Joy out with grandma to check on the bins for her first bin picture... the wind made the sweatshirt and stocking hat important. She is sitting up now, and loved plate after plate of mashed up table food with applesauce!
Such a good little girl for this old grandma, and I have fallen head over heels in love with her! She seems to be getting better with seeing me there, and not miss her "pretty pretty mommy" as much. It seemed that when I would go and get her up from her naps, that she would take a look at me and burst into tears that I wasn't her "Pretty mommy." I guess she is starting to realize that I can be OK, too.
I borrowed Ruth's camera yesterday again and found these of the 6 together on top of the windy bales ... It was warmer on this day.
The readings for today starting with Paul to the Romans, then to Luke 1 for the Psalm, and then Luke 12 where Jesus speaks to a subject close to home/laying up treasures in heaven and being "rich in the matters of God," using a farmer as the parable... The words of the Psalm are from the Canticle of Zachariah, which we have memorized and share in morning prayer each day...
"This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham:
to set us free from the hands of our enemies,free to worship him without fear,
holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life.
R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people."
Sometimes the free to worship him seems hindered by the confusing attitudes of all those around us. I am in the midst of a good book helping us to keep on the narrow path and hopefully help those lost in relativism to come to see the LIGHT! It is called; Who am I to judge? by Edward Sri... thanks, Angela!
Joy Jean Jellybean as she is called by her loving siblings! How lucky are they to have a baby sister, which is quite a rarity for many kids limited to just a sibling or so.
In the book he mentions the example of the movie - It's a Wonderful Life - and how George Bailey could finally see that in his self- sacrifice and standing up for what is right that he changed the world for the better. The modern thinking that we live for ourselves rather than embracing marriage and family and therefore giving up our selfishness to love and serve them... we see that the more we are open to life the more we are called to die to self! That is what Christ asks of us... how did it become so belittled and put down and looked down upon? Our Most Cherished Cross is where we find LOVE/LIFE/LIGHT!
The 6 with Joy and Mary making the picture...a picture of LIFE!
There is so much confusion out there concerning how we are to raise our children and instill in them our faith with JOY! https://aleteia.org/2017/10/03/young-nuns-have-some-advice-for-their-millennial-peers/ I am returning to this article as it said some hard and powerful things about how kids are raised today
"Millennials have grown up with an especial sense of disconnect from life as it was previously lived and known. They are the generation that seems to have been born “hard wired” for the internet and the smartphone, and whose attention spans have been shortened in great part due to new media. They are often called “narcissistic” without consideration that they are the generation parented by people who were counseled by the “experts” to validate and overpraise them — with “participation trophies” and endless repetitions that "everyone is special."
"Millennials are the generation left unmoored spiritually by a secularist culture that each year more freely disdains notions of prayer or faithfulness, or certainty about the importance of the family, or surety about the purpose and vocational aspects of their own sexes."
How I long to stop this in it's tracks, and I pray with each new day that each of my grandchildren with consider the beauty of what the Lord is calling them each to... His personal plan for them and part of that consideration will be for religious life!
A Dominican Sister interviewed:
And, as one sister concluded — in advice that is meant for millennials but is worthwhile for all of us, “Go before the Lord in silence, with empty hands and a thirsty heart. Take some time each week—each day if possible—to be still in His presence, especially His presence in the Eucharist. Bring Him your pain and your poverty, your doubts and fears, your desires and your joy. Listen to Him. Then follow where He leads, confident that true happiness is found, now and for eternity, in friendship with Jesus Christ.”
YES!!!!!!
This guy!!! I watched him climb up and down 3 bins in about 10 minutes while I was helping him yesterday! All the while "Hail Marys" were being said for his safety and that all would go smoothly up on top of the world in the noise and fatigue of harvest time. Lord, keep the farmers safe and sane!
Red snow raining down/corn chaff fills the air!
Yes, we must not get off the path and need to keep our hearts, minds and souls focused on the goal of heaven forever with Jesus, Mary and the Saints! How? By "worshiping him without fear" and by looking to Jesus in The Word each day and following the lead of the Holy Spirit guiding us and filling us with Truth, by the Sacraments alive and well each day in our lives including Eucharist/Jesus in His Body and Blood there on the altar every day, Reconciliation/laying our burdens and sins at his feet and hearing his words of forgiveness, the Sacrament of Marriage gives us the grace to die to self so that Jesus may live in us and we are HIS! The Saints are always there to assist us and they lived out the Journey to Christ and can help us do likewise! Mary, my queen mother, fills me with prayer throughout each new day! She brings me to her Son!
I kind of missed out on sharing a lot about my wonderful St JPII yesterday, so be prepared today!
Pondering her wonderful life which lies ahead!
Jesus, I am yours, and I am grateful for The Plan for Barbara Luke that you have revealed to me and continue to spark that fire within my soul! I am eternally grateful that you brought me into The Church and how each day holds so very much to help and guide me down the narrow path carrying/dragging my Most Cherished Cross which I embrace to find LIFE/LOVE/LIGHT! Jesus, I trust in you. Amen and Hallelujah
A mommy picture of Joy in the sandbox a few days ago!
Not afraid of heights is a good thing for him. Also prayer surrounds him, I know!
Corn coming out across the road from the farm/bins.
This man loves the little ones and they love him back!
Love her!
https://www.catholiccompany.com/getfed/john-paul-iis-five-greatest-loves/ Good Read! Love him too!
Yes!!!
I am filled with so much love right back at you!!!
St John Paul II is with me on my great adventure of LIFE/LOVE/LIGHT!
So true!!
Jesus, may my light shine even a smoldering wick can make a difference right?
"Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. " - St Therese
I clean our floor constantly. And then I feed my family...and it looks like the floors have never been cleaned, not ever.
And as I grab the broom again it's hard not to let the frustration in. It's hard not to see all this work as pointless. ...
It's hard to see this small repetitive activity as my life's work.
Day after day, year after year, it still remains hard.
And all I have some days are these words from St Therese. Nothing is small in God's eyes and everything is an opportunity to love.
Even this.
I clean our floor constantly. And then I feed my family...and it looks like the floors have never been cleaned, not ever.
And as I grab the broom again it's hard not to let the frustration in. It's hard not to see all this work as pointless. ...
It's hard to see this small repetitive activity as my life's work.
Day after day, year after year, it still remains hard.
And all I have some days are these words from St Therese. Nothing is small in God's eyes and everything is an opportunity to love.
Even this.
So true Nancy!!
Danielle Rose - The Saint that is just me
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Danielle Rose - Small things with great love
Tauren Wells - Hills and Valleys
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