The two one year olds that are now the two 5 year olds - 4 years later! Those fingers sure must be good!
Pat will be giving a talk this weekend on discipleship and this story came up! Not only is prayer important to have throughout our days, but as my "grocery store girl" showed all those gathered around that register in Cub that day - it is to be shared and proclaimed with total strangers when there is a need! Prayer becomes not just the way we communicate personally with Jesus, and gain the strength and ability we need to go forth and serve those in our domestic Church/family without counting the cost, but it is also a real way to come together in HIM and assist those on the journey that are overwhelmed by their Crosses! It allows us to assist them in taking up their Most Cherished Cross and following after Jesus down the narrow path!
Hallel home!!!
Looks of concern and LOVE!
Today is the story of Samuel and God calling him - finally he is told to answer - "Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening." John realizes that his half hearted prayer for Faith was answered by his cancer journey! It made him come to his loss of self/humility and finding Christ and His Bride, The Church... there to give him all he needed for the battle of his LIFE! The Gospel speaks of the power of prayer as Jesus heals all those brought to HIM, and then rises early to go off to pray in a deserted place... to find the strength and love communication with his Father/Prayer He needed to continue on with his ministry mission of "preaching and driving out demons."
Where did those bunny ears come from? Almost picture perfect - the 5
Jesus, today we are reminded of the need to share prayer in our lives. It is not just something to half-heartedly say to someone when they ask or are in need. Prayer is something to do on the spot! It takes courage and knowledge of our loving and merciful Jesus... always there to answer our every need and with unconditional LOVE and forgiveness no matter what! May we ever fall on our knees and humbly lay all our burdens at your feet, O Lord! May we die to self and embrace our Most Cherished Cross to find newness of LIFE/LOVE/LIGHT! Jesus, we trust in YOU. Amen and Hallelujah
Bless-bless, Barbara Luke
Jesus reaching down from the Cross to heal us - St Peregrine pray for all those that suffer from cancer and all diseases!
 St. Therese of Lisieux | A MORNING PRAYER WRITTEN BY ST. THERESE O my God! I offer Thee all my actions of this day for the intentions and for the glory of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I desire to sanctify every beat of my heart, my every thought, my simplest works, by uniting them to Its infinite merits; and I wish to make reparation for my sins by casting them into the furnace of Its Merciful Love. O my God! I ask of Thee for myself and for those whom I hold dear, the grace to fulfill perfectly Thy Holy Will, to accept for love of Thee the joys and sorrows of this passing life, so that we may one day be united together in heaven for all Eternity. Amen. " |
Four years ago we were in our little yellow house in Rochester starting our stem cell transplant month - the final battle - John is now healed! We return on Tuesday next week for his MRI and meeting with the doctors to celebrate and once again acknowledge that fact - the new John filled with the Faith he longed to find is now healed! "Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening." is what John is saying as he finds his path and carries his Most Cherished Cross down it!
That is picture perfect!!!!
Danielle Rose - the Saint that is just me
Chris Tomlin - I will rise
In 2009 John and I would listen to Christian music as we went back and forth to Rochester daily - this was one of the songs we heard often in 2009!
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