A Virgin a Day: Day Four
"Our Lady of Fortune's Arrows" So often,it seems like we're targets for fortune's arrows. Things happen that are outside our control, no matter how much we try to keep our lives measured and fully predictable. Hurricanes roar ashore and wash away homes and all the ephemera that makes up the collage of our lives. Lovers betray us and make us wonder how much of our relationship was mere fiction. Miscarriages, stillbirths, debilitating or even fatal illness, job losses or financial reversals, deaths of people we love. . . we are not in control of everything We can only choose how we react to it. Will we, like the Holy Mother, look "what is" in the face and find the strength to move forward, perhaps with a heavy heart but full of resolve? Will we face down tyranny, abuse, and ignorance with a heart of love and the conviction that if not us, then who? Will we mov...