![]() Words and phrases like fracture, and splintered like broken grass. In this ecstatic vision Salzman connects (for the first time) the immensity of Sister John's visions with the immensity of the pain of her headache by using language full of painful imagery. Swept my pain away, swept everything away She splintered like broken glass, she became all edges and points and she was sure this had to be death, it had to be the end of everything, then her suffering blinked off. It adds another layer of responsibility to Sister John's dilemma whether or not to go through with the surgery to take out the tumor. ![]() ![]() Thanks to the funds that came from her book based on her visions, the monastery was able to provide for itself. This quote provides a context for just how widely Sister John's ecstatic visions affected the whole monastery. 'Talent comes from God, but it only bears fruit through hard work." Sister Elizabeth and Sister John, p. ![]() 'Don't keep your light under a bushel,' Sister Elizabeth advised. 'None of it is my doing,' Sister John protested when the others congratulated her. Joseph traditionally depended on the sale of homemade jellies, greeting cards, and communion wafers to meet expenses, but its economic future had brightened considerably since Sister John discovered her gift for writing. We'll definitely be able to replace the roof this year.' ![]() "'Sister John is too modest to mention this, but I'm going to embarrass her anyway: her book is going into another printing. ![]()
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