The Cup of Our Life
June 2022 —Reviewed by Catherine Scholastica K. Mutua on Global Sisters Report
After all these years, I see my life as a cup: beautiful but cracked and chipped, with a broken handle. This reminds me of my humanness. With many years of use, a cup is bound to slip and fall, and if it does not totally break, one continues to use it.
Joyce Rupp’s book helped me to see many facets of my religious life that I had not seen before. Reflecting on my life over the last 25 years, I see these same characteristics that Joyce mentions in her book. The different symbols reflected in one cup echo the different stages of my living religious life. On Page 135 and following, Joyce talks about the “blessing cup.” Although the whole book has many lessons for my life, those particular pages have helped me to find blessings in various ways that I have lived my life and continue to live. Quoting her: “Anyone and anything that brings good or God-ness into our lives is a blessing.”
At this point in my life, I continue to live the cup of our life and nurture the lessons that are presented in ordinary symbols like a cup.
