The Bishop Maginn High School art class got a simple but not so simple assignment a couple of weeks ago for prayer class: the students were asked to look back over 2020 and pick one of God’s Blessings.
“Simply fill a slide presentation with God’s Blessings,” read the assignment. “This has been an extraordinarily difficult year in many ways. We have seen great suffering and civil unrest. Yet like stars in the sky, the abundant blessings all around us shine through the darkness.”
The teaches said the students discovered that once they began looking for courage, beauty, kindness, and goodness, “it was everywhere.”
If you can, take a minute to look at one of the class’s favorite blessings of 2010.
Zinnia, the school’s therapy dog, is the Queen of love and kindness (they helped me train her, and I am very proud to see her honored in this way by children who know a great deal about kindness, love, and courage.
Thanks. I am grateful for her as well.
What a wonderful, fruitful assignments! The greatest of the blessiings I’m finding these day is God, in all God’s amazing disguises — Zinnia being one of them. After all, God is love, and it is in God — through the life, death and Resurrection of Christ — that we live and dwell and have our being.