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Facetimed twice from KC with Nancy and family and later with Nancy's family and Hallel in KC, after sharing mass with The Community of the Lamb! Pat is feeling happy and special today with wonderful caramel rolls made by new daughter-in-law, Bobbi! She knows how to get to his heart!
Just like inside my house, where she is everywhere... John counted about 20+ Marys and equally many Jesus around my home a few years back. "Anyone walking in here would know that we are crazy Catholic!" John exclaimed!
So much of that journey is as we follow after Jesus through the intercession of Mary... "for we walk by faith, not by sight." 2 Cor 5 So true!!! We place our Trust in Jesus and pray without ceasing through his Mother through the rosary... our heart is carried to that inner temple where we plant the seeds of Faith and trust that good fruit will result!
Pat was just praying and hoping for rain today, and looking outside I see that a light rain just started. After 40 years of marriage even this old city girl can comprehend how we cannot control the weather... the seed is planted when we can and the weeds are controlled and the insects too, but the weather is out of our control! Yes, there have been masses for rain in drought times over those years, and what we call "million dollar rains" just in the nick of time.
These words of Christ describe the farmer trusting and going forward year after year:
Jesus said to the crowds:
“This is how it is with the kingdom of God;
it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land
and would sleep and rise night and day
and through it all the seed would sprout and grow,
he knows not how.
Of its own accord the land yields fruit,
first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once,
for the harvest has come.”
Lots of prayer and hope and trust in getting the rains/"Rain makes grain" and not the hail and storms that can wipe them out, which has thankfully not happened very often over those 40 years!
Jesus, thank you for our family farm, and sharing the job of feeding the world! May we also plant the tiny seed of Faith in our lives and nurture it with pulling the weeds of selfishness and giving without counting the cost. Monitoring all that we fill our hearts and minds with so that we can be pure and good as soil cleared of weeds that choke and hurt our fruit! Jesus, we trust in you. Amen and Hallelujah
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Happy Fathers Day
“Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them.” – Psalm 127:3-5
Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with you.
Blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,...
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
the Lord is with you.
Blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,...
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
Father's Day 2009... began John's cancer journey! Visiting with John and Bobbi today and recalling how John's public suffering and finding Faith through brain cancer and healing brought many to the power of prayer for the first time in their lives!
http://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/johns-cancer-stories.html
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