Hello my friends! I will be here all weekend as Lori did have to cancel her eye surgery for March sometime. She is so sick - chest cold, coughing, she went to Urgent Care this afternoon and got some anti-biotics and cough medicine with codeine in it, she also had a slight fever. So it's best she stays home and takes care of herself. No surgery would take place anyway with her being sick. We needed new tires, didn't have money for that, but God does provide, and he found out that his tires were still on warranty and he got 4 new tires free!!! Wow! What a blessing that was!! He got a couple small sales too, so that's more blessings!!
It is you, not where you are or what you have, that makes the difference.
Lord, may I always blossom where I am planted.
S C R I P T U R E F O R T H E D A Y
"I will look to the LORD, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God
will hear me." ~Micah 7:7
M E D I T A T I O N F O R T H E D A Y
We can admit our own helplessness. God will hear our prayer. Our own need
can be recognized, then we can ask God for the strength to meet that need.
But once that need is recognized, our prayer is heard above all the music of
heaven. It is not theological arguments that solve the problems of the
questing soul, but the sincere cry of that soul to God for strength and the
certainty of that soul that the cry can be heard and answered.
P R A Y E R F O R T H E D A Y
I pray that I may be humble enough to realize my need and ask for help. I
pray that I may fell certain that God will hear and answer my prayer.
Words of Mother Teresa
A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an
undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate
it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty
in Mary that attracted God’s attention. He showed his great love for the
world by giving Jesus to her.
There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives -
the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor
you may have right in your own family.
Find them.
Love them.
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the
silence of the heart.
Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on
the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own
weakness.
Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in
your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile.
Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the
less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not
mortification, a penance.
It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we
are perfectly happy.
I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I
have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others
in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with
work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.
Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a
great thing.
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves. The fruit
of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is
love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace.
TOMORROW IS NOT PROMISED
Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were
meant to be there, they serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson or
help figure out who you are and who you want to become.
You never know who these people may be: your neighbor, child, long lost
friend, lover, or even a complete stranger who, when you lock eyes with
them, you know at that very moment that they will affect your life in some
profound way.
And sometimes things happen to you and at the time they seem painful and
unfair, but in reflection you realize that without overcoming those
obstacles you would have never realized your potential strength, will power,
or heart.
Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of
good or bad luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and
sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul.
Without these small tests, whether they be events, illnesses or
relationships, life would be like a smoothly paved straight flat road to
nowhere, safe and comfortable, but dull and utterly pointless.
The people you meet who affect your life and the successes and downfalls you
experience create who you are, and even the bad experiences can be learned
from. In fact, they are probably the poignant and important ones.
If someone hurts you, betrays you or breaks your heart, forgive them, for
they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious
to whom you open your heart...
If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they
love you, but because they are teaching you to love and opening your heart
and eyes to things you would have never seen or felt without them.
Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything
that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again...
Talk to people you have never talked to before, and actually listen, let
yourself fall in love, break free and set your sights high...
Hold your head up because you have every right too. Tell yourself you are a
great individual and believe in yourself... for if you don't believe in
yourself, no one else will believe in you either.
Create your own life and then go out and live in it! "Live Each Day As If It
Were Your Last...Tomorrow is Not Promised"
.....Author Unknown
Novena to Obtain Graces Through the Intercession of St. Faustina
O Jesus, Who filled Your servant, St. Faustina, with profound veneration for
Your boundless Mercy, deign, if it be Your holy will, to grant me, through
her intercession, the grace for which I fervently pray.
My sins render me unworthy of Your Mercy, but be mindful of St. Faustina's
spirit of sacrifice and self-denial, and reward her virtue by granting the
petition which, with childlike confidence, I present to You through her
intercession. Amen.
Lord Jesus, Redeemer of all, hear my prayer
For the love You bear
to those who ask forgiveness,
look mercifully on me,
as once You looked on Mary Magdalene
and on Peter who denied You.
Look on me, Lord Jesus Christ,
as You looked on the thief on his cross
and on every sinner
whom You have ever forgiven.
Look on me, merciful Lord,
as You looked on Your mother, Mary,
standing in sorrow beneath Your cross.
Let me feel in my heart her compassion for You,
and let my eyes weep for the sorrows
my sins have caused.
Call me from darkness
to my Father's house,
give me a new heart
and a place at Your side
at the banquet of Your kingdom. Amen
I am sorry, dear Lord...
Don't let me hurt You everyday...
Hear my prayers...
Give me wisdom...
and save me.
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