After some time of using Public TV... I could see the kids were getting restless. So, it wasn't the kind of day you can go outside... so we started running the length of the house!
Today the Gospel is the genealogy showing us that God has a divine plan and all is just not just haphazard circumstances! This time in our family when all of us are in the state of moving... well, we are certainly facing it together! And always asking and trusting in His Plan for us!
John called and we prayed together on the phone this morning. I was about to say that we needed to get together and pray and then I remembered The Grocery store girl, and we prayed right then and there on the phone! http://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/johns-cancer-stories.html
Here it is from my page about John's cancer journey! I have seen John pray for others just like this! He has a prayer ministry now returning to others what they have given to him!
"As the family was all around John - I took a day away to make FOOD! I just needed a down day to make some homecooked food for the family, and get some mental health time. I ended up at a big Cub Food store that was nearby. As I slowly walked the aisles picking out what I needed... I got in line of a black checkout woman about my age. She asked me the ususal - "How are you doing?" I just couldn't say the usual "fine." I said - "Not that good." "You at least have money for food." she says, "unlike that guy ahead of you." she points to a black man bagging his own groceries that has just paid with food stamps. "That's true," I say, "but my 20 year old son has brain cancer! Could you please pray for him?" She looks shocked at me and slightly nods her head. At that exact moment a young girl in the next lane says - "Are you from Marshall? I think I went to school with some of your girls. Did you say that your son has brain cancer? Can I pray for you right here and now?" I was shocked and nodded my head in astonishment by it all. She bowed her head, and said a simple short prayer asking for John to be healed and protected as well as his family. I looked up to see the checkout lady and the man bagging his groceries also bowing their heads in prayer - united in prayer! That changed me! I might have lost a bit of my fire since. But for a long time after this happened I would pray in the street, on the phone, in an email - I would no longer say that I was going to pray for someone - I would do it right then and there! I call this the Grocery Store girl, and she started me into a virtual prayer warrior! I was reminded of this the other night - John and I were talking on the phone, and we were talking about my working the overnight shift at the nursing home that night. This is a hard task for me, and John knows it. He said that he would pray for me, and immediatly launched into a wonderful sweet prayer asking Jesus to go with me and to use me! I thought of my grocery store girl, and smiled all the way to work and many times during the night remember the blessings that we have received. Just yesterday I called a special friend/daughter that is struggling with her faith, and we prayed on the phone! Such a powerful connection! Prayer is something REAL and powerful!!! We certainly have discovered that on this journey!"
Jesus, thank you for showing me to stop and relax and enjoy! It was also a gift to pray with John right then, and turn to you with all that we have in our lives. Jesus, we trust in you. Amen and Hallelujah
Our Lady was the yes to the supreme Plan for the world of sin and darkness!
How we need our Mother!
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