Resilience in Daily Living

Donna CarnesBenedictine Bridge, Monastic Life Leave a Comment

As part of the Volunteer in Community program this summer, Donna Carnes taught a class on resilence. Below are her reflections on the experience. When Sister Mary David Walgenbach and I talked in March about what topic I’d like to focus on while ‘teaching’ a class to the summer volunteers, I said without hesitation, ‘Resilience in Daily Living,‘ and she replied without skipping a beat: ‘perfect!’ The ease of our connection made me think: genesis is good! The hours spent with the young women and Sister Lynne Smith affirmed the value of the subject, and the wealth of experience and feeling that each …