So now I am in Denver for the next four weeks at the lovely Regis University. All the novices from around the United States are gathered here to take a Jesuit History course. It is a very beautiful campus, but my favorite thing is to see the mountains in the distance; it is like seeing an old friend. *sigh* I miss the West so much! It’s pretty neat, too, to meet all these different novices and to hear differences between how the various novitiates do their thing. It’ll be weird being back in a college setting again though, having had a year off! But it is all part of Jesuit formation, so I might as well get used to it!
Just because I am a curious person, I wanted to pose a question to you. I sometimes think about the story of Solomon, about how God offered to grant him one wish. What if God offered you the same? What would you wish for?
I’ve often thought of many things. Oftentimes I think I would wish for wings. Many other times I wish for the ability to heal people, or to at least bear their suffering for them. Sometimes I wish I could know every academic thing, the contents of everything ever written. Sometimes I wish I could read/write and understand every language that ever existed.
But then I think about these things and others and I start to feel like they would be pretty selfish wishes, so I often try to think of wishes that would be more unselfish. Often during these times I wish for simpler things, like a chance to spend a day with Mary or a particular saint (I want to save meeting God for Heaven some day, God willing.) Or sometimes I wish I could constantly hear the music of Heaven. But even these simple wishes seem a little selfish. Basically, I’ve thought about what I would wish for for many years but I’ve never figured out what my wish would be.
So I’m curious what others might ask for; maybe I’ll finally decide on something myself!
It is called “Golden Hours” by Frederick Leighton. I wish I had it as a poster!