Renewing a Love for Earth in Challenging Times ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dear monks, artists, and pilgrims, This week’s love note is an excerpt from a written interview that Bearings, the journal of the Collegeville Institute, posted with me this week about my newest book Earth, Our Original Monastery. _____ In the book’s introduction you identify your vocation as contemplative. How do you engage with the existential dread and anxiety of climate change? Being a contemplative is the only thing that saves me from complete despair. Yet, even so, I still experience those feelings of dread and anxiety. There are beliefs which are the core of my contemplative practice: one, a deep