Dear Friends,

  I typed a long letter on this day, October 6 but am afraid I lost it all.
  So quickly, I have great news to share:  Liturgical Publishing Company in Collegeville wants to publish my book but after I pare it down from 257 pages to about 180.  That is a lot of cutting but I will do it.  I so want this book to be born!!  I have worked on it for three years.  When will it be born?  I suspect next summer or fall; it will take me till next March or so to find time to make the needed changes.  Its title is:  More Than You Could Ever Imagine: Ignatian and Carmelite Insights on Our Becoming Divine.   It tells the process of how God leads those willing in love and trust to take on the fullness of divine life, what we will be like individually in the next life and what will be the nature of our life as a whole human race in the next life.  Kind of lofty??  Certainly, but as the Christian scriptures promise:  "Eye has not seen, ear has not heard nor has it so much as entered into the minds of humanity what God has prepared for those who love Him."  It is more than one could ever imagine.
  Then I have a weekend retreat to lead for 17 young African Jesuit priests next weekend (October 11-13).   I would greatly appreciate your praying for all of us.  It is a very important event for them and for me.  Thanks again. 
  Kenya is still numb from the tragedy of the massacre two weekends ago.  Pray for this country and its future, please.  So much promise here and at the same time so much poverty and unemployment.  This stands in contrast to the beauty of nature here.
  God bless.  I need to go.

Bernie Owens