From Darkness to Light

While attending a beautiful wedding ceremony this past Friday, my eye was caught by one of the priests there.

This was a priest who was stationed at my college Newman center during the time of my conversion.

Being steeped in sin, my sweet sister who was in college at the same time as me, would invite me to daily Mass. There I would hear his words strike me to the core, compelling me to change my ways.

I often forget that initial beginning of my relationship with Christ. I can also very easily take for granted this transformation I’ve received.

I’m in no way entitled to the life I live with Christ now. It is pure gift and not something I can just put on the back burner. It is something that is woven through every part of my day, whether I acknowledge it or not.

It is the reason why my life doesn’t make sense to the rest of the world. I choose to indulge in those things that will last rather than that which is temporal.

I am truly humbled that I get to experience the light that illumined the terrible darkness I was in.

This journey has led me to paths of the Father’s heart that I have been able to experience in His light-marriage, motherhood, sorrow, pain, joy, adventure, stillness, silence, wonder. And of course, the most recent and wonderful path of managing this beautiful mind He has given me to help myself and others to become Saints.

His ways are not our ways, and for that, I am insanely grateful. His ways are much more liberating than we can ever imagine.