No, this is not the view here except that the snow coming down looks similar... this was what we faced when we went to get John's MRI last year in late October in Rochester. The weather was the usual Minnesota/challanging... One thing you have to admit about our weather is that it is rarely boring! I am not able to add the pictures from here in Uniontown, PA, so I am going to some that I can from a year ago and using them to show you the snow that we are watching come down... We hope and pray that the milder temps here will prevent it from sticking and making those up and down highways we drove on to get here treacherous! This early snow in Rochester was gone quickly too!
A year ago we were in the midst of a huge situation with John's tumor growing back right through a new chemo he had started! Then we faced radiation with a deep sadness and with John a real fear that it could damage his brain for the future. We had to TRUST! Then the powerful prayers at morning mass the weekend before Thanksgiving...annointing #3 and then prayer for healing using the relic of St Solanus Casey that my parents had brought here. Then Hallel and Judith arrived for Thanksgiving week and drove John to radiation in Rochester.... they would drive him there for his 10 minutes clamped into his mask on the table and "seeing" blue lights... then they would head back to St Paul and spend the time in between with Maria, Joe, and Nancy and the little Therese.
I decided to stay home with some time with Pat... it was great! But when Ruth and the kids went up for a couple days and all 5 kids were together, and grandkids.... I suffered knowing that I was missing the primo of family time... when they were all together. That just does not happen to speak of these days. It was wonderful for them and a true sacrifice for me not to be there recording every minute! Today in the Gospel n this feast day of the Blessed Virgin and the vigil of the first Sunday of Advent..."Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise like a trap."
Nancy and Bill helping with pie filling a year ago...On Dec 1st we had our week of Prayer! So powerful! It has gotten very busy in this small hotel room and distracting...I will just say that we are looking forward to celebrating Nancy and Bill's union.... it is definitely fruitful and faithful! All are overjoyed with the news of a new one on the way!
Hail Holy Queen
Mother of mercy:
our life, our sweetness,
and our hope, hail.
To thee do we cry,
exiles; sons of Eve.
To thee do we sigh,
moaning and weeping
in this valley of tears.
Ah then, our Advocate,
those merciful eyes of thine turn towards us.
And Jesus, the blessed fruit of thy womb,
after this exile show unto us.
O clement: O holy: O sweet Virgin Mary. We ask you to intercede for us to your Son, who honors you as the best mom that ever was... the Queen of heaven and earth! He honors you with so much gratitude and joy! How special to have John here and telling us that he loves to be with mom and dad! Tears spring to my eyes and I am forever grateful for the gift of being a "mom"... of both children here with me and also in heaven! Life is a gift, and the comings and goings of our families an ocean of love that is always changing and moving. Jesus, we trust in you! Amen and Halleluia!
Bless-bless, Barb"So be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma." Ephesians 5: 1-2
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