“I used to keep my spiritual life in a tight space and felt that my work, my social life, my relational joys and struggles actually kept me away from God rather than teaching me and being sources of personal transformation for me. Now I see all of this differently. I have come to believe that every part of my life affects or influences my life with God… I try now to approach each person, event, creature, with two questions: How are you my teacher? What am I meant to learn?”
–Joyce Rupp, The Cup of Our Life (Notre Dame, IN, Ave Maria Press, 1997), p. 24
