The Pat and Barb Verly family and their 5 children, in laws and grandkids along with many prayer warriors have been drawn together by John's cancer... sharing daily for 8 months started this blog- Family Soul Story - Our faith, family, farm and now our cancer journey called HEALING have colored and deepened our world. WE continue to share and depend on the support of our prayer warrior community, that has lowered us into the Lord's presence for His healing!
A few weeks before my dad passed on October 23rd here on the farm... He went to see the harvest happening and was very impressed to see 12 year old David driving the tractor and raking the corn stalks ahead of his dad in the baler - corn stalk bales are very important as we enter calving with bedding and even mixed in feed from time to time.
Today David enters officially into teenage years at 13! How I remember the prayers constantly in my heart, mind and soul the day Ruth went to Sioux Falls to have him by C-section after being told no more children after rupturing while trying to Vback having Mary over 2 years before. The Catholic surgeon, who had saved her uterus, told Ruth to give her uterus a year to heal well and then more children were possible for her. She is now expecting her 7th child in mid November! Her 4th since David.
Dad watching Dave at work and was very impressed. Dad took great interest in our life on the farm, and there were many times I would drive him to witness the farm work like baling the grass in the ditch by our home or combining corn and beans.
"Wow Dave! You are driving that big tractor and helping? That is wonderful!"
"Well, grandpa, I had better get going again. Here comes dad with the baler."
Dumping out a bale and on he goes.
Great grandpa shared licorice with the workers when they stopped in to do jobs here. I have now added some ice cream cones in the freezer in the garage for them to have when they come by. David is very wonderful to come and weed eat for me from time to time, and I sure appreciate his help!
David is a duck farmer - he raised some last year and sold the eggs for a big profit... this years ducks now are at my house since they left to the Boundary waters adventure and were getting into Ruth's garden...
Getting a cone on a hot day - thanks, boys! I want you to come back and help old grandma from time to time. It just gets funny when you are aging and all your help is gone. Something is wrong with that picture.
The Camden bunch last week - David has now joined Therese at 13 - they are just 4 months apart!
Out standing in his field a few years back. David is a good helper on the farm, and seems to really like doing it. That seems to be the secret behind taking to the farm and not. Time will tell and Jesus has the final word for the path David will take in his life. Jesus is in control and has a plan for David alone!
Ten years ago today on David's birthday #3... Michigan memories are strong with Dave! He can get grandma emotional when he asks me when we are going back there. We had fake plans to try to get there this summer but it is quickly filling up now with the County Fair and the State Fair for the first time for Dave this year.
Dave and Gus are close... almost 3 years apart in age
Last years' goat - now Mary has a herd and I am sure that Dave will be showing one at the County Fair along with pigs and cows.
A year ago we got to go to KC with Dave and Rose while my brother took care of dad here. Hallel, who loves to work with wood, made a bench with Dave. It was special time for them to share with grandpa Pat too!
This was a heartwarming sight to see them working together on a bench which now sits by the garden.
Another one from 10 years ago with our feet in sugar sand!
7 years ago was the year that Therese got a Little Sisters Habit for her birthday and grandma had to do a photo shoot! She definitely has religious life as one of her options in her future life. I pray that each of my grandchildren will have that as an option as they ask the Lord to show them his plan for them. Religious life or the priesthood or deaconate is a most wonderful option!
How I love this as we gaze upon this icon all around us!
LOVE this too! May we see Christ in all those around us - most especially those in our domestic Church/family!
The words of Christ today to us in the Gospel! I desire mercy, not sacrifice, Matthew 12
We are shown endless Mercy and unconditional forgiveness - may we return that to those around us most especially those the closest to us. "Wounded, I will never cease to love." the motto of The Community of the Lamb is so true. Those that we love the most we tend to treat the worst. How can that be? The least little things are hurtful, and we react negatively. May we give Mercy today!
Mom and dad are now there beside me visually in their 70th wedding anniversary picture. They are with me in all my reading each morning from their wonderful books of prayer they left behind for me, so I love to see them, too!
2020 was quite the year with the death of both my parents 7 months apart! I am lifted up by their prayers and books of prayer. I am forever grateful to them for bringing the 13 into The Church 50 years ago. Each day since has been total gift to me with so much each new day now with the help of my parents, Pope Benedict XVI, Brother Victor Antione, The Prayer of The Church, Daily devotion by St Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Daily devotions by Bishop Fulton Sheen! I am overwhelmed by your LOVE and MERCY, my Lord and Lady!
My prayer space is also furniture from my parents' home and I feel like I am getting a hug! Hallel there too, and Yes, a reminder that I need to offer it up more! I am off to pray with 7 Sisters for Fr Denny now. Prayer is constant and fills me with peace and JOY! Jesus, we trust in you. Bless-bless, Barbara
Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel*
*Title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary,
in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order July 16
The Carmelites see in the Blessed Virgin Mary a perfect model of the interior life of prayer and contemplation to which Carmelites aspire, a model of virtue, as well as the person who was closest in life to Jesus Christ. She is seen as the one who points Christians most surely to Christ, saying to all what she says to the servants at the wedding at Cana,"Do whatever He [Jesus] tells you."Carmelites look to Mary as spiritually their mother and sister.
“Contemplating Mary,we will understand better
the transforming force that the Eucharist possesses.
Listening to her,we will find in the Eucharistic
mystery the courage and strengthto follow Christ
the Good Shepherd and to serve Him in our brothers.”
Pope St. John Paul II
June 10, 2004
Devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel is expressed through the scapular.
“The scapular is an external sign of the filial relationship established between the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother and Queen of Mount Carmel, and the faithful who entrust themselves totally to her protection, who have recourse to her maternal intercession, and who are mindful of the primacy of the spiritual life and the need for prayer” (Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy, 205).
Danielle Rose - only feast day in July for Mary, the Mother of God, today!
Salve Regina - the same that my little sisters sing each night before bed! LOVE!
Mom and dad are now there beside me visually in their 70th wedding anniversary picture. They are with me in all my reading each morning from their wonderful books of prayer they left behind for me, so I love to see them, too!
2020 was quite the year with the death of both my parents 7 months apart! I am lifted up by their prayers and books of prayer. I am forever grateful to them for bringing the 13 into The Church 50 years ago. Each day since has been total gift to me with so much each new day now with the help of my parents, Pope Benedict XVI, Brother Victor Antione, The Prayer of The Church, Daily devotion by St Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Daily devotions by Bishop Fulton Sheen! I am overwhelmed by your LOVE and MERCY, my Lord and Lady!
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