Article Review

Trista Haggerty brings perspective on disaster to an even smaller scale with her article, “Journey to the Inner Temple: divine presence in everyday life.” While Weber and Kelly are charged with the responsibility of taking mass-scale disasters and finding a bit of small personal hope within them, Haggerty does almost the opposite. She addresses the tiny tragedies of our everyday lives: “a longtime grief over the lack of the family dinner in our home. Bad habits were fully in place with my busy family and their busy lives.” In Haggerty’s experiment, she makes a commitment to become more present and less controlling in her own life and find beauty in every moment in order to break the confines of previous patterns. Her message is hopeful because her experiment works. Haggerty finds that “The letting go that precedes grace is a necessary component. Being willing to stand in complete vulnerability is the threshold, or gateway, to a miracle waiting to occur.” 

by Rachel Cuschieri-Murray