A desire that is permanently transformed into spiritual life.
Waiting that is hard to bear:
years of patience, though desire is as keen
years of uncertainty, though direction is not lost
years of frustration, though the Spirit is never stifled.
A desire that can wait without despair will bear more fruit;
a desire that grows and keeps on growing while waiting is the seed of the hundredfold.
A hope that guides us infallibly:
Rose Philippine's desire is
no empty promise,
no hollow inspiration,
no vain word;
it is convincingly real, rich, exemplary;
it is creative action, dynamic, rock-solid, pregnant with the future;
a dream already come true, yet still to be realised.
Rosario Valdeavellano rscj
from Peru, Comunidad Internacional, Roma
