The Johns on LOVE!

John loves his niece, Mary, and they share their love of the stage.. the last 2 summers they have been in the summer musical together, and that has made them close indeed!  John's smile is bigger and more genuine when he poses with his special Mary! 


After being gone for a couple days it was great to pray with my husband and son on this feast/memorial of St Martha today.  I would like to wish my sister, Marty/Martha, a happy feast day today!  What can we take away from the two Gospels about Martha today - one from John when her brother has died, and one from Luke where she is doing all the serving while her sister Mary sits at his feet?  We can see that in all we do we need to look to Jesus and incorporate prayer in our daily activities.


I was moved to tears by Nancy sharing with me how her prayer life has been transformed after many shared with her how they pray as they are sorting their children's clothes for each child, or mopping the floor for their family... "some days we have to mop the floor after many spills and it is the Holy Spirit telling us that we need to pray more for that intention!"   Wow! 
http://www.dosmallthingswithlove.com/2017/07/key-to-prayer-at-home-parent.html
Attaching prayer to an activity!

John with his 2 youngest Goddaughters!


John and I shared the office and it opened us up to intentions prayed together, and John got emotional about a dream he had in which he pondered LOVE.  "Love is all there is!  Love it what we need to receive and give."  As he was speaking the first reading for today was echoed by St John the Evangelist in I John 4:7-16... John and I were wiping tears at the beauty and Truth of it ringing in our hearts and souls!
 ⁷Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸ Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
¹³ By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. ¹⁵ Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. ¹⁶ So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.


The Johns are crazy in love with their Lord and know that he is asking them to give it away without counting the cost!  He loved us so we must in turn love one another!

Princess and pickles...


Jesus, I am so encouraged by knowing that I need to love and serve you in all that I do this day.  May the prayers always be in my heart as I go forth.  Jesus, I trust in you.  Bless-bless, Barb

Sharing our Faith with JOY is how we pass it on!

Jesus shows us his LOVE in Word and Sacrament!

From John's Gospel today when Jesus asks Martha:"I am the resurrection and the life;
whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,
and anyone who lives and believes in me will never die.
Do you believe this?"

We love her and go to Jesus through her loving intercession!