The Gospel is the book of the Lord's LIFE-our life too!/proclaim the Gospel to every creature."/Going to KC!

Yes, that is a man made fort in Washington in the back yard of Joseph!  The vision started with 11 year old Therese and with months of work.. here it is!!!  There is a cannon out the window and the two gunners are taking an icy break at the picnic table in the sun.

We are in the midst of cold rain and snow... the farmers are getting discouraged about getting the crop in, but the Lord seems to make it happen year after year.  This will be my 40th year on the farm and planting is different with each new year!

Pat's cousin, Al, washing the windows at church yesterday.  I was going in to pray for Seven Sisters...my great delight every Friday!

Perfect timing to capture him with the Easter flowers and Our Lord's Sacred heart statue.  He took advantage of the sun yesterday, now today is rain and snow mixed in.

I am soon to be on the road to see my two girls in KC!  I am needed by Nancy, and I haven't seen Hallel since Easter has arrived.  Our time with her is very limited during Lent, so I want to get some good visits with her and The Community!

Easter JOY and the tabernacle glowing without the curtain that hid him during Lent!  So powerful and glorious to fill my heart with Jesus!!!

There is so much in the Gospel today and in Acts telling us to "Go into the whole world
and proclaim the Gospel to every creature."  Mark 16
And as the Peter and John say to those who tell them to not share The Word/Jesus with anyone..."It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard." Acts 4

So true!!!  We burn to share those amazing powerful Truths we are given as we read his Word each day!  Just as the two on the road to Emmaus - "Did not our hearts burn within us as he shared the Gospel with us?"

The Easter candle lit at the Vigil and from which Jude's baptismal candle was lit at his baptism!

Such powerful words in the Meditation of the day by Madeleine Delbrel (1964)
The Gospel is the book of the Lord's life.  It is meant to become the book of our life too.
It is meant to be grappled with rather than grasped - as we grapple with something that it on the brink of mystery.
It is meant to be received within us rather than simply read by us.  Each of its words is spirit and life.  In their freedom and nobility they are just waiting for our soul's hunger for them to become part of us.
Living as they are, they are like that initial yeast which attacks our dough, ferments it and makes it alive with new kind of life.
The words in a human book are understood and pondered.
The words of the Gospel are experienced and endured.
We absorb the words of other books.  The words of the Gospel kneed us, change us, and so to speak absorb us into their own being.
The words of the Gospel are miraculous.  If they don't transform us, it's because we don't ask them to.  But in each of Jesus' phrases, in each example that he gives there is a staggering power that would awe, purify, and raise us from the dead, if only we acted with that immediate and complete obedience toward him that was shown by the paralytic or the centurion.  

As I read this with Pat this morning... I was amazed to read in words the Truth of Jesus in His Word!

 Pat grinding corn yesterday.  Lord, help the farmers to get that window they need to get the crop planted and help them keep the cows and calves safe and healthy in this weather!

 My apple tree getting ready to blossom... I am sure nice weather is good for those apples too!

I was excited to find some lettuce that came up from last year's seed... no garden planting yet, so this will be very nice to have in a few weeks!  

Jesus, we cannot hold back on sharing with all we meet about you!  How we love and adore you and are thrilled each day with how we are fed at your table with your Body and Blood, and by your Word!  Jesus, we trust in you.  Amen and Hallelujah

I was hoping that these 3 could be my travel companions to KC, but they are unable to go now.  I guess I will have to share pictures with them instead of the real thing... baby Jude to meet his Aunt Hallel and her Community of the Lamb in person.  You are one lucky little boy, Jude to have all that love and prayers surrounding you from our Family of the Lamb!  Bless-bless, Grandma Barb

Hail Mary full of grace... my chapel on wheels will be filled with my 10 decades of the rosay, The chaplet of Divine Mercy and Christian music to allow me to get down the road to KC!