Maria has been giving me updates, and not hearing from her is usually a good sign - for Maria "no news is good news" should be her motto. One thing she shared that I can so picture is that Therese is not tiring of being with her new brother all the time! "I finally told her to get her baby doll,Anna, and care for her the same way that I am caring for Patrick. She is right beside me changing and feeding Anna. That way she is not always asking to hold and care for Patrick."
Therese with her special sweet baby,Anna! She has always had a special thing for Anna, and even named a heifer, while she lived a winter with us when Joe was in bootcamp, Anna. When you see how much love she gives to her dolly and is always kissing and hugging and carrying her. She puts her in the stroller and takes her to the park. So it is probably keeping Patrick from being held and loved too much by his sister, to have her giving all that care and love to her dolly right beside her mom, while she cares for Patrick. Therese even has a syringe and gives Anna her medicine at the same time the Maria gives Patrick his meds morning and night for siezures. Time will tell if he will continue to need these or not. I imagine that there will be EEGs done along the road and up and down of meds. For now he is doing very well, and that is what counts!
I just read a final entry on a caringbridge site... http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/michaeljensen1
I would suggest that you grab a kleenex and read this outpouring of a mother, who lost her son 2 years ago to brain cancer. Yet, she knows that he is HOME with Jesus, and that is what we are all, hopefully, headed for. In my years of working for Hospice, and many asked me how I could work with death and those that are dying. It is part of LIFE! And it is the path to eternal LIFE away from all the distractions and detours of life here on earth. I truly do believe that as much as she misses the company of her only son...that she has found comfort in knowing that he is free from pain and the world! The world is weighing heavy on me right now with the elections looming tomorrow! How I hope and pray that this can be the beginning of coming back to some Truth and Light in our country. The morals are so confused, and the darkness is creeping in from all sides. Lord, please give us some good moral leaders, that allow us to proclaim the Truth for all to hear. It is so sad that the good is sneered at, and those that are on the narrow path are jeered at by the crowds that we pass carrying our Most Cherished Cross. Embrace your Cross to find LIFE, and LOVE, and LIGHT!
It is pretty special to see little 2 1/2 year old, David, with his brother too! Very loving and gentle, but not quite as obsessed with holding him and caring for him as his sister. Today in the Gospel Jesus tells us about our need to embrace humility and all those that we see around us that are humble ... "the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous." Luke 14 Lately I have felt very honored to be in the presence of those that are poor and dejected by all that is glorified in this world! I feel very close to Christ when I encounter a beggar in the streets of El Paso. I feel very close to Christ when I are in the presence of someone, who due to physical appearance is not cool or accepted by the world. That humility is cruelly brought upon them, yet they are close to Christ. As we would pull off the expressway a couple times a day to enter downtown El Paso to spend some time with our little Lamb, Patrick... there was a place between two streets with an island and there would always be a beggar or two there with a sign asking for food or money walking back and forth as the cars would sit at the light. How much more humble can it be than to be that dirty and poor person begging for help? I thought that was truly a picture of humility! With the feeling of anger towards those that are upholding the value of marriage - being called judgemental and misled... How can the Truth be called wrong? So hard! It is a form of humility poured down upon us, yet it just is so impossible to see those that are so confused, and they are robbed of Truth and right thinking by all the lies! Jesus, shows us how this can happen - he was the unblemished Lamb led to the slaughter - He was God and He was treated as the worst criminal! Talk about "extreme poverty of soul!"
Through His embracing the Cross we all have been shown the Path to LIFE! We must unite and vote "YES!" to the marriage ammendment - ONE man and ONE woman! And there is only one choice for any form of LIFE support in the elections... we must vote Republican - Romney/Ryan for President, and try to turn the tide from the culture of darkness and death that is rising higher and higher to engulf our country! Lord, help us! Lord, may your righteousness and Truth prevail!
Lord, we are yours and we need you to help us face the darkness that surrounds us with sneers and lies! How you must have felt that bearing down upon with the weight of the Cross on your shoulders as well as all the insults, scourges, spitting, rocks and hits and kicks... so humiliating for God to be treated in such a way! You were the unblemished Lamb, and you showed us how to save our worlds - our domestic Church- by being the Lamb... accepting all that hurts us and return love! "Wounded,I will not cease to LOVE!" The motto of the Community of the Lamb is so hard to live, yet this is the sign of True LOVE! How often am I hurt and not retaliate? Lord, help me to embrace your Cross and extreme poverty of my soul! "Only in the extreme poverty of a soul which loses itself for Love does the Lord God enter triumphant with the fullness of joy." Chiara Lubich (2008) We take our right to vote most seriously, and place it all in your hands, and trust! We strive to make a difference for Truth in this world, and will never tire of sharing it with all we come in contact with! Jesus, we trust in you. Amen and Halleluia
Bless-bless, Barb
"His soul, which is the soul of the God-Man, filled with the greatest suffering of a God abandoned by God, never doubted for a moment about offering it to his Father: "Into your hands , Lord, I commend my spirit."
Let it always be the same for us.
And do you know what Jesus will say in answer to your offer?
"All that is mine is yours."
Everything he'll give you, the entire fullness of His JOY."
Chiara Lubich (2008) was the founder and president of the Focolare movement.
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