My friend, Danny, unexpectedly brought Sister Rosemary by my office last week during her visit to Pepperdine. What a gift! I have seen a handful of people who made TIME magazine’s 2014 list of the 100 most influential people in the world in person, but it was most definitely the first time one dropped by my office to say hello. I have my fingers crossed that either Beyoncé or Pope Francis will follow Sister Rosemary’s lead soon.
[Click HERE to read what Academy Award-winning actor, Forrest Whitaker, wrote about Sister Rosemary for TIME in 2014.]
At her evening conversation event last week Sister Rosemary featured stylish purses created at her Tailoring Center using aluminum can pop-tops. She told the audience that she uses this process to teach the women and girls who have been ravaged by war that throw-away trash can be transformed into treasure. What a lovely metaphor.
I’m not so sure that I can take trash and turn it into an actual fashion accessory. But I’m up for changing the way I look at human beings who have been discarded one way or another in this world to see the treasure waiting there in what Mother Teresa once called “distressing disguise.” Sister Rosemary does this with what Whitaker called contagious energy and boundless love. And in the copy of her book “Sewing Hope” that she gifted me she wrote that “love is the key.”
So if it is just as well with you, we might as well get started loving.
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