Reflection

Dolores Mission School is trying to focus more on what it means for them to be a Jesuit school, which I think is amazing after my SLU background.  So, beginning this year, every classroom has a picture of St. Ignatius (fondly referred to by most of the teachers as "Iggy") with a brief bio next to him, and teachers are going to be trying to talk more about him and about the Jesuits (who, in my opinion, are the best priests ever).  Also, on a school wide level, the students are going to be doing a brief Examen at the end of ever school day.  The Examen, a reflection based on Iggy's Spiritual Exercises, that DMS is going to be using is from the book, Sleeping with Bread: Holding What Gives You Life.  I'm hoping become the proud owner of a copy of this awesome book sometime soon.  If you go to this link on Amazon's website, you can view a good chunk of the book.

The story behind the title is pretty sweet too:
During the bombing raids of WWII, thousands of children were orphaned and left to starve. The fortunate ones were rescued and placed in refugee camps where they received food and good care. But many of these children who had lost so much could not sleep at night. They feared waking up to find themselves once again homeless and without food. Nothing seemed to reassure them. Finally, someone hit upon the idea of giving each child a piece of bread to hold at bedtime. Holding their bread, these children could finally sleep in peace. All through the night the bread reminded them, "Today I ate and I will eat again tomorrow." (Linn, Dennis et al, Sleeping With Bread, p.l)

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