BrooklynHeights

I devoured a book this weekend called The Camel Knows the Way by Lorna Kelly.  Lorna Kelly had a beautiful somewhat glamorous life in New York City in the 1970s; she was Sotheby’s first woman auctioneer.  But circumstances in her life led her to respond to God’s call, and go wherever he asked her.  And what he put on her heart was traveling to India to work with the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa.  Now, she doesn’t leave her life for good and become a nun, I don’t think I would have loved the book as much if she had.  (Nothing against nuns of course.)  Instead someone gives her a book about Mother Teresa for Christmas one year and she becomes entranced with her and decides to go to Calcutta for three weeks to work alongside the Sisters.  It’s an impulsive move but one that pays off in so many ways.

I wanted to write something about the importance of Holy Week and of the beauty and glory of Easter but I found myself silenced in the face of such subjects.  (Not surprising really, I find the idea of blogging causes me anxiety even when I set the bar really low.)  So I started looking around for inspiration and ended up with this gathering of quotes from various eloquent sources which I found enjoyable and enlightening.