To send this card: Saints Marcellinus & Peter

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Well, the best laid plans of mice and nuns.... the new card site is on hold. Problems. Yep. Right here in River City. Big ones, little one.. problems.... so lah de dah... give us another week or two and we shall try again.

All weekend long I kept getting automated messages from the Doctor's office with an important message for Margery Proctor (my mom) and to call this number. I call the number. It says to get this message you will need a med number. I don't have a med number. So I hang up. Thanks automated messages that make you worry for nothing... you can't even yell at them. They don't care. I think my mom is okay.. because the place she is at watches her very closely - and tomorrow (Monday) I shall find out what that important automated Medical message was.

One good thing - I got the pond fountain to flow the best it has all Spring. I think I am getting the hang of priming the pumps and cleaning out stuff.. and that gives me a good measure of satisfaction. Course better not take too much credit... I was calling on the Blessed Mother and my guardian angel quite a bit... together we got it! I don't think I call on my guardian angel enough.

Sister Colleen's parents are here and Lillian (her mother) was telling us how she kept the deer off of her roses and tomato plants. She had tried all sorts of things and finally just told her guardian angel to watch over them. Not a nother nibble from the deer. In the fall when the last tomato was taken in - she told her guardian angel it was okay now.. and the next morning the deer came and ate all the leaves off the tomoato plants. So that little story has convinced me I'm not calling on my angel enough.

I have something to share with you. I got this quote today from my spiritual director. It is very good. It might just be what you need too.

"It helps, now and then,
to step back and take the long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts;
it is even beyond our view.
We accomplish in our lifetime
only a fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God"s work.
Nothing we do is complete,
which is another way of saying the kingdom always lies beyond us.
We plan the seeds that one day will grow;
We water the seeds already planted,
knowing they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We cannot do everything and there is a sense of liberation realizing that.
We may never see the results,
but that is the difference between the master building (God) and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders;
ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
Amen"
Archbp.Oscar Romero

Blessings of Peace and All Good,
Sister Patricia and all the Sisters