Sr Damian Lai, a Sister of St Paul de Chartres, is celebrating 60 years in her vocation. She shares how she once ran from God, but was gradually drawn back by the beauty of prayer and a deepening relationship with Him.
Transcript
Well, I have chosen to make these three vows voluntarily, because I know myself, before I had any inclining of God’s call or whatever I’ve been running away from God all the time even though He had try again and again to bring me back to Him. So I found out that even though I’m drawn by the beauty of prayer life and closer relationship with God, human witness is such that is not easy to conquer the greatest enemy itself. So I welcome and I’m glad to put myself in the situation where God would find me there if I give myself totally to Him. It’s through His grace. At that time when I had decided to enter the convent and make the vows that time I had already been in the Legion of Mary for a long time and some of my fellow legionaries said, oh they would also have some liking for the religious life, but they said, it’s to difficult, well they asked me, but I said, it’s not by my own power or initiative, I have to rely on God and then I don’t need to worry about the rest. So it’s just like jumping into the unknown, but the unknown in a way I know, because the God who called me is always faithful.