Asking Jesus for the huge and the small/My hour with Jesus in the dark

 Joy and grandma went out to meet the new calf, Maggie!  She was a sweet healthy heifer, so we have 2 baby heifers starting our calving season!

Yesterday was spent working on Cow TV and Ruth's carpeting being put in her home remodel.  Lots of activity at the farm inside and out!

 When grandma opened the door this was the sight I beheld!  Joy there living up to her name and filling me with a jolt of happiness at being so loved and welcomed with so much LOVE and JOY!

 LOVE these muddy boots of the two younger girls - Joy and Rose again.  The mud of spring is here and rubber boots are a must on the farm!

 Joy showed me the first calf and her mom - Minnie will be M1 on her eartag and her brindle face will allow them to remember that her name is Minnie in her years of being in the herd.

 Maggie got under the fence so Joy could take a walk with her while her mom watched from the other side of the fence.

Grandpa came to put Maggie back her mother..."She is a good mother cow." said grandpa.  We sure like the nice spring weather and pray that we will not have in April again this year.  Lord, hear our prayer.

The Gospel today is amazing!  We are reminded that we ask the Lord for all those things that are out of our hands and in His!  Jesus is in control!
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds;
and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Matthew 7:7-12

 Joy showing the new built in dressers in each new bedrooms.

 The old linoleum on the steps are covered and will be carpeted along with all the bedrooms and halls upstairs!

 Luke and David's room is carpeted!  Joy gets it ready for the bunk beds.

Overnight I had my hour with Jesus at 4a in the windy darkness.  As I sat there and looked at Jesus in humble form in the monstrance and recalled on the 3rd Luminous Mystery/The Proclamation of the Kingdom of my rosary prayer I would ponder Jesus preaching the Sermon on the Mount of the side of the mountain and listening to His Words of Truth and LIGHT realizing that this was God, who created the world and the land, grass, insects the universe above and around me!

Inside I bowed in Adoration with the angels of either side - "My Lord, and My God" which I repeat when the Body is lifted up at consecration and the Blood lifted up!  So powerful and amazing and truly Jesus comes to us so closely in this time of prayer!

Eucharistic Adoration 

is the most necessary mission to the Church, 

which has even more need of prayerful souls

than of powerful preachers or men of eloquence.

Today more than ever have we need of people who,

by their self immolation, disarm the anger of God 

inflamed by the ever increasing crimes of nations.

We must have souls who by their importunity 

re-open the treasures of grace 

which the indifference of the multitude has closed.

We must have true adorers; that is to say, 

people of fervor and sacrifice.

When there are many around the divine Savior, 

God will be glorified, Jesus loved; 

society will become Christian, won to Jesus Christ 

by the apostolate of Eucharistic prayer."

St Peter Julian Eymard

 Mom was a little bit close to Joy, the gate in between her calf, Joy and mother Cow.

The Gospel reminds us that we can not only pray for our domestic Church/family and each member or the 250 that I put in the monstrance with Jesus from Pat's family and mine - ours!  But we can pray for our country and for this world and all the crazy sinful ways that are being taken for truth.  The lies of Satan that are accepted as the way to go like cohabitation before marriage and thinking that we can take life into our own hands through abortion and birth control.  So many prayers over so many years, months, days and minutes of our lives!  And he truly is answering them with those that save one life at a time outside abortion clinics or by getting judges in place that respect LIFE!  By sharing our Faith with JOY in our homes!  Baby steps as we ask for change and help in bringing LIFE/LOVE/LIGHT into the world!

 Brave farm girl JOY will be 3 at the end of this month!

 Farmer grandpa is Joy's hero and he cares so well for his animals as he feeds the world!

Jesus, there is so much all around us that we see evil lived and accepted.  How we long to have your LIGHT and Truth shine on the darkness of the culture of death to reveal the lies that are accepted and taught to the next generation.  May your LIGHT shine far and wide.  May we die to self so that we may be your hands and feet.  Jesus, we trust in you.  Amen

 Mom and baby calf Maggie happily together!  Off to a good start with many prayers and hours day and night watching Cow TV!  Also keeping the corn stalk bedding soft and warm and dry for the new calves to arrive in the world healthy and safe and snug.  The year of "M" calves with Mother Mary watching over them!  Bless-bless, Barb

Luke and David's bunk beds are put together.  I think the weekend will be so busy with kids moving into their new rooms and all that happens with beds put together.

A memory from 14 years ago - Sam and John with champion Cow-calf pair at the fair 2006!

The same cow licking her 7th calf 9 years later in 2015!

A great picture of my brother, Al, with my parents 3 years ago!  Dad will be 95 tomorrow!

Wonderfully made - Danielle Rose
Lord, may lives be saved today and end this horror of taking innocent human life once and for all!