After 3 brothers this was such a gift for "T" and she has loved her and cared for her and enjoyed her time with a baby sister immensely over the last year! Vangie is now walking and developing her own personality. Her grandpa Pat fell head over heels in love with her as she lived with us for 5 months while her dad was training as a out East... lots of snuggle time with her baby loving grandpa Pat!
Speaking of hope the reading from Romans 8 is just so full! Every single sentence is so filled with Holy Spirit filled wisdom that you just groan over. I recall the words of St Paul coming to life 5 years ago when we were all gathered around little lamb, Patrick, in prayer. "Rejoice in hope, endure in affliction, persevere in prayer." Exactly what we were clinging to and what we were doing with every breath that we took and every beat of our hearts! Jesus, Mary and St Patrick save our sweet baby Patrick!
http://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/the-story-of-little-lamb-grandson.html
These words from the Psalm grabbed my heart and attention as my girls are usually somewhere along in their nursing of their little ones. I think that both Ruth with her Joy and Maria with her Evangeline are nursing their daughters at this point. But Nancy weaned Josephine, or the other way around and now she is expecting her 5th child in April. These words hold a lot of deep meaning as a mother who nursed and now the daughters with their children... "I have stilled and quieted
my soul like a weaned child.
Like a weaned child on its mother's lap,
so is my soul within me."
Wow! That would be peaceful and content and no longer longing for the breast! Quite the vision to ponder of my soul within!
Saint Gregory says that we may understand this supper to which we are all invited, as a most interior self-knowledge, a most clear knowledge of that inmost depth of our soul which is God's Kingdom... it is eternal happiness which is the true supper of our souls... If anyone will taste of this sweetness in his deepest life, he must turn his heart away from all that is not God. Father John Tauler (1361)
Yes!!! How do we join the feast within, and taste the sweetness? By partaking of the Word of God each day... starting the night before to take it in and the Holy Spirit will show us the meat and potatoes there for each of us. By joining with Our Lady and the Saints always there to bring us to HIM! By our prayer for all those we have been given here and our dead. Especially the month of November is devoted to our dead! We are asked to lift them up in prayer for their journey!
Jesus, once again I am amazed at all I am given with this new day of my journey down the narrow path carrying/dragging my most Cherished Cross! I am so small and weak and lowly and sinful and I long to fall on my knees in my inner temple and eat of the scraps, but you set before me a feast!!! I am so filled with your LOVE/LIGHT/ LIFE! May I share it with all those I come in contact with most especially those the closest to me in my domestic Church/family. Jesus, I trust in you. Amen and Hallelujah
Mine too! And you are my hero of Family and LIFE! I know that you are battling the taking of LIFE by abortion that has permeated our sinful world from heaven!
He does spoil us with JOY too!
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