Mixed up world!!! Saving animals lives while killing human babies???? How can it be???

Having fun with baby Joy in the redone wagon that David did for the Fair!  David gave Joy and I a ride around the yard and the first stop was to get an apple for the trip off the eating apple tree.  Life is good on the farm!

With the anger and ferocious attitude of those fighting to save the killing of human life/babies in the womb/abortion... in the face of the great extent that animals are protected and saved no matter the cost.  How did human life become so disrespected or not protected or not valued or not cherished no matter the cost???  Satan is alive and well and the culture of death and darkness has been allowed to enter our world and our country!  It brings my heart to such a place of sadness and I cry out to the Lord in agony at the thought of such a horror being protected and promoted as a good!

Katie the dog liked to join in the ride around the house and the shop.  Joy climbs right into her little pink chair and smiles and sings while big brother gently drives us around in the cool evening.  Joy in her kitty jammies and eating her apple next to grandma!

In the Gospel in Luke 5 today... Jesus sends Peter out to fish after coming up with nothing, and he just about sinks 2 boats!  We have to believe that all the prayers for the protection of LIFE will be answered and we already know of may babies saved by those that pray and counsel outside of abortion clinics... so many lives lost, but the powerful stories of those saved and here to tell the story of how valuable every life is could break the nets with the amount of Truth they share with the world!  Many of those, who were misled by the evil of a legal killing of LIFE.. have come to fall before the Lord and admit to their sinfulness and maybe expect Jesus to abandon them and "depart from them" but Jesus will never leave us and will show us how LIFE must be protected from conception to natural death!  LIFE is a gift no matter how small!

Our driver, David, showing us the Indian corn he planted this spring!

It grew twice as tall as he is!!!

So many prayers to end the killing of millions of human babies must be answered and heard!!!  R. To the Lord belongs the earth and all that fills it.
Who can ascend the mountain of the LORD?
or who may stand in his holy place?
He whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean,
who desires not what is vain.
R. To the Lord belongs the earth and all that fills it.
He shall receive a blessing from the LORD,
a reward from God his savior.
Such is the race that seeks for him,
that seeks the face of the God of Jacob.
R. To the Lord belongs the earth and all that fills it.

Psalm 24 from mass today!

The canning jars come out and Joy thought it made a good nest for her to play in while we canned Spaghetti sauce today... Only 17 quarts today... a slow year for canning except for the apples!

Who can ascend the mountain of the Lord? the Psalm asks and then answers.".He whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean,
who desires not what is vain."

How vain is it to say that it is not a good time for you to give life to that little one in your womb, that you want to pursue your power and money and profession more than say "yes" to life?  That you want to get the house and the car and keep your nice figure and wait til your married or find Mr Right even though you now have a baby growing in your womb?  That it vain and that is putting yourself first and not what the Lord wants for you! 

We didn't fill all these jars today and were done by noon.  Now mowing, picking up bales and an open house in the remodeled school tonight, then we are packing up and driving across the entire state of Wisconsin for a family wedding this weekend on Washington Island, WI in Lake Michigan!  I am so excited to see Lake Michigan and put my toes in it! 

Joy and a shoe watching her grandpa out working... she loves to watch him and put her head on his big broad shoulder!

Now that she is walking she is so cute and fun... grandma loves to dress her up, and...

Put in a cute pony tail today... Cute alert!!!

Jesus, may your Truth cover the earth and The Culture of LIFE over take the darkness of sin and death/Darkness that has blinded so many to the value of each and every human life!  Hear our fervent prayer, Lord.  Our Lady, mother of heaven and earth, we know that you are weeping with us at the horrible taking of human life with no care for the harm and agony they suffer in their short existance.  May we make a difference... may your LIGHT shine in the darkness as we know you will never "depart from us"... you love and forgiven us unconditionally.  Bless-bless, Barb

David driving us into the sunset over the bales last evening.  It was special time to share with him and Joy... thank you, sweet David!

New life is worth sacrificing our selfish desires for and to die to self and allow Christ's love to live in us!

“Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.” – Mother Teresa of Calcutta

SAINT MOTHER TERESA’S HUMILITY LIST

1. Speak as little as possible about yourself.

2. Keep busy with your own affairs and not those of others.

3. Avoid curiosity.

4. Do not interfere in the affairs of others.

5. Accept small irritations with good humor.

6. Do not dwell on the faults of others.

7. Accept censures even if unmerited.

8. Give in to the will of others.

9. Accept insults and injuries.

10. Accept contempt, being forgotten and disregarded.

11. Be courteous and delicate even when provoked by someone.

12. Do not seek to be admired and loved.

13. Do not protect yourself behind your own dignity.

14. Give in, in discussions, even when you are right.

15. Choose always the more difficult task.

Danielle Rose - The Litany of Humility