Hello my friends! Well today's blessings for me was trying to stay off my feet as much as I could, but got a pork roast done for supper when he got home from work, with the potatoes and carrots etc. from the cream can dinner left overs, turned out super delicious! I'm freezing alot of them now, and I looked up how to freeze cabbage, so will be doing that tomorrow. It's easy. First I used the food processor and I sliced all the potatoes and carrots that were left, makes for easy eating and storing. Then when the pork roast was almost finished, or maybe it was finished, I dumped a bunch of those veggies in it, just to heat up, delicious!! We had some wine with our dinner! Didn't get a nap in, but plan on getting to bed early. Another blessing was I didn't get leg cramps last night. I did put peppermint essential oil on my legs first before going to bed and I think that prevented it. Praise the Lord for working through these natural products! Praying for you all - and thanks for your posts!! All posts are greatly appreciated indeed!!! Thank you and God bless you and hear your prayers!
Do not worry about tomorrow. Do you not have enough to be busy with
today? Lord, help me use today wisely so that I have time for myself
and others.
Scripture of the day:
"As for that in the good soil, these are the ones who, when they hear
the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit
with patient endurance." ~Luke 8:15
Meditation for the day:
The laws of nature cannot be changed and must be obeyed if we are to
stay healthy. No exceptions can be made in our case. We can submit
to the laws of nature or they will finally break us. And in the realm
of the spirit, in all human relationships, we can submit to the moral
laws and to the will of God. If we continue to break the laws of
honesty, purity, unselfishness and love, we can be broken to some
extent ourselves. The moral and spiritual laws of God, like the laws
of nature, are unbreakable without some disaster. If we are dishonest,
impure, selfish and unloving, we are not living according to the laws
of the spirit and we may suffer the consequences.
Prayer for the day:
I pray that I may submit to the laws of nature and to the laws of God.
I pray that I may live in harmony with all the laws of life.
FIFTEEN MINUTES WITH JESUS
It is not necessary, my son, to know a lot to please me a lot; it is enough
to love me with fervor. Speak to me, simply like you would speak to your
mother, to your brother. Do you need to make me any supplication in favor of
somebody? Tell me their names, that of your parents, or your brothers,
sisters, friends... tell me what you want me to do for them. Pray a lot, a
lot, don't hesitate in requesting; I like the generous hearts that end up
forgetting, in certain way, themselves, to assist the other people's
necessities. Speak this way to me, with simplicity, about the poor to whom
you wanted to console, of the sick persons to whom you see suffering, of the
misplaced ones that you yearn to return to the good way, of the absent
friends that you wanted to see another time to your side. Ask me for a
friendly word for all of them, beloved and fervorous word . Remind me that I
have promised to listen all supplications that comes from the heart; and
shouldn't it come from your heart your prayer for those that your heart
especially love?
And for you, don't you need some grace? Make me, if you want, a list of your
necessities, and come, read it in my presence. Tell me frankly that you feel
arrogance, love to sensuality and pleasure; that you are perhaps selfish,
fickle, negligent...; and ask me to come in help of the efforts, few or
many, that you make to remove of you such miseries.
Do not be embarrassed, poor soul! There are in heaven so many Saints of
first order that had those same defects! But they prayed with humility...;
and little by little they were free of them.
Neither hesitate in requesting me spiritual and corporal goods: health,
memory, success in your works, business or studies; I can give you all that,
I wish you to ask me for it, and I will give it to you, if it is not an
obstacle for your sanctification, on the contrary, if it should help to your
sanctification. Actually, what do you need? what can I do for you? If you
knew the desires that I have of favoring you!
Do you at hand any project right now? Tell me everything minutely. What are
you worried about? what do you think? what do you want? what do you want me
to do for your brother, for your friend, for your superior? what would you
want me to do for them?
And for Me? Don't you feel desires of my glory? Don't you want to be able to
make some good to your neighbours, to your friends that you love a lot, who
may be living forgotten of Me?
Tell me what thing particularly calls your attention today, what you yearn
more vividly, and what sources you have to get it. Tell me if your project
is not successful, and I will tell you the causes of the bad success.
Wouldn't you want me to be interested in your favor? My son, I am the owner
of the hearts, and sweetly I take them, without damage of their freedom,
wherever I want.
Do you maybe feel sadness or bad humor? Tell me, tell me, forlorn soul, your
sadness with all their details. Who did hurt you? Who did hurt your pride?
who has rejected you? Come closer to my Heart that has effective balm to
cure all those wounds of yours. Give me details of everything, and you will
end up shortly telling me that, to likeness of Me, you forgive everything,
you forget all, and in payment you will receive my comforting blessing.
Are you feared? Do you feel in your soul those vague melancholies that far
from being groundless, they leave of being harrowing? Throw yourself in my
arms of providence. I am with you; here, you have me by your side; I see it
all, I hear it all, neither a moment I abandon you.
Do you feel deviation on behalf of people that before loved you well, and
now they move away from you, without giving you the smallest reason? Pray
for them, and I will return them to your side, if they are not an obstacle
to your sanctification.
And don't you have something happy, perhaps, to communicate Me? Why don't
you make me participant as an special friend of yours?
Tell me how your heart has felt consoled and smiley, since yesterday, since
the last visit you made me. You have maybe had pleasant surprises, you have
maybe been dissipated black mistrust, you have maybe received happy news,
some letter or sample of affection; you have conquered some difficulty, or
solved a complicated problem. I've done all that, and I have provided it to
you: why shouldn't you show me your gratitude, and tell me simply, as a son
does to his father: «Thank you, my Father, thank you!»? The gratefulness
bring with itself new benefits, because the benefactor likes to be
corresponded.
Neither you have a promise to make me? I read, you already know it, in the
bottom of your heart. Men are deceived easily; God is not. Speak to me,
then, with all sincerity. Do you have firm resolution of not exposing
yourself to that sin occasion again? of depriving you of that object that
damaged you? of not reading again that book that exalted your imagination?
of not treating again that person that upset the peace of your soul?
Will you be sweet, kind and condescending again with that person that,
because having lacked you, you have considered until today as an enemy?
Now then, my son; return to your usual occupations, to your work, to the
family, to the study... but don't forget the fifteen minutes of pleasing
conversation that we have had both here, in the solitude of the sanctuary.
Keep, as soon as you can, silence, modesty, withdrawal, resignation, charity
with the neighbour.
Love my Mother, who is also yours, the Sacred Virgin, and return again
tomorrow with the most loving heart, more surrendered to my service.
In my Heart, you will find every day new love, new benefits, new comforts.
Mother Teresa Said...
"If we are careful of silence it will be easy to pray and to pray fervently.
There is so much talk, so much repetition,
so much carrying of tales in words and in writing.
Our prayer life must suffer so much because our hearts are not silent,
for as you know "only in the silence of the heart, God speaks."
Only after we have listened can we speak from the fullness of our hearts."
Blessed are you
when you remain available
sharing in simplicity what you possess
Blessed are you
when you weep over the absence of happiness around you
and throughout the world
Blessed are you
when you strive to take the first steps,
the necessary one, to attain peace with
your brothers and sisters, throughout the world
Blessed are you
when you take seriously your faith
in the risen Jesus
- - -
Luke 7:22 - (Jesus said) "The blind can see, the lame can walk, those who
suffer from dreaded skin diseases are made clean, the deaf can hear, the
dead are raised to life, and the Good News is preached to the poor. How
happy are those who have no doubts about me!"
The Enemy's Perfect Plan
Author Unknown
Let's not allow the enemy to distract us...
Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his evil
angels, he said, "We can't keep Christians from going to church. We can't
keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can't even
keep them from conservative values. But we can do something else. We can
keep them from forming an intimate, abiding relationship experience in
Christ. If they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is
broken. So let them go to church, let them have their conservative
lifestyles, but steal their time, so they can't gain that experience in
Jesus Christ. This is what I want you to do, angels. Distract them from
gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection
throughout their day!"
"How shall we do this?" shouted his angels.
"Keep them busy in the nonessentials of life and invent unnumbered schemes
to occupy their minds" he answered. "Tempt them to spend, spend, spend then
borrow, borrow, borrow. Convince the wives to go to work for long hours and
the husbands to work six or seven days a week, ten to twelve hours a day so
they can afford their lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their
children. As their family fragments, soon their homes will offer no escape
from the pressures of work."
"Overstimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still small voice.
Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive, to
keep the TV, VCR, CD's and their PC's going constantly in their homes. And
see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical
music constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with
Christ."
Fill their coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds
with news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards.
Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, sweepstakes, mail order catalogues,
and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering, free products,
services and false hopes."
"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return from
their recreation exhausted, disquieted, and unprepared for the coming week.
Don't let them go out in nature to reflect on God's wonders. Send them to
amusement parks, sporting events, concerts and movies instead. And when they
meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that
they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotion."
"Let them be involved in soul-winning. But crowd their lives with so many
good causes they have no time to seek power from Christ. Soon they will be
working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family unity for
the good of the cause."
It was quite a convention in the end. And the evil angels went eagerly to
their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busy, busy, busy and
rush here and there.
Has the devil been successful at his schemes? You be the judge.
LIVING YOUR LIFE WITHOUT SIN
Author Unknown
There was a little girl, who's father was a pastor.
One day, she came to her father and said, "Daddy, can a person go their
whole life without sinning?"
The father answered, "No, honey, I'm sorry, but that's just not possible."
"What about a year, daddy? Can a person go a whole year without sinning?"
She continued.
"No, I don't think that's possible either."
"What about a day, can a person go a day without sinning once?"
"It's very unlikely, no, I don't think they can."
"What about one moment, daddy, can a person go one moment without sinning?"
"Yes, that is possible."
"Then daddy, I want to live my life, moment by moment."
Isn't that how we should live our lives. Not looking ahead to our
whole lives, or distant plans. But live moment by moment, as if this
moment where your last one before you reach eternity.
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