Roses in the snow... that is how quickly things change around here. We are hoping and praying that this will pass and the farmers can return to harvest. After working til 3a and many short nights... they are trying to catch up on rest this morning. Still so much to do!
As John and I were praying morning prayer and doing the readings this morning before he cautiously headed out for his half hour drive to work in a neighboring town... reading that first reading from Romans really struck home to me! Most especially the words about his "inner self" and how that is where he delights in all things holy/the law of God. My inner temple/prayer space/most gloriously lightfilled chapel filled with Jesus and Mary and The Saints! How I love them all and how wonderful is all that time I can spend there, and yes it does become my gage for the times that I sin and do wrong and fall into "doing the evil I do not want, instead of the good I want."
Snow on the pumpkins... just plain cold and wintry all of a sudden.
How can I do better in following Jesus? I was reminded yesterday that we become what we love, and I LOVE the Saints! They are my total thing and each day dedicated to a certain saint is such a powerful experience of Faith for me. I have The Queen of Heaven and earth always with me also in prayer and helping me, and most of all bringing me to her Son!

Some of my favorites? There are so many...each of my grandchildren is names for a Saint, so when I pray my rosary and after the Hail Holy Queen... I do the litany of our family first, middle and confirmation names and then all my losses... it is quite an amazing list of so many glorious and wonderful examples of Faith no matter what they face. They can certainly help us on this journey from heaven. YES!!!
I so pray to St Ages for all the youth that are put in the house of prostitution with all the moral evil just a mouse click away... she left there untouched! She can certainly help in this battle!
Quite the contrast... Therese with her picture of us at the ocean this summer with her and her farm cousins on her sweet card that came in the mail yesterday!
Yes, Therese is a huge saint for us! Maria named her oldest first daughter after the amazing St Therese, who wrote Story of a Soul, which Maria read on her way to study for a year in Rome , and then discerned cloistered life for herself with the Poor Clares for 5 months!
http://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/now-stories-of-johns-4-sistersruth.html
So sweet... she knows that her Godmother, Aunt little Sister Hallel is now in KC, and she would love to be able to see her and her cousins. It was very special to have them here for 5 months this last winter on the farm. From time to time when dad is away with the we have them living with us. Talk about close and personal!
It looks like I have a new sweet pen pal!
Short sleeves.... today Joy would have to be in a snowsuit!
It sounds like bales getting picked up is on the schedule. I had better wrap this up quickly! I will have my beads to keep me company and a prayer in my heart and my glorious inner temple!
Therese loves babies/LIFE and sewed this blanket along with the sweet family cross stitch!
Jesus, we long to be with you forever in heaven. May we spend time in your presence this day no matter where we are. Jesus, we trust in you. Bless-bless, Barbara Mary Luke
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“The devotion to the Eucharist is the most noble because it has God as its object; it is the most profitable for salvation, because It gives us the Author of gr...ace; it is the sweetest, because the Lord is sweetness Itself.” — Pope St. Pius X
Illustration: “The Morning Mass” by Henri Pierre Léon Pharamond Blanchard (1828).

St Paul!!!!

Yes!!! My life is flooded with Peace, Joy, Hope, LOVE!!!


St Paul!!!!

Yes!!! My life is flooded with Peace, Joy, Hope, LOVE!!!







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