Clare

 Her name was Clare.  She lived in Assisi, Italy.  She was a young, rich beautiful teenager.  In our modern Western world, she had it all.  She did not earn rich and beautiful.  She just had it.  Society offered her, as it does today, so many options.  But her heart received another vision that would set her apart from the options offered by society.  She followed her heart.  She became a contemplative, living in a monastic enclosure.  Crazy?  Her heart hungered for a way of fulfillment, of becoming her true self, and this was the Way of Christ.  Her friend Francis told her about it.  She had a full life.  How many rich and beautiful people can say the same thing if they only focus on rich and beautiful?  Clare wanted less of the material world.  Many people think that "more" is the solution.  The solution to what?