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Make time to pray.
"The great freight and passenger trains are never
too busy to stop for fuel. No matter how congested the yards may be,
no matter how crowded the schedules are, no matter how many things
demand the attention of the trainmen, those trains always stop for fuel."
M. E. Andross
Quote from the book, "101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer"
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Sr. Colleen came home today. Hurray. Hurray. Sometimes a week seems like a very long time. I was the driver to pick her up from the airport. More detours.. I swear this town is Detour City. Of course it will be nice when the roads are fixed.. but in the meantime.....
Maybe if I was to put a spiritual slant on it (which I wasn't doing while in the middle of driving through them I will tell you) but anyway.. maybe that is how our road is to heaven. Full of detours... maybe God gets impatient with us for all the detours we come up with! Anyway I started out with what I thought would be plenty of time to get there .. but arrived only one minute before the plane (which they said was on time) arrived. Still it took another fifteen minutes before she actually showed up .. so guess God did have everything under control.
Blessings of Peace and All Good,
Sister Patricia
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Jo Ann Mason
Temple, Texas
Several years ago, our twenty-five-year-old son was diagnosed with very serious stage-four cancer. He had become very weak and thin before the diagnosis, so his condition was critical as he began receiving chemotherapy.
Our son had married just six months before this, and his wife was distraught. We all prayed on a daily basis that the doctors would have the wisdom to prepare the right treatment, and that his body would respond well to it.
In about twelve months, he was in remission and was very thankful. He and his wife moved to the mountains in Colorado because he had always wanted to live in snow country and the cancer made him driven to accomplish that.
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Rejoice in Me
by Msgr. David E. Rosage
Restful Waters
Psalm 23:1-2
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
In verdant pastures he gives me repose;
Beside restful waters he leads me;
he refreshes my soul.
Jesus refers to his dwelling within us as "living water." The resful waters to which he leads us is the quiet joy and interior peace of his abiding presence.
We are his sheep. As our Shepherd, he knows that sheep are fearful of rapid-running water; hence he nurtures us in the quiet, prayerful solitude of our own heart.
Jesus assures us that he alone can satisfy our thirst:
"But whoever drinks the water I give him
will never be thirsty;
no the water I give him
shall become a fountain within him,
leaping up to provide eternal life." (Jn 4:14)
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Healthy Eating from Barbara George
Elder Care Diet Tips
Your resource for hints on nutrition and health;
a place to learn and a place to share!
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Changing faces…
Hello everyone. Thanks for continuing to revisit my site even though I haven’t been very active lately. Good news is I started a new job and I love it. I am going to be working with cancer patients and this has been very time consuming learning all about complementary and alternative medicines and nutrition recommendations for cancer patients and survivors. It is really exciting to be learning something new and developing a broader perspective.
I hope to be able to share some of the information I discover and be able to help my readers. If anyone has specific needs I will definitely take the time to investigate anything that I don’t know already. It will be a learning experience for us all.
I promise to continue to provide comments on elder and home care support. Thank you for your patience. I hope you will continue to check in from time to time.
Our family is busy working in the yard which is my number one hobby. But of course I always bite off more than I can chew and am very tired trying to get through this huge project. My plan is to transform my yard into a more sustainable area using less water (and less weeding). Not sure how this will work but it is challenging and fun.
So, get out there and plant those pots if you haven’t already. A rectangular planter (about 8 x 20) makes a great home for lettuce. A large pot can hold a grape tomato, some parsley, and cilantro. Chives grow anywhere and add a nice touch to baked potatoes and sauces. And then cucumbers can sit in a pot on the deck and dangle over the edge giving them lots of growing room. Go for the pickle cucumbers for less seeds and softer skins.
All these plants need is water, sun and a little plant food every 2-3 weeks. They are easy to manage weed and bugwise and you have everything you need for a quick summer salad. The little care they need forces you to get outside and communicate with nature for a few minutes.
You too can go organic. Happy Spring!
Barbara
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A Smile from Home - Danielle Bean
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Violated
Our parish church was vandalized yesterday. In the late afternoon, someone used votive candles to set fire to the altar linens, the wooden altar that holds the tabernacle, and the floor in the center aisle. Candles and a crucifix were strewn across the floor and pages were ripped from the missals.
All things considered, the damage was rather minimal. The church certainly wasn’t burned down and the Blessed Sacrament was untouched. When Dan called from work to tell me about it, I looked up the story online and read him the news report from a local paper. I thought that I understood and accepted this horrible story for what it was.
But I wasn’t prepared for the photo.
I wasn’t prepared to see my spiritual home desecrated. I wasn’t ready to take in the sight of a burned altar and broken candles in the place where my babies have been baptized, where my children have received their First Communions, and where we attend Mass together as a family. I wasn’t prepared to see something that is so holy and so real to me defiled by another human being.
I felt like that altar. Gutted. Violated. Wounded. Burned.
I keep thinking of Christ, who was there, present in the tabernacle, when the church was attacked. He alone knows the face of the person who brought hatred to this holy place, who brought rage to this place of grace and love.
Christ knows who did this. And yet He loves. He forgives.
Grant us, O Lord, the strength to do the same.
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Greetings from London with Sister Janet Fearns, FMDM
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Spiritual Blessings from Father Rory Pitstick
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Thursday
Jas 5: 1-6
Ps 48(49): 14-15ab. 15cd-
16. 17-18. 19-20
Mk 9: 41-50
Daily Readings
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May 22 Thu: Ordinary Weekday/ Rita of Cascia, r
From today's readings:
“Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten, your gold and silver have corroded, and that corrosion will be a testimony against you; it will devour your flesh like a fire.... Fear not when a man grows rich, when the wealth of his house becomes great, For when he dies, he shall take none of it; his wealth shall not follow him down.... Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.”
Richly Warned
While the Bible does not condemn riches per se, the love of money and the inordinate focus on amassing wealth are clearly asserted as incompatible with any full Christian faith commitment. Even commonsense wisdom recognizes the danger of greed, and so, for instance, there’s a French proverb that goes, “Money is a good servant, but a bad master.”
The Epistle of St. James is eerily emphatic in warning of the spiritual bankruptcy of those whose primary interest is earthly wealth. In particular, those rich will be condemned who acquired their fortunes unethically (e.g., depriving workers of decent wages), or misused wealth in wanton luxury, or abused riches to buy the power to pervert justice.
Do these dire warnings apply to you and me? Our tendency is to pamper ourselves with comforting thoughts that, since many people are much wealthier and apparently more greedy than we ourselves are, surely our own attitude towards mammon is balanced and appropriate for our state in life, right? But then, it’s far too easy to buy the silence of our conscience on this matter, as if a minuscule percentage of almsgiving somehow justified the humongous investment of our time and talents in lucrative pursuits. So Scripture richly warns us: in the eternal accounting, whatever money isn’t shared and used for good, amounts to nothing but fool’s gold!
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