Thursday, September 26, 2024

Harvest Time/"Fill us at daybreak with your kindness" - She gathering week 2 - Satan hates women and children - +JMJ+

Yes, sweet Tommy has dimples like his grandpa Pat!  We went out to check out the combine and grain cart that were sitting in front of his house waiting for the beans to dry down - less tough to combine in the sun and the wind after overnight drips.
The huge tire on the combine and cute 2 1/2 year old Tom... he will be 3 in Mid November that is quickly upon us. 
There is a big ladder to climb up on the combine, but the door was locked so no sitting inside.
Tom and the grain cart in the bright sunlight.  Perfect weather for taking out the crop with no rain in the forecast.  
They combined the field across from our house next and now one on Hwy 59.
My patron Saint - St Luke glowed in the setting sun.  Why Luke? When I converted to the Catholic Church with my entire family of 13 in 1971... I was in nursing school at St Kates, and St Luke was a physician.  I also love what he shares with us of Our Lady, and much about the women close to Jesus.  We have Mary's Magnificat, and also the Canticle of Zachariah that we repeat each morning in Morning Prayer of The Church!  We see such a beautiful picture of pregnant Mary and Elizabeth in the Visitation.  Luke is wonderful, plus his symbol is a bull.  And now that I have been a farm wife for 46 years - it seems to be appropriate for me!  

How I love to share the story that continues to this day of how the Lord and Lady have led us into The Catholic Church and feeds us with each new day! Every single day of those 20,440 days (365 days x53 years) has been filled with so much for me!  The Gospel for the day, mass every day, The Saint of the day, Morning and Evening Prayer of The Church...

Family Soul Story - Choose Life!: The amazing story of the 13 becoming Catholic!  

A tire bigger than grandpa!  

I have been given the gift to share my story of how Family and Friends have helped me in my Faith Journey at this next Emmaus retreat!  I will give it for many that have made the retreat in the past on my birthday - Sunday October 6!  

The teeth were surprisingly of hard black plastic.  
Squinty eyes in the sun.  
Tom and Joy visiting "Mother of us all - Mary Most Holy"   They are so at home at church - every Sunday at 8a Mass we share with our Marshall son and daughter and their families!  Our greatest Joy!  

Today was our second gathering for Our She Shall be Called Woman gathering.  It is a very early morning on Thursdays at 6a, and there are so many women young and old that are coming to listen to a sharing video, and then we meet at tables with other women to answer questions, and share from our hearts!

The speaker today spoke about how we can deal with those anxieties that Satan puts upon us at times like when we lay down to bed at night, or when we are taking some leisure time.  She made the comment "Satan hates women and children, because we are the closest to Jesus."  Wow!  I do see that family is under attack as that is the Domestic Church where we share our Faith.  And as my husband listened to the Holy Spirit in our marriage and we now live the family motto - "The World needs LIGHTS!"  Open to LIFE and raising LIGHTS for the world of sin and darkness!  

Family Soul Story - Choose Life!: Our marriage stories - "The world needs LIGHTS!"  Another part of my story that I love to share!  

The Psalm from mass today speaks of how we were gathered to share our Faith with one another as the sun was rising... Psalm 90 

Fill us at daybreak with your kindness,
that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days.
Prosper the work of our hands for us!
Prosper the work of our hands!
R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.  Psalm 90

So excited to show me his tractor and wagon!  
"Fill us at daybreak with your Kindness."
Mass on Monday evening - Fill us in the Evening with your Body and Blood, O Lord!  
Helped Pat move the cows in our back pasture - the bright green grass is where the creeks overflowed early this summer.  Now much of the creeks are dry with pools here and there for the cows to drink yet. 
A statue of Blessed Carlos Acutis 

In my dad's prayer of The Church today - LOVE!  He had memorized this prayer and we said it each evening after sharing Evening prayer .  "Your love reaches to the heavens and your Truth to the skies."  
Blessed Carlo Acutis protector of the Internet.  He has a site with Eucharistic Miracles!  

Thank you Lord and Lady for blessing us with a way to share and grow in our Faith.  Jesus, we trust in you.  Amen and Hallelujah  

Bless-bless, Barb and the 33


 

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