This is the sight that greeted me every day for the last week at Nancy's with the beginning of each new day! Little 1 1/2 year old Augustine would come out of his crib with a happy smile and a firm hold on his monkey, Charlie, and his blanket in his mouth - he's teething! I am missing my sweet little boy today and will call Nancy for an update on her night with her new little girl. All of us mothers remember the nights at first and how they can be good one night and sleepless and hard the next. Mostly those first nights are sleepless and challanging night after night. Bernadette is being very good for Nancy, and we are rejoicing for her. And little Patrick is definitely allowing Maria to get her sleep... the other night she reported she had to wake him up after 10 hours! So two very good babies are allowing their mothers to get their rest and wake up more positive and cheerful! That is a wonderful gift! And as grandma now away from them and home on the farm - I am thinking and praying for them as they come together as a family with a new member. My prayer is that they may embrace and grow in their love one for the other and find a place of peace and joy.
Prayer reaches across the distance that separates us from those that we hold in our hearts... our children, children-in-law and grandchildren certainly are there always and without fail! With my 5... I have found the 5 decades of the rosary to be the way that I pray for them each day, and their families are prayed for then too. I have added decades to pray for others that I am to pray for each day... for my husband, I added the first joyful - the Annunciation. This seemed to be right for him as his patron saint is St Joseph and he is huge in the first joyful, and I love the way that he watched out for Jesus and listened to God. These two qualities I see in Patrick so much and I find great joy in praying to St Joseph for him each day! It helps us be more loving and caring towards each other too! And any way a couple can improve their feelings towards each other is to be cherished and definitely is worth the minutes in prayer!
Here is Gus and Charlie sitting up to the table on a booster seat for breakfast in the morning. He was such a wonderful little boy for his grandma! Maybe he will know me in a few days when we gather in Kansas City? I sure will be glad to see him!
Today the Gospel is the blind man, who is crying out for Jesus to heal him, as he walks by... Jesus reminded us the other day to pray without ceasing and pester HIM with our prayers and needs, and He will come to our aide! Bartemaeus, the blind man beside the road, also is showing us that we are to be vocal in our prayers, and asking HIM to enter into our lives and minister to our blindness and needs. He will show us the Way, the Truth and the LIFE... in his sacraments and His Word! "Christian sentiment thinks of the Cross as the tree of life that awaits us in paradise restored. From it flows the grace of the Spirit that teaches us through God's Word and all the Sacraments. Those who sink their roots into that stream of grace bear, like the tree, life-giving fruit in prayer and in deeds of kindness, justice, and mercy for all." See www.magnificat.com So right on! We are so blessed by the graces that flow over us each and every day through our amazing Catholic Church! Each day is a day of unending LIFE, LOVE and LIGHT! There is no end to all that comes to us, if we only ask in prayer and are open to!
Jesus, the heart of your Church lies within each domestic Church/family. If we center our lives together on YOU and your Bride, The Church, we are given a full measure packed down and overflowing! The world sees YOU alive and well in the world through the fruits of that domestic Church/family! We know that the little ones are called into this messed up world to be LIGHTS to the world, and that the parents are given the vocation to raise them in the Truth! Bless all parents, who love YOU and Your Church, and may that flow from them into the hearts, minds and souls of their children and all those that they meet. Prayer should be constant and is our communication of LOVE with YOU, Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! May we never become listless, but especially in our weakness may we always turn to YOU and find your arms open to lift us up and carry us forth down the narrow path as we carry our Most Cherished Cross and follow after YOU. May we always "see" the Truth and with all that is in us follow after it! "Lord, please let me see." Jesus told him, "Have sight; your faith has saved you." He immediately received his sight and followed him, giving glory to God. When they saw this , all the people gave praise to God."
Luke 18: 35-43 Jesus, we trust in you. Amen and Halleluia
Bless-bless, Barb
Arms full of LIFE and LOVE - LIGHTS To the world!
"Happy the person without eyes of his own if God lends him his, without feet if God is his litter, for as it says in the book of Job: 'I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.' God himself is eyes to those who become blind to see him, and he directs them so as not to go astray, or rather it is more accurate to say that God takes them where they would not know how to go even if they could see."Fr Francisco de Osuna (1540)
Love that dimple!!!
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