Suddenly it's the last Sunday in July!

                               ___________The Collect_

may we 

so pass 

through 

things

temporal 

  that 
    we
      lose 

        not 

            the

               things eternal  * * 

                                                                     As 

                                             I was working 

                                        on this, I was also 
                                     watering - getting 
                                 up at quite short in-
                            tervals to turn on and 
                       off  the sprinklers. Siri sets 
                    them  so easily, like a genie  
              there when you want him- "him
          because Tinker found me a lovely 
male Australian voice. As the last timer 
chimes went off , I laughed at myself , re-
membering  Sr Francisca telling me to 
respond to the chapel bell like the voice 
of God. I had  later considered it quaint 
after falling love with Gordon  and leav-
ing behind the call (or so I thought). Un-
til  that last timer went off , I had been 

treating these 2 things as 2 separate  

activities- working on my medita-

tion vrse  over here and  inter-

rupting that to water over 

here.And suddenly, as I 

responded to that 

last timer- 

quick

ly, as 

to the voice 

of God ,God chucked 

and he said very quietly 

“Louise, there are not two 

things-  this is one thing, one 

life. So pass through things tempor-

al that you lose not the things eternal.”