, even an inkling, even a taste. People who would, I mean, I think kind of give up your on finding this love. I think to be real, we've probably all been very disappointed. Yeah. In many moments, you know, throughout our lives by those who were perhaps kind of entrusted with the task of upholding us or speaking to us of our goodness and our worth and our value. Hmm. Maybe we've been let down. And I think it can, it can, it can lead us to write it off, you know? That's it. It's a fairy tale. All right. That's for, that's for princes and princesses. Yeah. And I think that's real. And I think we're living in a time where it can be really a courageous act to dare to believe in this love. That's really true. Like, you know, how could it, how could it exist? So make a question in so many hearts, you know? And it's, how could it exist for me? You know? And, and we don't, like you're saying, too, it's like we, a lot of us or in our lives, we have experience, but we haven't been cherished. We don't know what it is to be cherished. It, it makes me think of this, this phenomenon in orphanages in Romania, maybe other places too. But if you go into one of these orphanages, it's silent. No crying, no laughing, no sound of children. But they're all there, lying in their cribs. And they've, the reason it's a, they've learned not to cry because they know even if they do, no one will ever come for them. And kind of, you're saying, it really, I appreciate what you're saying a lot because it makes me think of this is how we can be. We've been so wounded or let down in love or haven't been cherished that we've stopped hoping, even, or believing it's possible. You know? And what our sorrow. Yeah. Sorrow. And yet, how do we, how do we begin to open our hearts to this? Where do we find it truly? You know, in the day-to-day life? And yet, my inclination is the first stop is spiritually. Mm-hmm. That this, this is a gift that has been given in and through our Father God, the Father, in through our baptism. You know, that we're His beloved sons and daughters. And this is part of our inheritance, actually, this, this love that is cherishing. Hmm. Always, all the time. I think we have an incredible security here as Christians. I think we're often exiled from it from my experiences that we've had or whatever else, whatever ideas we pick up, whether that's in the culture or whatever. And I think, okay, I'm gonna be, I mean, if I consult my own experience and others, there's an unlikely source of this all, actually. I dare say to know God's cherishing love. Mm-hmm. We have to go to the cross. Yeah. Yeah. What do you think?
I think it's true. I think it's true. Right? And it's like, and I think I thought the Father's heart aches us to know it. And so he gives us, he brings us to Jesus on the cross. You know, it makes me think, just is that kind of an image in order to even understand the cross a little bit more? But like in ancient Israel, and in to some extent, I think in modern times, there's a ceremony called the redemption ceremony. Mm-hmm. Which was where the father would bring his newborn, newborn child, newborn son, to the elder of the synagogue. And the elder would take the child and say, "Do you claim this child as your own?" Mm-hmm. And the father would say, "Yes." And then the, the elder would reach out his hand and say, "Then pay the price." And the father would have to put into his hand a certain amount of money in order to receive his child back. So every son of Israel knew that he had been redeemed, literally ransomed by his father. That he was cherished. He was esteemed. He was honored by his father. Wow. You know? And it's like, wow. And that brings us to the cross. Brings us to the crime. Because that is our redemption. Well, had been purchased at a price. Wow. You know? Yeah. I mean, and if you, well, and placing ourselves there, um, we're securing the knowledge that we're more cherished. We're worth it. We're worth God the Father sending His Son down from heaven. I mean, that's a, you can't just send, you just can't descend more than our Lord did, right? He took on our broken humanity, right? Lived a symbol. I would, many forget this. I mean, he lived in obscurity for thirty years. Can you imagine being God and living in a backwater town, doing simple tasks, living a domestic life? There's a lot for us here, probably not for today. But life and all sufferings. And then he suffered, and he died. He lived an incredible passion with each of us in his mind. He looked forth from the cross and saw each person that ever was, ever would be. He saw you. He knew you. He knew your name. Died in a personal way for each of us. And this is the challenge I see here. To let love cherish us is to receive. Yeah. To step forward as God's beloved sons and daughters and receive active receptivity. Receive this gift. Received this, the word that was spoken to us here. To receive God's cherishing. This is what the Father loves to do. Is do what he's about all the time, right? What is, what is God doing when I'm walking down the street? Street? He's loving me. What does God do me when I'm sleeping? He's loving me. What does God do when I sin? What does he do? While I'm sitting? He is loving me. It's outrageous. And not with that, we take that for granted. It's, it's almost scandalous, but it's reality. This is our God. And the challenge I think we have is being willing to let our guards down, humbly letting ourselves receive this cherishing. Mm-hmm. For through the cross, claim the gift. Yeah. And how it delights his heart when we do. It's like, oh, praise be to God. It was worth dying. Yeah. 'Cause this is what I was trying to speak to them. Yeah.
I love that, Sister. Mm-hmm. It's so powerful. It's like letting him cherish us. Mm-hmm. You know, believing that he's cherishing us. The church, every moment. And believing that I'm worth cherishing. That's another something like, for a lot of people, I'm worth cherishing. You know, it's just stunning. It's stunning. And it's true. It's true. That's the thing of it. True. It's all true. You don't think I love about it is that it's always. Mm-hmm. This is never a question mark. This is always there for us in every moment. We have to, but to turn to it. Mm-hmm. For him to speak. No, no. You're you're more than your sin. That doesn't define you. You are way more than your failures. Mm-hmm. That doesn't define you either. You are what my love says you are. Mm-hmm. Which is beloved of my Father. Mm-hmm. It's true. This is how Christians. This is what, how we're called and dared to live. Yeah. Cherished. To dare to be cherished. There to be cherished. It's amazing. There could be a tagline or a t-shirt. Yeah. I like the tease. You want it. I really do. I really do.
Well, you did, Sister. Do you remember in the moment it got me thinking, or it gets me thinking, BC before Christ, after Christ? When Christ, when this love touched your heart, even like in a moment, right? The moment you were, you knew this love existed. Mm-hmm. Or I imagine for those listening, it's like to recall this moment. You know, it's funny. I, I grew up in a kind of a rural setting, so there wasn't a lot of Catholic culture, even many Catholics. And so I'd never been to Eucharistic Adoration until I went to a retreat, a weekend retreat, when I was just finishing up eighth grade. And I would have to say, I didn't go with too much of an open heart. I just was kind of doing what Mom told me to do. And, you know, paid attention half the time until the last. And they had exposition, and they started. And I had no, I had no idea what was happening. I had no idea what was going on. I had no idea what the, I just, again, I wasn't, I wasn't well, kind of versed in this. And as the Blessed Sacrament, they processed the Blessed Sacrament throughout this, this church. All I knew, I mean, I was, yes, they possessed the Blessed Sacrament. But I was like, cut to the core of who I was. Like my heart was pierced. All I knew that it was love, and it was God, and that this God knew me, loved me, and that this somehow my life was to be a part, an intimate, intricate, definite part of this love. Mm-hmm. It changed everything. Changed everything. I went home and how many different decisions I made, different friends, whose I wanted this love to be part of my life. And, yeah, it's, I thank God. Thank God for that grace. His, he's so present in, in the Eucharist, so alive, ready to love. He is, he's waiting for us, waiting.
Sister, I love that story. Thank you for sharing that mercy. I mean, similar in the sense of the Eucharist, you know, like I, I had, you know, I had kind of gone through a deeper conversion, you know, junior high, high school, and I'd fallen in love with the truth, the truth of the faith, of the church. And I really fallen over the truth. And then I went to university, and I made a decision to kind of stop hanging out with my friends who are kind of partying. I thought, I don't really, nobody, anybody on campus. It's a huge campus, 35,000 people. And I was like, I do know somebody, and his name is Jesus. He's in the chapel, you know? So I went, and I splurged on a $22 Bible, and I sat in front of Jesus and the tabernacle. And I had fallen in love with the truth, but then it was in that personal prayer that I realized that he was in love with me. Was it? It was like he loved me, like me, me. The me I tried to hide sometimes. And he was happy that I was there. He was, he was pleased with me. He was delighted that I came to be with him. And that was like the first experience of, I felt myself to be cherished. I had cherished him and his truth, but it was like this, what, no, you were cherishing me all along, and you just let me dip into it. It was stunning. And so that, that time of personal prayer, that every day I would encounter him, was just life-changing. Life-changing. Stunning. Yeah. Yeah. His, the way he loves, you know?
Why? And to hear these stories, you know, to return to these stories, to ask each other these stories, you know, for those of you listening who have, who have a community of faith, it's so profound to hear of this cherishing love. And yet, how unique and personal it is. How he speaks so personally to each of us. It is so powerful. What's the love our hearts long for? Yeah. And it's always there. It's always, think it's waiting. It's waiting to hold us. Wow.
Well, and even, gosh, even if you look at the lives of the Saints. Oh, the best. The best. Yes. But even, I remember being blown away because again, Bernard of Clairvaux. Oh, I really truly believe he's, he's melancholic in temperament, at least apart because I just appreciate him so very much. And I need virtuous melancholic in my life. But have you ever heard about his, his degrees of love? You know?
I have. Have you?
I have, but tell me more. I was stunned. I actually, I didn't know what to do. Yeah. I was like, why did I hear that wrong? Yeah. Right. Yeah. It kind of blew so wall open in your head. Yeah. And you're, yeah. Yeah. Something. Okay. I'm just gonna, for again, I'm just gonna state them. We're not gonna unpack them, but they're just, it's profound to hear. So first degree of love is loving yourself for your sake. Okay. Mm-hmm. Will let people ponder that. Take that one. Ponder it. Look it up. The second degree of love is loving God, but for my sake. Okay. So we're growing a little bit, not the ladder here of love. The third degree of love is loving God for God's sake. Is this? So you can see there's a growing selflessness, self-gift in this exchange. And the fourth degree of love. Ready? I'm ready. I'm getting ready. I'm sitting down. Loving yourself for God's sake. Yeah. Wow. Loving yourself for God's sake. That has, in a sense, this, and not a narcissistic, self-oriented love, but a, a true. Mm-hmm. Flowing from the reality that love has made us. Yeah. Love is always loving us. And love is ever seeking. And is the definition of our lives. And wants to be, wants to express that in a thousand different ways if we would but notice. You notice love. God loves when we notice it. It's so sure how he loves us. And when we love someone, and we love what they love. Mm-hmm. You know? So God loves us. He died for us. Well, you know, I know when we love it, to love him, we love what he loves. So we love ourselves for his sake. It's car. It's amazing. It's so powerful. Just, yeah. Chew on. I mean, you could just chew on that for weeks, months. But it won't. It kind of, it just puts forward the challenge here. Is gosh, I've got to, it's a cat away. How do I start moving into tapping into this real? I have to ask for the grace to let my guard down. Yeah. Take off my masks. Actually, let go of the ways I defined myself. Mm-hmm. Let go of expectations I have of myself. Oh, whoa. Stakes are high here. Yeah. But what do we get in return? We get, we are defined by the only thing that can define us. We tap into what our hearts thirst for, something that's infinite and will never be satisfied by anything else. We finally yield to what it is we long for most, which is this love. But we need, I mean, I know I have to labor in this way. I've got to ask for the grace to receive love, not to judge myself. Mm-hmm. It doesn't mean I'm checking out and and not seeking to live a life of grace and virtue. It means I'm letting God in. Mm-hmm. I'm letting this reality blend more deeply with with all my stuff. Mm-hmm. All the moments of my life. Amen. Etc. Etc. It's really true. You know, and, and to let it, let it be like Blessed Mother said, like, let it be done unto me. Let me be cherished. Wow. You know, like a baby doesn't fight his mom, you know? Even have a poopy diaper. Mom doesn't stop cherishing me because he got a poopy diaper. No. You know, it's like, wow. You know, to let herself as a child would in his mother's arms, to let ourselves be held, be cherished, be seen, be loved. Yeah. It's good news. Yeah.
I love that. Makes me think of something amazing we heard recently, really. But Our Lady of Guadalupe. Oh, this is just a cougar. One of my favorites. She's the best. And if you don't know her story, I wish we had time to tell it now, but you gotta look it up 'cause it's amazing. It's maybe a mom. I'll tell it at a later date. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is like a teaser. He's like a trailer appetizer. But what Our Lady in Mexico at 1531 appeared to Juan Diego. As she, when she called him, I didn't know this. It in Spanish is translated as like, Juanito, one, so like, little Juan, diminutive, you know, which was very sweet and tender. But actually, what we learned the other day from our dear good friend, Mrs. Aguilar, yes, she tried to said, actually, in the, the language that Our Lady was speaking, which was the, the native indigenous language, hmm, that Juan Diego would have spoken, it's actually not that. What it is, is what's in Juan Diego. Do you got s'en doing great things? I never spoken this language before my inaugural time, but she was saying that that sin, the little addition, like Watson sin, means worthy, worthy one, honored. Hmm. You know? So Our Lady is saying to Juan Diego, "My little, my my worthy one." You know? And she says later, "I, who have the honor of being your mother." This is, um, the Mother Queen of Heaven. She cherishes her children's, cherishes the honor she being mother. It's stunning. It changes everything. It changes everything that you are worthy of being cherished. I am worthy of being cherished. Blessed Mother said so. It's melting my brain. It's amazing. It's so stunning. It is. It really is. What I hear, I mean, if we want to break that open universally, it's like, that's our, I mean, that's her word to each of us. Mm-hmm. And she calls each of us. She wants to mother us, right? In our, I think Juan Diego, I've heard many speak in reference to the reality that he really reveals the beauty of the late occasion. Mm-hmm. In a sense, in, in his simple state of life, and the beautiful state of life that he lived, stepping into and claiming that summons, that invitation to be an ambassador of God's love and truth. And in what a powerful way to, to rise in the fact that God the Father, the Blessed Mother, mm-hmm, she's honored at the task of the mothering and of she wants to call you in. Mm-hmm. To be at the service of God's grace. You about Juan Diego, they call him the talking eagle. Yeah. But he spoke and assisted this message of Our Lady. There were nine million conversions in seven years. Seven years. As outrageous. An entire culture was overturned through the fidelity of this humble servant, Juan Diego, who is worthy. In each of us, in through our baptism as God's sons and daughters, we step into this your same reality. Yeah. And what is God's mission? What is, what is Our Lady asked? Our Lady to help you claim your mission? Discern what it is. Gives the unique gift and be carried and giving it by God's cherishing love. Mm-hmm. Sounds like a good and holy dare. It sounds very good and a beautiful adventure. Yes. It's like, like in the baptism of Jesus, to know, this is my beloved son, my beloved daughter, with whom I'm well pleased. To live out of that, I think it touches the deepest, deepest call. Yeah. Definitely in our mission. Definitely grace. Yeah. Hmm.
I don't know. I just, so much. I feel like we've covered some beautiful ground. We have. And it's something I know I want to take to prayer more. Mm-hmm. And I, I guess before we go, I have a thought.
Tell me.
Well, my, my, my challenge or the invitation. I know what I feel like going and doing right now. So I'm just gonna share my, what I think is an inspiration is simply to go and take time to meditate on the cross. Mm-hmm. To just meditate or even just look at and reflect on a crucifix for three minutes. Mm-hmm. To place yourself there. To know yourself as loved. Yes. A sinner, but a loved, forgiving sinner. Yes. Someone who, I'm sure, as we all do, have quirks and gifts and gaps and weaknesses and blunders, probably that you're overcoming as you ponder your day. But look and let this love be the final word and be the word that comes into each, each of these places. That would be, yeah. Just a little fun invitation.
I love that. What do you have anything before we go?
Well, I would just say, maybe just ask Our Lady. Are they dilute? They? Just Blessed Mother, I'm show me how I am cherished. Show me how I'm cherished. Just answer simply and let her do it. Put it in her court, you know? Let her, let her reveal that to you. Yeah. Yeah. That's beautiful. Yeah.
Wow. So we are treasured. Amen. We're cherished. Okay. Heart. We're loves. We're sons and daughters. And with an inheritance and a kingdom of love to claim and live in. Mm-hmm. And don't let anybody tell you that you think otherwise, you know? Amen. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, golly. And with the prayer, Sister. I wonder if you would bless us in that way. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Jesus, we thank you so much for this time, this time of conversation. Thank you for all the ways that you reveal to us that we are cherished. We ask you, Jesus, right now, to open our eyes to you, to your love for us. We ask you to open our hearts to the beauty and power of the cross. Lord, tell us who we are. Help us to know that we are cherished by you in every moment and at everything. Help us to know that we are worthy of cherishing, that you have a plan for our life in our love. We entrust ourselves, all our needs and intentions, and all those in our lives whom we cherish. We trust them to your heart and into the heart of our Blessed Mother. And we give you glory as we pray. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Oh, man. Man. Such a gift of you with you, Sister. They give to be with you, Sister. Who's listening, we're praying. See you next time. And God bless you.
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