Hello my friends! Today has been a visiting day with my 91 year old sister here with her neighbor, Monica, bringing her and they both were out Christmas Shopping! Weather was nice, very nice out! After supper which was Pork, hashbrowns, corn, etc. we got the kitchen cleaned up and played a few hands of the card game 500! It was fun! Now they are in bed and that's where I"m headed too after I get this thread out. Lots of blessings today, Monica even brought soup that she made for lunch! It was very good! Deil brought her home made apple kuchen! A dessert or breakfast she makes a lot - Our Mom used to make this back in the day! It's a round sweet bread with apples in the middle and oh so good!
Jesus is the greatest giver of happiness that anyone has ever known.
Take Him into your heart. Lord, Your presence in my life brings me
great joy.
Scripture for the day:
"If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you
wish, and it will be done for you." ~John 15:7
Meditation for the day:
"Ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you." God has
unlimited power. There is no limit to what God's power can do in
human hearts. We can will to have God's power and we can ask God for
it. God's power can be blocked by our indifference to it. We can go
along our own selfish way without calling on God's help, and we
receive no power. But when we trust in God, we can will to have the
power we need. When we sincerely ask God for it, we can receive it
abundantly.
Prayer for the day:
I pray that I may will to have God's power. I pray that I may keep
praying for the strength I need.
A Visit with Jesus
I will pay a visit to Jesus at least once each day. In my own words I will
tell Jesus that I believe that He is truly present in the tabernacle and
that I adore Him, as He is my God. I will talk to Him about any joy or
trouble I have had since my last visit. I will say a short prayer, for
instance: "Jesus, my God, I adore Thee here truly present in the Sacrament
of Thy love." Amen.
Reach Up
"Ye, though I walk through the valley of shadow of death, I will fear no
evil."
The journey each of us walks is not always a meadow full of flowers.
Sometimes it is a journey up a mountain, loose rocks and steep inclines.
We so often loose sight of the beautiful scenery because of our attempts to
hold on. We have to struggle with many things in this world that makes us
feel alone.
Arthritis grips us tight and wrenches pain from within. Diabetes cuts our
feelings ulcerates our skin. Cancer files away at the cells of our body and
leaves us weak. Blindness takes away our vision and paints our world black.
Mental disabilities hold our thoughts and leave us in a lonely room. Cruelty
of others cuts our hearts and leaves us empty.
We were born to celebrate, to reach up and believe. We were born to rejoice,
to lift our hands to life. We were born to sing, to paint rainbows with our
voice. We were born to love, to hold the hands of gentleness. We were born
to share, to be a blessing to those around us.
Reach up, my friend and believe for that is God's dream. Lift your hands, my
friend and live for that is God's purpose. Paint your world, my friend with
songs for that is God's compassion. Hold on, my friend with gentleness for
that is God's love. Bless those around you, my friend for you are God's
gift.
No less than a flower planted by angels and nurtured by the hands of God.
Author Unknown
A BUG'S LIFE
By Lisa Suhay
Cricket was always fretting.
"Everyone is listening," she chirped. "Every note must be perfect."
Cricket had a gift for reaching others with her music. She could
change her tune to suit her listener. She could perk you up with a
bouncy melody, liven your step with a reel or jig or calm you with a
hymn or ballad. That responsibility had begun to weigh cricket's
heart. Her tone became shrill.
"Can't you see I am busy?," she would screech. "Don't you know that
everyone is depending on me?"
Everyone around could hear her atonal whinges.
"What horrid noise!" groaned the caterpillar. "
The other insects agreed. Something was wrong with their reliable and
once harmonious
friend. They decided to ask the one who had the most wisdom, the
praying mantis. "Mmmm," he said. "I shall see about this."
Praying mantis sent cricket an invitation to tea. Cricket was so
worried.
"It must be perfect," she shrilled. "He must be in need. I can't let
him down!"
Upon arriving, cricket tried to sense mantis's mood. He appeared at
peace. Finally, she asked what it was he needed of her.
The mantis said, "You have been given a very great gift..."
Cricket interrupted, "Thank you. You are too kind. I am only here to
serve."
"Yes you are," mantis said solemnly. "Unfortunately you have been
rather a poor tool of late."
Cricket was so horrified and overwhelmed that she began to cry.
"But I tried so hard," she said miserably. "I have worked until
exhaustion trying to do well."
"That is just the problem," mantis said. "You are trying too hard. You
are an instrument, but you have taken yourself out of the master's
hands and tried to wield yourself. Like a violin leaping from the
hands of the virtuoso in the midst of a concert and playing a jingle."
Mantis told cricket to think back to when she first began to play her
tunes for others. "What were you thinking of then?" he said.
Cricket realized that she hadn't been thinking of anything. She had
simply seen someone and felt happy or sad or compassionate and her
music had come from her soul to fill the air and heal the others
around her.
"Think back to what happened to make you leap off on your own," he
added.
Cricket pondered. "I lost faith and stopped trusting what guided me
and began to fear," she said.
Fear turned to panic and panic to anger and anger turned to fear
again.
"Take your faith back with you to your family and friends and you will
soon change your tune," said mantis.
I put this on the last thread in my responses to you and I'll put it here
too:
Prayer for Protection (especially from flu)
O Holy Virgin Mary, conceived without sin, I choose thee this day to be the
Lady and Mistress of our home, and I pray thee, in the name of the Most
Precious Blood of Jesus, thy Divine Son, and of thy Immaculate Conception,
to preserve it from fire and lightning, from tempests and thieves, from
cholera, influenza, diphtheria, malaria, and all other contagious and
pestilential diseases.
Bless and protect every member of our family, preserve us from sin, from
sudden and unprovided death, and from all other evils and accidents, in the
name and through the merits of the most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus
Christ. Amen.
Healing Prayer
Dear God:
Be my redeemer, my internal teacher, my divine physician.
Thank You for your presence in my life.
I surrender to You all I am, all I think, all I feel, and all I have.
I recognize in this moment that Yours is the power to heal and make whole.
You who have the power to work miracles,
You who rule time and space, please take me in Your arms and hold me.
Dear Lord, please lift me up and heal me.
Cast out of my mind all thoughts that are not of You.
Cast out of me all harsh and critical nature.
Cast out of me all violence and all anger.
Cast out of me all demons from my past.
For I would be made new.
I wish to walk so close to You that we might be as one.
I ask for new life, new mind, new body, new spirit.
Dear God, please come into me and release me from this pain.
Amen.
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