Community Chat

[DoubleJ]

A blessing is an explosion of joy from God that ripples through your heart
and fills
your mind with God's light and hope. Lord, help me speak the words of
blessing
when they are needed by someone who is lonely, or who is dying or who is
depressed.

Scripture for the day:

"But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and
persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act--they will be
blessed in their doing." ~James 1:25

Meditation for the day:

When something happens to upset us and we are discouraged, we can try to
feel that life's difficulties and troubles are not intended to arrest
our progress in the spiritual life, but to test our strength and to
increase our determination to keep going. Whatever it is that must be
met, we can either overcome it or use it. Nothing need daunt us for
long, nor need any difficulty entirely overcome or conquer us. God's
strength is always there, waiting for us to use it. Nothing can be too
great to be overcome, or if not overcome, then used.

Prayer for the day:

I pray that I may know that there can be no failure with God. I pray
that with God's help I may live a more victorious life.

Hello my friends! Today was nice that we could have Mass in our own parish
at 10:30 before he went to work, and it was a shorter day for him. We
worked that out with his boss that we can have Sunday mornings off for
Church. Ollie was fine through the night - slept with us, and today he was
mellowed out, and he napped more. But to go to Mass this morning I tied him
up to the piano bench and he chewed thru the leash and got free! I didn't
see anything that he had gotten into though. Now he's home and we are more
relaxed. Sammy is still limping, this morning we couldn't get medicine down
him no how! But later on at 1:30 or so, with chicken I did manage to get
his pain med and antibiotic down, way past it's time though. Now tonight
we'll give it at around 7:30 so he won't get 3 of them during this 24 hours.
We decided to wait before get him steroids and give his meds more time to
see if time helps. Also we are praying for the little guy for his healing!
May God bless him with no more pain, and no more fluid in his leg. Thanks to
Juanita for sending me your replies! How I miss seeing them on the thread
and my not being able to respond. Marmot! Welcome to our thread! Thanks
for your tip on getting medicine in him. I've tried with his favorite
pieces with it inside, but he caught on to it, or it smells, I don't know,
but this morning he wouldn't even try to eat. I'll try your method for sure
next. Thanks so much for coming here, and God bless you and each one of
you. Praying for all of you for your needs, and thanks for praying for
ours.



WITH GOD EVERYTHING'S POSSIBLE, INCLUDING THE CORRECTION OF OUR PAST
MISTAKES

How's this for a prayer: "O my God! Source of all mercy! I acknowledge Your
sovereign power. While recalling the wasted years that are past, I believe
that You, Lord, can in an instant turn this loss to gain. Miserable as I am,
yet I firmly believe that You can do all things. Please restore to me the
time lost, giving me Your grace, both now and in the future, that I may
appear before You in 'wedding garments.' Amen."

It's from St. Teresa of Avila. We spoke about this a year ago: how with God
all is possible and how we can even ask Him to go into our pasts and correct
wrong things we did or didn't do (especially to others).

How potent! We can redeem ourselves now -- through His grace.

Who doesn't have things they would like to reverse? There are times we hurt
others. There are times we didn't do enough. There are times we said the
wrong thing -- or didn't say the right thing. There are times we committed
sin.

Turn time back. For Him, there is no time. With God, all is possible.

And anyway, we know that the Memorare can be called the "prayer of the
impossible." We have that tool also!

When we right a wrong -- with our whole hearts -- in God's Eyes (after
expiation) it is changed. Did you waste time? Did you neglect things? Have
you offended (who has not)? Go back and ask God to fix that too. Pray that
the results He expected occur despite your lapse. He can work this!

We also have the powerful novena called "Our Lady, Undoer of Knots." This
prayer asks the Blessed Mother to untie knots we have created. As the author
of a booklet on it explains, "Our lives are a jumble of knots! Knots in our
personal lives, family lives, work lives. Knots big and small that we or
others formed, that chain us, leave us vulnerable, fragile, timorous,
enslaved, unhappy. Knots of anguish, of fear, knots of depression, which we
cannot untie. Knots in our relationships with our spouses, parents,
children, brothers, sisters."

Go back and fix them.

You'll feel harmony. You'll feel relief. Why harbor anxiety?

In prayer, go back through your life and send love where you should have
sent love and embrace those you should not have rejected. It counts! In this
way too, you recover your full mission, your full destiny.

Ask Mary, ask the Lord, to unknot your past. Make things right. Turn
radiant. Call Heaven. The area code is "Jesus I trust in You" and the number
is "Mary take over."

[resources: Our Lady Undoer of Knots and Mary Take Over]

Bless me, O Lord

Heavenly Father, Almighty God.
I humble myself before your Presence. What a joy it is to come to you.
I thank you and I praise for your infinite Majesty, Omnipotence and
Perfections.
Please forgive me all my sins.
Lord I come to you in my nothingness.
I want to worship you and adore you, to love you with all my heart,
with all my mind, with all my soul and with all my strength.
I want to burn with desire for you like an angel.
I need you my Lord, I am nothing without you.
I ask you to raise me before your Glory.
Shine your light upon me, allow me to walk with you and always do your Holy
Will ,
protect me and bless me O Merciful Lord.
Fill me with your Holy Spirit, grant me peace, love and joy.
Heal me, bless me and sanctify me O Lord; make me a blessing for all those
around me.
Amen.

Rainbow
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow....
you have to put up with the rain.

What soap is to the body....
laughter is to the soul.

Fill your cup with kindness....
and give it to yourself.

Help others get ahead.
You will always stand taller with
someone else on your shoulders.

You cannot do kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Each day, rise, shine and sparkle,
and you'll make the whole world a much brighter place.

If you can't make it through one door,
I'll go through another door or
I'll create a door.


Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Think highly of yourself, because the world takes you at your own estimate.

A positive attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others, Be
a carrier.

Remember: You deserve a little lift!
There is always chocolate and a better tomorrow.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it
principally in one place.

Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.


In matters of style, swim with the current.
In matters of principle stand like a rock. -

Thomas Jefferson.