Last December, I boarded a plane to fly home for the holidays and plopped down in my seat, already exhausted from pre-Christmas activities and preparation. I thought to myself, "Next year, I have to get more sleep and take better care of my body. I can’t survive at this pace!"

As Joshua crosses the Jordan River into the promised land, he instructs representatives from each tribe to pick up a stone, saying, "When your children ask you in the time to come, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’ then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off.

Sources of Strength

Book Review: Dorothy Day: Portaits by Those Who Knew Her (Orbis Books: 2003).