Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
Kathleen NorrisOnly Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.
Kathleen NorrisThe ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.
Kathleen Norris