Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
The miracle is not that we do this work but that we are happy to do it.
Discernment is God's call to intercession never to faultfinding.
Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely but the filling has come at last into its own.