We lay foundations that will need further development...

"This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development...We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that." -Written for the mass honoring Oscar Romero

We lay foundations that will need further development... This is a very literal image that has been sticking with me over the last number of days, as our group has been literally working to clear the way for a foundation that will be laid by another group that will follow behind us, and that one day will become a house. This sentiment doesn't stop at the literal however. Yesterday as we spent time with the Sisters of Charity serving a meal, I had a similar thought. The act of providing a simple meal, day after day, might not be system transforming, but is an act of resistance. A willingness to proclaim that even in the face of insurmountable odds, their is hope, their is another way, their is life.

And so I invite you to think about... what are the seeds you are planting that you will not see grow? What are you the seeds you are watering? What foundations have been laid by you, or for you, that one day will be built upon?

-Alex Serna-Wallender, Chaplain at the College of Wooster