In these days of diverse, diverting and divine – by implication – religions, religious movements, and belief systems, there is one Order that rises above the rest.
Allied to no particular beliefs, in fact made up of a polyglot collection of diverse nods to all points of the compass, they are, none the less, a powerful focus of the most important of beliefs – love and kindness.
For each of us who know a member of The Sisters of Perpetual Sunshine, we can see how each acts a s a fulcrum for kindness and caring to revolve around. And because many exist in close proximity to each other, there are complex venn diagrams of interlocking love.
And this Order has been in existence for a good while now, and its presence is always there, in good times and bad, to lift, to hold, to support, to applaud.
And it has added new, individually and uniquely glorious Sisters to its ranks over time, and one or two honorary ‘male’ Sisters.
And even during these testing – no joke intended – times, or perhaps especially now more than before, their love and kindness is stronger than ever.
They cannot hold us, they cannot fold us into their supporting presence, and yet their compassion is clear.
They smile in the sunshine, in the mottled shadows of a woody walk; they send messages of contact, to ensure that no-one feels alone in isolation; they provide endless examples of small and uplifting posts, pictures and prompts for positivity.
They are diverse, dispersed by geography, physically disconnected by present circumstances, and yet they are linked, and interlinked, and the connections are as strong as ever.
I close my eyes and I can see each of the Sisters that I know, and the light that joins them, and creates a network, and a net, that will catch all, support all, let no-one fall.
And even when the clouds return, or nightime comes, the light, the bright, the shine, is always there.
The Sisters of Perpetual Sunshine are the carers and supporters for today, and the guides and goddesses for tomorrow.
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