Benedictine nun, Sr. Joan Chittister acknowledges that we “live out the kind of God we believe in.” In other words, if we believe in a vengeful God, then we live a bitter life, cold and hard, suspicious of difference, our hearts empty, no need to care. If we believe in a Good Shepherd God then we are, each one of us, held as we navigate through the shadows of life, as we encounter illness of body or mind in ourselves or others, as we see despair and try to ease it, as we see the absence of justice and respond. These are the things that our God is acutely aware of and is constantly tending. We look to the Good Shepherd God to show us the way and we look to one another each of us, sheep, to follow, to care.
--Sharon M. K. Kugler
Image source 1: Sadao Watanabe, The Good Shepherd (1968), https://www.sadaohanga.info/home/introduction/the-sadaohanga-catalogue
Image source 2: The Heavenly Jerusalem, San Pietro al Monte, Civate, https://www.flickr.com/photos/27305838@N04/25120946312
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Image source 2: The Heavenly Jerusalem, San Pietro al Monte, Civate, https://www.flickr.com/photos/27305838@N04/25120946312
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