Hello my friends! Nice day today - I froze more strawberries! We are going to Lori's for supper tonight and help her get things ready for her bon fire party tomorrow night. She's so busy working she needs her parent's help! Weeding in her garden Linus did today already and there's more! We'll see what she has planned for me to do tonight besides bringing supper as she has no time to cook. It'll be just a simple supper. Bobbiesue - if you read this, PLEASE go to your priest for the Anointing of the Sick again, there's always healing in that, you know. I just talked to my friend, Wanda, who has cancer and had her first chemo treatment a couple weeks ago, she had a reaction last week and was a week in the hospital!! She's home now, and says what a blessing it is that her son from Washington came back home when he found out she had cancer, sold everything there, and is living with her with his wife who is so good to Wanda, they were there for her to take her to ER when she needed to be admitted. Before she had cancer, she hadn't seen him in four years!!! She says that now she does have an appetite, but as soon as the food goes down, it tastes awful! So I told her I'll pray she gets her taste back and told her that I truly believe she will lick this cancer! Please add Wanda to your powerful prayers!!! Thanks loads. And Felicia - who is having an eight hour surgery today with eight days in the hospital following needs a lot of prayers, too. Her post is two threads ago. May God heal the sick, we pray!!
Too often our efforts stand in the way of coming to Christ. Lord, help me
know my weakness and surrender to Your strength.
Scripture for the day:
"You must follow exactly the path that the LORD your God has commanded
you, so that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that
you may live long in the land that you are to possess." ~Deuteronomy
5:33
Meditation for the day:
Our real work in life is to grow spiritually. To do this we can follow
the path of diligently seeking good. The hidden spiritual wonders are
revealed to those who diligently seek this treasure. From one point to
the next, we can follow the way of obedience to God's will until finally we
reach greater and greater spiritual heights. Work on the material plane
can be secondary to our real life's work. The material things which we
need most are those which help us to attain the spiritual.
Prayer for the day:
I pray that I may keep growing spiritually. I pray that I may make this
my real life's work.
The Jesus Prayer
O my Divine Savior, transform me into yourself.
May my hands be the hands of Jesus.
May my tongue be the tongue of Jesus,
Grant that every faculty of my body may serve only to glorify you.
Above all, transform my soul and all its powers,
that my memory, my will and my affections
may be the memory, the will and the affections of Jesus.
I pray you to destroy in me all that is not you.
Grant that I may live but in you and for you,
and that I may truly say with St. Paul:
"I live, now not I, but Christ lives in me" (Gal 2:20).
LORD, PROP US UP
Author Unknown
Every time I am asked to pray, I think of the old deacon who always
prayed, Lord, prop us up on our leanin' side.'
After hearing him pray that prayer many times, someone asked him why
he prayed that prayer so fervently.
He answered, 'Well sir, you see, it's like this....I got an old barn
out back. It's been there a long time, it's withstood a lot of
weather, it's gone through a lot of storms, and it's stood for many
years. It's still standing, but one day I noticed it was leaning to
one side a bit. So I went and got some pine poles and propped it up on
its leaning side so it wouldn't fall.
Then I got to thinking 'bout that and how much I was like that old
barn. I been around a long time, I've withstood a lot of life's
storms, I've withstood a lot of bad weather in life, I've withstood a
lot of hard times, and I'm still standing too. But I find myself
leaning to one side from time to time, so I like to ask the Lord to
prop us up on our leaning side, 'cause I figure a lot of us get to
leaning, at times.'
Sometime we get to leaning toward anger, leaning toward bitterness,
leaning toward hatred, leaning toward cussing, leaning toward a lot of
things that we shouldn't, so we need to pray, 'Lord, prop us up on our
leaning side,' so we will stand straight and tall again, to glorify
the Lord.
Prayer of Trust
By St. Aloysius Gonzaga
O Holy Mary, my Mistress!
I commend my soul and body
unto thy blessed and special trust today
and every day,
and at the hour of my passing hence.
To thee I entrust all my hope and consolation,
all my anguish and miseries,
my life and the end of my life,
that through thy most holy intercession
and thy merits,
all my actions may be
directed and disposed according
to thy will and that of thy Son.
Amen.
Whisper Jesus
Today I got a burden,
And I felt that I should pray
For God's spirit seemed to tell me,
That you needed prayer today.
I don't know what the problem is,
But I sure do know the cure
And if you'll only let Him
God will keep you safe and secure.
In life there's always problems
Cropping up to spoil our day
But my friend you know the answer
All you have to do is pray.
If you still feel you're defeated
And you want to run and hide
Just reach out and I'll be there
Standing right there by your side.
So remember, Whisper Jesus,
For He's just a prayer away,
He's so close that you can touch Him
All you have to do is pray.
(author unknown)
It's in the silence of the soul,
Where peace and wisdom stay
to guide us through the din and strife
confronting us each day.
God placed this gift within us
with his loving Grace
knowing that we need His love
when trials of life we face
This strength will gently guide us
his live will see us through
releasing gifts of faith and hope
to bear what we must do
WHAT DO ANGELS LOOK LIKE?
Author Unknown
Like the little old lady who returned your wallet yesterday.
Like the taxi driver who told you that your eyes light up the world,
when you smile.
Like the small child who showed you the wonder in simple things.
Like the poor man who offered to share his lunch with you.
Like the rich man who showed you that it really is all possible, if
only you believe.
Like the stranger who just happened to come along, when you had lost
your way.
Like the friend who touched your heart, when you didn't think you had
one.
Angels come in all sizes and shapes, all ages and skin types.
Some with freckles, some with dimples, some with wrinkles, some
without.
They come disguised as friends, enemies teachers, students, lovers
and fools.
They don't take life too seriously, they travel light.
They leave no forwarding address, they ask nothing in return.
They are hard to find when your eyes are closed, but when you choose
to see, they are everywhere you look.
So, open you eyes and count all your Angels -- for you are truly
blessed!
Meditations by Padre Pio
I would prefer to be stabbed with a steel blade, rather than offend someone
(T 45).
Mother Teresa Said...
People who are unloved and unwanted are, just like us, children of God. Even
more, they are Christ in our midst and they belong to us. They are our
brothers and sisters.
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