Saturday, January 29, 2022
Dear Joe and Steve and family,
Be assured of my prayers and sympathy at the death of Margaret. I met Margaret in 2005 when we worked together at the Diocese of Tucson. Her love for ministry, the people and the Word of God were a constant example to me of how to be in ministry together for this local Church. One Christmas Margaret gave me a book of poems by Billy Collins.(1991). I offer it here as we walk the final journey with Margaret.
The Dead
The dead are always looking down on us, they say,
while we are putting on our shoes or making a sandwich,
they are looking down through the glass-bottom boats of heaven
as they row themselves slowly through eternity.
They watch the tops of our heads moving below on earth,
and when we lie down in a field or on a couch,
drugged perhaps by the hum of a warm afternoon,
they think we are looking back at them,
which makes them lift their oars and fall silent
and wait, like parents, for us to close our eyes.
Peace and Blessings,
Sister Lois Paha, O.P.
