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All this life and heaven too

By Silvana Dallanegra, RSCJ

My profile says I am a religious sister: but what it doesn’t say, explicitly, is that I love being a sister. It is a way of life which gives me life, which challenges and fulfils in equal measure, and frees me to love and grow in loving. Crucially, it gives me that “more” of God for which I longed all those years ago, and the pursuit of which brought me to the Society. Belonging to God is scary, tough and risky, bringing tears and renunciation; but it also gives deep, untold joy, and – true to Jesus’s promise – yields an abundantly rich, indescribably varied hundredfold. 

This is who, what and how I am, and what I want to share with others. So in this blog I hope to bring together my different loves – of words, photography, creativity – and place them at the service of my central love, the Love that will not let me go.