Hello my friends! Hope your day went well all day! Misplaced a coupon for an oil change, and spent lots of time looking for it today - no where to be found! It must have just disappeared in the air! Ever have something like that happen to you? I'll pray to St. Anthony - he should know where it is. But maybe he'll just put it where we've already looked!! An old nun we used to know, she's up there now, used to have great devotion to him, and when something was missing, she'd say, "Tony cough it up!!" Other than that, today was very low key - the blessings in all that is I have all my drawers cleaned out thoroughly! Wishing you all a great night and praying for all your needs.
If everyone thought alike, no one would have to do much thinking.
Lord, bless me with the strength of my convictions and the ability
to disagree when necessary without being disagreeable.
Scripture for the day:
"Through Christ you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the
dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are set on God." ~1
Peter 1:21
Meditation for the day:
God's miracle-working power is as manifest today as it was in the past.
It still works miracles of change in lives and miracles of healing in
troubled minds. When a person trusts wholly in God and leaves to God
the choosing of the day and hour, there is God's miracle-working power
becoming manifest in that person's life. We can trust in God and have
boundless faith in God's power to make us whole again.
Prayer for the day:
I pray that I may feel sure that there is nothing that God cannot
accomplish in changing my life. I pray that I may have faith in God's
miracle-working power.
Who Is Jesus ?
To the ARTIST He is the One Altogether lovely
To the ARCHITECT He is the Chief Cornerstone
To the BAKER He is the Living Bread
To the BANKER He is the Hidden Treasure
To the BIOLOGIST He is the Life
To the BUILDER He is the Sure Foundation
To the CARPENTER He is the Door
To the DOCTOR He is the Great Physician
To the EDUCATOR He is the Great Teacher
To the ENGINEER He is the New and Living Way
To the FLORIST He is the Rose of Sharon
To the GARDENER He is the Lily of the Valley
To the GEOLOGIST He is the Rock of Ages
To the HORTICULTURIST He is the True Vine
To the JUDGE He is the Judge of All Men
To the JURY He is the Righteous Judge
To the JEWELER He is the Pearl of Great Price
To the LAWYER He is The Advocate
To the NEWSPAPER He is the Good Tidings of Great Joy
To the OCULTIST He is the Light Of The Eyes
To the PHILANTHROPIST He is the Unspeakable Gift
To the PHILOSOPHER He is the Wisdom of God
To the SCULPTOR He is the Living Stone
To the SERVANT He is the Good Master
To the STATESMAN He is the Desire of All Nations
To the STUDENT He is Incarnate Truth
To the THEOLOGIAN He is the author and Finisher of Our Faith
To the TOILER He is the Great Rest
To the SINNER He is the Lamb of God that Takes Away the Sins of the World
PEACE OF HEART
Almighty and Eternal God, Give me, I beseech You, the great gift of inward
peace. Command the winds and storms of my unruly passions. Subdue, by Your
grace, my proneness to love created things too much. Give me a love of
suffering for Your sake. make me forbearing and kind to others, that I may
avoid quarrels and contentions. And teach me constantly to seek after and to
acquire that perfect resignation to Your Holy Will which alone brings
interior peace. Amen.
Unceasing Prayer
Dear Father, who answers our prayers,
Help me to be steadfast in my praying to you, even to stay awake that I may
pray!
Fill my life with thanksgiving to you.
O God, I pray for all your servants everywhere that you may open a door for
us to proclaim your Word, to declare the now-public secret - Christ
crucified, glorified, and coming - and to make the message clear, as we
ought to speak.
In the name of Jesus I ask you to fill our lives with your holy life and to
claim all our motives and deeds as your own. Amen.
Prayer For The Future
Lord, open our heart to receive Your Holy Spirit.
Teach us to await His coming, just as You did for Mary on the day of the
Annunciation, and again on Pentecost - the birthday of the Church - when she
was transformed into our Mother.
Show the new generation that Your Son Jesus Christ remains always and
forever the one and only Savior of the world.
Help us proclaim in a loud and bold voice that He is "the way, the truth and
the life."
The way that leads us to our final destiny.
The truth that illuminates our passage through the darkness of life and the
world.
The life that enriches us with profound peace.
Allow Your disciples, at the dawn of the third millennium, to speed up their
steps towards obeying Your command to be "one" in unity with the Father, the
Son and the Holy Spirit. May we approach the Lord, united, radiant with His
light, without somber faces, so that the whole world may know and recognize
Jesus Christ living in His disciples.
Dear Lord, Please give me...
A few friends who understand me and yet remain my friends.
A work to do which has real value, without which the world would feel the
poorer...
A mind unafraid to travel, even though the trail be not blazed.
An understanding heart...
A sense of humor.
Time for quiet, silent meditation.
A feeling of the presence of God.
And the patience to wait for the coming of these things, with the wisdom to
know them when they come.
Amen.
(W. R. Hunt)
Do Not Doubt It
You are beautiful
God made you and you are beautiful
Do not doubt it
You are loved
God loves you
HIS love is unfailing and never ending
Do not doubt it
You are not alone
God is always with you
through the good times and the bad
HE will never forsake you
Do not doubt it
HE is waiting for you
When your time on this earth has ended
HE will be waiting for you at Heaven's Gate
with open arms
HE is ready to welcome you home
when the time is right
Do not doubt it
by LJ Rogers
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his
Son to be the propitation for our sins.
I John 4:10
Mother Teresa Said...
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God’s gift of
Himself.
Ask and seek, and your heart will grow big enough to receive Him and keep
Him as your own.
Meditations by Padre Pio
The Spirit of God is a Spirit of peace and even in the most serious faults
He makes us feel a sorrow that is tranquil, humble, and confident and this
is precisely because of His mercy.
The spirit of the devil, instead, excites, exasperates and makes us feel, in
that very sorrow, anger against ourselves, whereas we should on the contrary
be charitable with ourselves first and foremost.
Therefore, if any thought agitates you, this agitation never comes from God,
who gives you peace, being the Spirit of Peace, but from the devil.
The Spirit of God is a Spirit of peace and even in the most serious faults
He makes us feel a sorrow that is tranquil, humble, and confident and this
is precisely because of His mercy.
The spirit of the devil, instead, excites, exasperates and makes us feel, in
that very sorrow, anger against ourselves, whereas we should on the contrary
be charitable with ourselves first and foremost.
Therefore, if any thought agitates you, this agitation never comes from God,
who gives you peace, being the Spirit of Peace, but from the devil.
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