Family birthday in Kansas City!! Family time supreme in the hospital! LOVE is patient....

  I love this wonderful picture of Birthday girl, Hallel, with Nancy's 2 youngest at Lumen Christi Monastery in KC yesterday!  Nancy spoiled me with some pictures from their hour with her for lunch...  

Love this special psalm on the wall behind her and the photo bomb by Dominic.  I would think that it was a gift from one of her little sisters as they are infused with the Psalms as they do all 150 each week!  LOVE when they chant the Psalms at prayer throughout the day.

We are so thrilled to find the chapter on love from St Paul to the Corinthians verse 13!  

Love is patient, love is kind.
It is not jealous, love is not pompous,
it is not inflated, it is not rude,
it does not seek its own interests,
it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
it does not rejoice over wrongdoing
but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.

I Corinthians 13!!!  Amazing and hard to live up to!

Dad back from surgery, and so sweet to see mom waiting for him... "There is my sweetheart, Nancy!"

We are in the midst of uncertainty here.. we discovered that one of my brothers was down the hall with heart scares!  I have been going between their two rooms and then discovered another family member there, too!!!  This small Wisconsin hospital is causing a family reunion and I am filled with much to pray about and visiting from one room to the next!  It is just such a family time supreme and so unexpected!  Still no doctors giving us what we can anticipate, so we are just praying and waiting.  The beginning of I Cor 13 is ringing loud and clear - "Love is patient!"

My youngest brother, psychologist Bruce, is our angel today!  He took the day off today to be there for both my dad and brother, Phil!  He is running errands for both and looking into dad's needs we anticipate as much as we can in this "foggy" time for my parents!  Thank you so much Bruce!

Bruce with mom and dad... navigating through the fog all around us.

I am overjoyed that Hallel could celebrate her birthday with family!  Nancy brought cheesecake for all!!!  And she made enchiladas for her and those little sisters living there with her.

Dominic bringing in the cake with Little Sister Ode!

I am uncertain of what I should be doing with my dad and brother... it seems like it will be hard to leave tomorrow with so much up in the air.  Bruce just reminded me that there are many opportunities to get them help, that he is investigating so I should in many ways just let go and let God.  It seems that God is currently opening and closing doors as he shows us the new path we are to take.  I am trusting that we will discover his plan and it will be just right for all involved!  Lord, I give the control over to you and Trust!

Little 2 year old Josephine is so lucky to have her Aunt Hallel and the experience of sharing in the lives of her Community of The Lamb!  Weekly adoration with her mother in their humble beautiful Lumen Christi/Light of Christ Monastery!!!  Out of this world in deep prayer and the True Presence of Jesus on the altar! 

You are one lucky girl, Bobo!!!  I love to see the Lamb around Hallel's neck... the sign of a professed Sister!  "I promise unto death!'

Sharing with the sisters there ... our family has been expanded by so many wonderful men and women through our daughter's "yes" to Jesus' call!

How providential that Nancy lives just 20 minutes away from the only foundation for The Community of the Lamb in the U.S.!  LOVE to see their smiling faces as they share family time together!!! 

Jesus, how I love you and in the midst of wave after wave of family time in the most unexpected ways and places... I sense your in control and that the plan you have for us is filled with the Cross and the LIFE/LOVE/LIGHT we receive when we embrace it!  May we die to self so that you may live in us!  Jesus we trust in you!  Amen and Hallelujah

I started from my house yesterday with the realization that I had no rosary with me!  I pulled over and looked under the seat of the car to find this!  What JOY!  It is less than perfect but filled my 4 hour trip with so much prayer as Our Lady took me to her Son, Jesus, for family and family and family!  With our combined families now over 200+... a lot of prayer is required!  Bless-bless, Barbara Mary Luke

From I Cor 13... these great words!!!
"So faith, hope, love remain, these three;
but the greatest of these is love."

Nice to know that all the tomatoes are in jars for a few days at least...  Ruth and I did 30 quarts of stewed the day before I left.  Now rain is making the farmers wait.

I was pretty shook up when I realized had left home without one!  I was overjoyed to find one of my dropped ones under my seat!

"For me prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy." - St. Therese of Lisieux

A memory from 5 years ago... Berna will soon be 6 on November 13!

“Let us live as the Blessed Virgin lived: loving God only, desiring God only, trying to please God only in all that we do.” - St John Vianney

 

"There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary.” – Sister Lúcia of Fátima