[Message from our Executive Director, Daniel Wasserman-Soler]
Dear friends,
Today, I write to you with a reflection about gifts. The passage comes from the Book of Prayer and Meditation (1554), written by the Dominican friar Louis of Granada. He describes the gifts we receive from God:
Consider principally and with great care what you were before you were created, what God did with you, and what He gave you even though you did not deserve it: your body with all its parts and senses, your excellent soul – created in His image and likeness for such a lofty goal as rejoicing in God. He gave to the soul three exceedingly noble powers: intellect, memory, and the will. Giving you this great soul is to give you all things.
We were nothing. God could have made us into anything: rocks, birds, serpents. Instead, He gave “all things” to us, creating us “in his image and likeness.”
Today, I give thanks to our Creator for the “exceedingly noble” gifts that we have received from him. Merry Christmas.
Yours in Christ,
Daniel Wasserman-Soler
Executive Director
Lumen Christi Institute