It's a beautiful day to run. At least, that's what Sr. Sarah Heger thinks. Whether it's hot and humid, cold and rainy, or snowy, the Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet believes every day is good for a run.

" . . . the Lord has called us to such great things that those who are to be a mirror and example to others may be reflected in us . . . ."

Sometimes messages follow us around. This summer voices of violence at home and abroad, the face of white superiority, racism, and the very visceral weather events intensified by climate change through the heat waves, drought, floods seem to attach themselves to us like strong neon colored sticky notes.

LCWR 2016 - On Tuesday night — from a stage lined with LED candles and backlit with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious' signature green and blue — LCWR president Sister of St. Joseph Marcia Allen officially kicked off the conference's 2016 annual assembly in Atlanta. LCWR leadership planned for contemplative dialogue to be the focus of this year's assembly, and the opening night was no exception. 

"A full life ebbs and flows; is alternately creative and at rest; is filled with joy and at other times peacefully contemplative."

Environmentalists are mourning the death of Charity Sr. Paula Gonzalez, a Cincinnati nun who spent the last 45 years of her life advocating for renewable energy. Gonzalez, 83, died July 31 at the Charity Sisters' Ohio motherhouse.

GSR Today - Hurricane Earl was downgraded to a tropical storm late last week, but not before it caused death and damage in the Dominican Republic and Belize. As usual, people in the impoverished areas in the path of the storm were the most affected.

Sr. Infant Tresa is both a Catholic nun and a yoga master. The 65-year-old manages two yoga centers in Kerala, a Christian stronghold in southern India, at a time when some church leaders, including the Vatican's chief exorcist, Fr. Cesare Truqui view the ancient Indian system as satanic. Tresa is among the more than 7,000 members of the Franciscan Clarist Congregation, a Kerala-based congregation with the largest number of women religious in India. She says yoga is an extension of her religious life and has helped cure her of illness.

In the wake of the brutal killings at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando and multiple horrific acts of violence and hatred against police and against men of color by police in several American cities, I cry out with so many of you who yearn for a change of heart, individually and collectively.