Hello my friends! Kind of busy today - 10:30 Mass - 1:30 - play cards - home at 4:30, and we won! Beautiful Fall Day again! In the low 60's. We've had alot of blessings today - on the way to play cards, a phone call from Darla! And relaxing time after we got home. Not much to add - but God's graces and blessings are everywhere and we won't take them for granted. Praying for all your needs! Always!!
Be inspired to try something new and much of what you dream can
become your life. Lord, thank you for giving me the freedom of choice,
and grant me the courage to experience my opportunities and create
new ones.
Scripture for the day:
"There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every
affair under the heavens." ~Ecclesiastes 3:1
Meditation for the day:
There is a time for everything. We can learn to wait patiently until
the right time comes. Easy does it. We can waste our energies in
trying to get things before we are ready to have them, before we have
earned the right to receive them. A great lesson we have to learn is
how to wait with patience. We can believe that all our life is a
preparation for something better to come when we have earned the right
to it. We can believe that God has a plan for our lives and that this
plan will work out in the
fullness of time.
Prayer for the day:
I pray that I may learn the lesson of waiting patiently. I pray that
I may not expect things until I have earned the right to have them.
A PRAYER TO OUR LADY FOR HEALING
Mary Immaculate, you have given yourself to us as our Lady of the Miraculous
Medal. You have asked us to pray with confidence, and we will receive great
graces. We know your compassion, because you saw your Son suffer and die for
us. In your union with his suffering you became the mother of us all.
Mary, my mother, teach me to understand my suffering as you do and to endure
it in union with the suffering of Jesus. In your motherly love, calm my
fears and increase my trust in God's loving care.
According to God's plan, obtain for me the healing I need. Intercede with
your Son that I may have the strength I need to work for God's glory and the
salvation of the world. Amen.
When I said
When I said to the Lord "I am so short of where you want me to be."
He gently answered "That's okay. That's all the farther you and I can
walk together."
When I said to the Lord "I don't know who I am."
He gently answered "That's okay. I know who you are."
When I said to the Lord "I am so tired of fighting."
He gently answered "That's okay. Satan is down for the count."
When I said to the Lord "My actions aren't reflecting my heart."
He gently answered "That's okay. Mine did."
When I said to the Lord "My mind is corrupted."
He gently answered "That's okay. Use mine for awhile."
When I said to the Lord "I don't know how to love."
He gently answered "That's okay. I will give you free lessons"
~author unknown
Jesus Help Me
Jesus Help me. In every need let me come to you with a humble trust saying,
Jesus help me. In all my doubts, perplexities and temptations, Jesus help
me. In hours of loneliness, weariness and trials, Jesus help me. In failure
of my plans and hopes, in disappointments, troubles and sorrows, Jesus help
me.
When others fail me and your grace alone can assist me, Jesus help me. When
I throw myself on your tender love, as my Lord and Savior, Jesus help me.
When my heart is cast down by failure at seeing no good coming from my
efforts, Jesus help me.
When I am ill and my head and hands cannot work and I am lonely, Jesus help
me. Always, Always, in spite of weariness, falls and shortcomings of every
kind, Jesus help me and never forsake me.
Almighty Lord, before you I come with all my faith, begging you for comfort
in my difficulties. Do not forsake me, My Lord. Open your doors, that your
almighty arms will open and close as you design to give that tranquility
that I so desire.
Oh my God! Receive my supplication from a wounded heart that is always
fighting for me with your Divine power. Never let me scramble for want of
help.
Almighty Lord, assist me to find shelter in your celestial bounty forever.
Amen
THE ROSE
Author Unknown
Red roses were her favorites,
Her name was also Rose,
And every year her husband sent them,
tied with pretty bows.
The year he died,
the roses were delivered to her door.
The card said, "Be my Valentine,"
like all the years before.
Each year he sent her roses,
and the note would always say,
"I love you even more this year,
than last year on this day.
My love for you will always grow,
with every passing year."
She knew this was the last time
that the roses would appear.
She thought, he ordered roses
in advance before this day.
Her loving husband did not know,
that he would pass away.
He always liked things early,
way before the time.
Then if he got too busy,
everything would work out fine.
She trimmed the stems,
and placed them in a very special vase.
Then, sat the vase
beside the portrait of his smiling face.
She would sit for hours,
in her husband's favorite chair.
While staring at his picture,
and the roses sitting there.
A year went by,
and it was hard to live without her mate.
With loneliness and solitude,
that had become her fate.
Then that very hour,
as on Valentine's before,
The doorbell rang, and there were roses,
sitting by her door.
She brought the roses in,
and just looked at them in shock.
Then, she went to get the telephone,
to call the florist shop.
The owner answered, and she asked him,
if he would explain,
Why would someone do this to her,
causing her such pain?
"I know your husband passed away,
more than a year ago,"
The owner said, "I knew you'd call,
and you would want to know.
The flowers you received today,
were paid for in advance,
your husband always planned ahead,
he left nothing to chance.
There is a standing order,
that I have on file down here,
as he has paid, well in advance,
you'll get them every year.
There is also another thing,
that I think you should know,
He wrote a special little card...he did this years ago,
Then should I find out that he's no longer here,
That's the card...that should be sent to you the following year."
She thanked him and hung up the phone,
her tears now flowing hard.
Her fingers shaking, as she slowly
reached to get the card.
Inside the card, she saw that he
had written her a note.
Then, as she stared in total silence,
this is what he wrote...
"Hello my love, I know
it's been a year since I've been gone,
I hope it hasn't been too hard
for you to overcome.
I know it must be lonely,
and the pain is very real.
Or if it was the other way,
I know how I would feel.
The love we shared made everything
so beautiful in life,
I loved you more than words can say,
you were the perfect wife.
You were my friend and lover,
you fulfilled my every need.
I know it's only been a year,
but please try not to grieve.
I want you to be happy,
even when you shed your tears.
That is why the roses
will be sent to you for years.
When you get these roses,
think of all the happiness,
that we had together,
and how both of us were blessed.
I have always loved you,
and you know I always will.
But my love, you must go on,
you have some living still.
Please... try to find happiness,
while living out your days.
I know it is not easy,
but I hope you find some ways.
The roses will come every year,
and they will only stop,
When your door's not answered,
when the florist stops to knock.
He will come five times that day,
in case you have gone out.
But after his last visit,
he will know without a doubt.
To take the roses to the place,
where I've instructed him.
And place them where we are,
together once again.
Sometimes in life, you find a special friend;
Someone who changes your life just by being part of it.
Someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop;
Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world.
Someone who convinces you that there really is
an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it.
This is forever friendship.
ALL WE REALLY NEED TO KNOW WE LEARNED FROM NOAH'S ARK
Author Unknown
1. Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
2. Stay fit. When you're 600 years old, someone might ask you to do
something REALLY big.
3. Don't listen to critics -- do what has to be done.
4. Build on high ground.
5. For safety's sake, travel in pairs.
6. Two heads are better than one.
7. Speed isn't always an advantage. The cheetahs were on board, but so
were the snails.
8. If you can't fight or flee -- float!
9. Take care of your animals as if they were the last ones on earth.
10. Don't forget that we're all in the same boat.
11. When the doo-doo gets really deep, don't sit there and complain --
shovel!!!
12. Stay below deck during the storm.
13. Remember that the ark was built by amateurs and the Titanic was
built by professionals.
14. If you have to start over, have a friend by your side.
15. Remember that the woodpeckers INSIDE are often a bigger threat
than the storm outside.
16. Don't miss the boat.
17. No matter how bleak it looks, there's always a rainbow on the
other side.
18. "Stop what you are doing, and do what God says!"
You Give me Strength
Holy Spirit when I am weak, You give me strength to carry on.
You comfort me each time I seek Your loving arms to lean on.
You are the Father that I need. You have the wisdom that I lack.
You give me courage to succeed, when I alone, would have turned back.
I may have crosses in my life, but I will never know despair;
for when I seek you in my strife, I know so well you will be there.
SPECIAL BEATITUDES
Author Unknown
SPECIAL BEATITUDES for those who work with special people
BLESSED ARE YOU who take time to listen to difficult speech
FOR YOU help us know that if we persevere, we can be understood.
BLESSED ARE YOU who walk with us in public places and ignore the
stares of strangers,
FOR in your companionship, we find havens of relaxation.
BLESSED ARE YOU who never bid us "hurry up" and more blessed, you who
do not snatch our tasks from our hands to do them for us
FOR often we need time rather than help.
BLESSED ARE YOU who stand beside us as we enter new and untried
ventures,
FOR our failures will be outweighed by times when we surprise
ourselves and you.
BLESSED ARE YOU who ask for our help
FOR our greatest need is to be needed.
BLESSED ARE YOU who help us with the graciousness of Christ.
FOR oftentimes we need the help we cannot ask for.
BLESSED ARE YOU when, by all these things you assure us that the thing
that makes us individuals is not in our peculiar muscles, not in our
wounded nervous systems, nor in our difficulties in learning
BUT in the God-given self which no infirmity can confine.
REJOICE AND BE EXCEEDINGLY GLAD, and know that you give us
reassurances that could never be spoken in words,
FOR you deal with us as Christ dealt with all His children.
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