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[gloriajean]

Our time here is short and there is still so much to be done. Lord, please
let me do a little more for You today so that the world may be a little
better because of me.


Scripture for the day:

"Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Let your good spirit
lead me on a level path. For your name's sake, O LORD, preserve my
life. In your righteousness bring me out of trouble. In your
steadfast love cut off my enemies, and destroy all my adversaries,
for I am your servant." ~Psalm 143:10-12

Meditation for the day:

When we are honestly trying to live the way we believe Gods wants
us to live, we can get guidance from God in times of quiet
communion. We can direct our thoughts toward God's will and all
good thing. The attitude of "Your will be done" leads to clear
guidance. We can act on this guidance and we can be led to better
things. Our impulses can seem to become less our own and more the
leading of God's spirit acting through our thoughts. Obeyed, they
can bring us the answers to our prayers.

Prayer for the day:

I pray that I may try to think God's thoughts after God. I pray
that my thoughts maybe guided by God's thoughts.

Hello my friends! Today has been a nice, relaxing one, again starting off
with Mass, coffee and breakfast at leisure, prayers, and then it rained, so
his weeding waited until after the rain.
Thanks for posting your blessings on the last thread - truly appreciate it -
that's what this is all about, right? Just posting our everyday blessings we
don't want to take for granted, but give thanks for. It was a blessing to
receive an email from Sister LaDonna saying she's better now, her cough is
better, and being she has no more fever she can go about outside her room.
She is sleeping better, that's great! Wish I'd hear that good news from
Darla - still has that insomnia - how does one get rid of that anyway?
Please remember her in your prayers. She is on the phone now with her Dad
talking Wedding plans - errands she wants him to do for her. The truffles
arrived today - she ordered for the Wedding, we're supposed to keep them out
of the sun, and cool - just so they don't melt. Wishing you all a very,
happy and positive Thursday everyone with lots of God's blessings.
Thanks for your prayers for us - be assured you are all daily in my prayers.

Mother Teresa Said...
We are all capable of good and evil. We are not born bad: everybody has
something good inside. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there. God
created us to love and to be loved, so it is our test from God to choose one
path or another.

PERSEVERANCE

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, living and life-giving fountain of eternal life,
infinite treasure of the Divinity, and glow furnace of love, You are my
sanctuary. O adorable and glorious Savior, consume my heart with that
burning fire that ever inflames Your Heart.
Pour down on my soul those graces which flow from Your Love. Let my heart be
one with, and in all things conformed to, Yours.
May Your Will be the rule of both my desires and my actions. AMEN.

Strength and Courage
It takes strength to be certain,
It takes courage to have doubts.

It takes strength to fit in,
It takes courage to stand out.

It takes strength to share a friend's pain,
It takes courage to feel your own pain.

It takes strength to hide your own pain,
It takes courage to show it and deal with it.

It takes strength to stand guard,
It takes courage to let down your guard.

It takes strength to conquer,
It takes courage to surrender.

It takes strength to endure abuses,
It takes courage to stop them.

It takes strength to stand alone,
It takes courage to lean on a friend.

It takes strength to love,
It takes courage to be loved.

It takes strength to survive,
It takes courage to live.

May you find strength and courage
in everything you do,
And may your life be filled with
Friendship and Love!


- Author Unknown

Who Does God's Work Will Get God's Pay

Who does God's work will get God's pay.
However long may seem the day,
However weary be the way.
Though powers may thunder "Nay"
No human hand God's hand may stay,
Who does God's work will get His pay.

God hurries not, nor makes delay,
Who works for Him, will get His pay,
Some certain hour, some certain day.
He does not pay as others pay
In gold or land or raiment gay,
In goods that perish and decay,
But God's high wisdom knows a way,
And this is sure, let come what may,
Who does God's work will get God's pay.

Move Your Mind Forward

Whatever you dwell upon in your mind, you give power to. So of course it
makes sense to focus on what you want rather than what you don't want. Yet
there are many ways in which the things you don't want can sneak into your
thinking.

Worry and doubt focus your thinking on what you don't want. Rather than
worrying about the bad things that might happen, direct your actions toward
making positive things happen.

Complaining can also get your mind sidetracked into thinking about what you
don't want. What do you complain about? The things you don't like. Rather
than complaining, take action. Action moves you toward what you do want.

Anger is one more way to get your thinking negatively directed. Rather than
getting angry about what you don't like, use that energy to give you
determination for what you want to achieve.

Keep your mind positively focused on the good things that life can offer.
Those things will grow stronger and more abundant in your world.

~ Author Unknown ~



The Difference

I got up early one morning
and rushed right into the day.
I had so much to accomplish
that I didn't have time to pray.

Problems just tumbled about me,
and heavier came each task.
I wondered "Why doesn't God help me?"
He answered, "You didn't ask."

I wanted to see joy and beauty,
but the day toiled gray and bleak;
I wondered why God didn't show me.
He said, "But you didn't seek."

I tried to come into God´s presence;
I used all my keys at the lock.
God gently and lovingly chided,
"My child, you didn't knock."

I woke early this morning,
and paused before entering the day;
I had so much to accomplish
that I had to take time to pray.

Remember this one?

The Dress of Love
================

"Do you like my dress?" she asked of a passing stranger.
"My mommy made it just for me." She said with a tear in her eye.

"Well, I think it's very pretty, so tell me little one, why are you crying?"

With a quiver in her voice the little girl answered. "After Mommy made me
this dress, she had to go away."

"Well, now," said the lady, "with a little girl like you waiting for her,
I'm sure she'll be right back."

"No ma'am, you don't understand," said the child through her tears, "my
Daddy said that she's up in heaven now with Grandfather."

Finally the woman realized what the child meant, and why she was crying.

Kneeling down she gently cradled the child in her arms and together they
cried for the mommy that was gone.

Then suddenly the little girl did something that the woman thought was a
bit strange.

She stopped crying, stepped back from the woman and began to sing. She
sang so softly that it was almost a whisper. It was the sweetest sound the
woman had ever heard, almost like the song of a very small bird.

After the child stopped singing she explained to the lady, "My mommy used
to sing that song to me before she went away, and she made me promise to
sing it whenever I started crying and it would make me stop." "See," she
exclaimed, "it did, and now my eyes are dry!"

As the woman turned to go, the little girl grabbed her sleeve, "Lady, can
you stay just a minute? I want to show you something."

"Of course," she answered, "what do you want me to see?"

Pointing to a spot on her dress, she said, "Right here is where my Mommy
kissed my dress, and here," pointing to another spot, "and here is another
kiss, and here, and here, Mommy said that she put all those kisses on my
dress so that I would have her kisses for every boo-boo that made me cry."

Then the lady realized that she wasn't just looking at a dress, no, she
was looking at a Mother who knew that she was going away and would not be
there to kiss away the hurts that she knew her daughter would get. So she
took all the love she had for her beautiful little girl and put them into
this
dress, that her child now so proudly wore. She no longer saw a little girl
in a
simple dress, she saw a child wrapped in her Mother's love.



To Give the Special Blessing

The Special Blessing may be passed on by anyone
to others in person or at a distance in prayer.
If in person, place your hands on the person's head
with your right thumb on his/her forehead. If at a
distance, hold your hands over, or in the direction of,
the person or group and pray:

May the Reign of Jesus King of All Nations be
recognized in your heart;
May the Reign of Jesus King of All Nations be lived
in your heart;
May the Reign of Jesus King of All Nations be
given through your heart to other hearts;
So that the Reign of Jesus King of All Nations
may be lived in every heart all over the world.
I ask this Special Blessing through Our Lady,
Mediatrix of All Graces, who as Queen and Mother
of All Nations, has obtained it for you as a
tremendous grace from the Sacred Heart of her
Divine Son, in the name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Make the sign of the cross on the person's forehead
with your thumb, or make the sign of the cross with
your hand in his/her direction.

The gifts of the Special Blessing are the gift of
receiving, understanding, and living Jesus' Word
in Scripture; the gifts of intimacy with Jesus, Mary,
and souls as partners in the Body of Christ; and
the gift of knowing the secrets of God's love. The
blessing also grants healing and brings unity to
the Body of Christ.

Jesus wants everyone to receive the graces of this
kingly Special Blessing. Pray for it for your family,
your friends, your priests, the lost, the sick,
the dying ---- everyone who is in need of God's mercy.