Strive for ‘joyful optimism’ in our day-to-day lives
ON A RAINY day in 1984, one of my co-Jesuit novices told an elderly American Jesuit: “Father Paul, what a gloomy, rainy day.” The ever-cheerful Fr. Paul O’Brien, SJ, looked out and, with a smiling face, said: “Well, it’s a nice day for the ducks.”