Augustine with the new haircut woke up coming down the steps in his mother's arms with a huge smile on his face, and from there it has been just a fun filled morning as he and the kitty chase back and forth through the house, he had a huge breakfast, he helped mom wash the baby sister between chasing the kitty under tables and into closets, and then there was the door with two window panes missing ( they will never be replaced as they are great for photos and kids and kitties to climb through after each other), and finally there was the spindles of the stairway as he chased the kitty upstairs for another adventure as the kitty could go under many beds up there! Grandpa joined Nancy and I at the table for breakfast and prayer, as grandpa spoke and laughed with his "buddy - Gussy" as well as the always adorable little girl, Bernadette! Nancy says that she has become more engaging in the week she has been here, and we are thrilled with her intensely personal and loving eye contact complete with a dimple smile! We are basking in the child-Light this morning and reveling in the knowledge that we will have many more times ahead to share with Nancy and her little family on the farm! When warm spring weather rolls around it will be a wonderful gift for all of us to enjoy the outside complete with the new baby calves that are due to start coming in about a month - all 125 of them! What fun that will be for a photo happy grandma, but this morning was so fun for me too! As little Bernadette was smiling and looking, with all her heart, at grandpa this morning - he was speaking with passion about those babies that are deprived of that loving responce as we look back at her and smile - "Think of those little babies in those orphanages where they are alone in their cribs all day with a propped bottle - how they must yearn for that loving reponse!"
Gus getting ready to help wash his sister's tummy with soapy hands! There were some real pearls today in the morning prayer and readings about my most favorite topic - LIGHT!
"In you is the source of LIFE
and in your Light we see Light."
Psalm 36:10
Having the little ones here with us for the last week and how they are so loving and joyful at the simple things around them... just reveals to us the beauty of LIFE, and the call we have to raise LIGHTS for the world, when we answer the call of Jesus and his Bride, The Church to be open to LIFE! It is all in His hands... we have found that out from experience... we are open to large families, yet there are circumstances that arise that challange our self-made plans, and maybe some are called to Heaven to pray for us rather than be here with us on earth - I have 6 there helping their mom through prayers, and Maria has 2 there! Ruth too has been limited in her family due to her rupturing on a V-back on her second. Yet she has now had 2 miracle children since being told no more children by the Dr here in town... so with patience and natural means to wait for the healing there is hope and Trust in Him is huge with constant prayers! Just the way LIFE should be cherished and ushered into this world with PRAYER without ceasing!
Distracted by the kitty... a busy house is a fun house for grandparents that live in a huge empty farmhouse between family visits! The promise from Hebrews gives much HOPE and JOY this morning... "We are not those who draw back and perish, but among those who have FAITH and will possess LIFE." Heb 10:39 Then the Gospel from Mark 4 is about the mustard seed of Faith that turns into a great tree in which birds can sit in the branches! We pray that we may turn to HIM in Faith, Hope and Trust in all that we do, and all that has to do with our domestic Church/family that Christ and his Bride,the Church may be in our Heart always and without any reservations. May the Truth fill us with the Knowledge and LOVE of HIM!
The kitty just took the shortcut through the windowless window! Jesus, we thank and praise you for the lessons of LIFE and LOVE we learn through the little ones in our midst! May we take very seriously raising them to be LIGHTS to the world! Sharing with them always and joyfully the Truth we find in your amazing Catholic Church! "Where is the Light and where do we find hope as we face the uncertainty of a New Year? The same place where the Magi and the Apostles found it: Bethlehem and the empty tomb. Not the places, but the events that occurred there: 'The encounter of God and the world, the victorious entry of God into a world that refuses Him and yet in the end cannot prevent Him from taking it.' God made all things including freedom through which darkness entered the world. But God always was and always will be infinitely more powerful than evil, and light can penetrate the darkness." Fr Michael Miller from the Catholic Servant Yes, Lord! We are filled with great Hope in YOU and your Bride the Church to give us all we need to "see" the Truth with eyes of Faith and to share that with great JOY and excitement with all those that surround us! When we share our Faith with great JOY and happiness in all that we are given - it will be embraced by our children - the World needs LIGHTS! Jesus, we trust in you. Amen and Halleluia
Bless-bless, Barb
The Harvest of FAITH by Fr John Tauler OP (1361)
"When the soul's powers turn into the interior, down to the very roots of life, using natural and supernatural means of perfection, then the soul confesses or truly acknowledges God, and does so in a manner full of feeling and spiritual enjoyment. This is an act of faith so true and living that it wins all that is born of faith. Its power is so great that proclaiming God in all sincerity absorbs the soul's entire life: interiorly, in the understanding and the will; outwardly, in every human faculty; in deeds and words, in doing and refusing to do, and in all sufferings. A man now feels and knows nothing in act or in contemplation except the confessing of God in perfect Truth."
A Light has come into the world named Augustine! The Truth fills us with LIFE, LOVE and LIGHT!
This arrived from Hallel and her Community of the Lamb - a belated Christmas Card filled with sharing from around the world...
http://www.communityofthelambusa.org/monastery_progress.html Here is the website to see their progress!!
"Dear friends, behold we announce a great JOY! Yes, what has happened to us with our little monastery Lumen Christi, is like the mystery of a birth! It has been such a long time that we have dreamt of it! We have worked so hard for it! And now that the construction is well underweigh, we understand that the little monastery has been founded in the heart of our heavenly Father since all ages. Like children in awe, we see it at the same time rising from the earth and coming down from Heaven, like a new little Jerusalem. We receive it as a grace."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4uauw38GBM Casting Crowns - Sound of your Voice
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