The rules are simple:
Pass this on to 5 blogging friends. Open the closest book to you, not your favorite or most intellectual book, but the book closest to you at the moment, to page 56. Write the 5th sentence, as well as two to five sentences following that.
Here we go, then:
We can appreciate the beauty of life even among the thorns that surround us. This joy and consolation comes to so many through what the Lahoods call their "ministry"; it gives depth and meaning to humanity. It is not so much because they achieve "great" things, but because they do "small things with great love." Gift of self means everything we are given - every talent - is given as a gift (Carl Anderson, A Civilization of Love: What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform the World).
If this is a meme you'd enjoying doing, consider yourself tagged.
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