Children with AIDS was a recent topic. She goes to Mass twice a week, on Sunday at Holy Trinity, the white stone church with two steeples on North 14th Street that is visible from Interstate 70, and on a weeknight at the Catholic Worker's Karen House, the soup kitchen and shelter near her home. She spends a portion of each day just being quiet. She said she learned to let go of herself when she handed someone a leaflet. Then whatever their reaction, whether they agree, get angry or worst of all ignore you, you have to let it go.
Prayer is like that, too.
You have to let yourself go. Prayer is a spontaneous habit. Recently, when she heard a radio broa dcast of a serious traffic accident near home and heard the sirens, she began praying for the people. She says the years of picketing changed her. Sometimes, often enough that it is part of the pattern, her day is rearranged.