A Daily Dose of God

 

A Prayer for Our Nation and a Smile for us

 

Loving God help us to serve, guide our leaders, bless our nation and bestow Your grace upon our elected officials anointing them to promote the common good.  Amen.  [Dcn. George Kelly]

 

 

 

Take a moment from the 2020 elections and thank God for the gift of children.

The Assurance of a Child's Smile

It's without fail: Place a baby in the midst of any group of adults - young or old, scholars or carpenters, artists or accountants, wine connoisseurs or beer drinkers - and every adult in the room will try to make the baby smile.

They'll gently shake the baby's hand, they'll make silly faces, they'll smile until their cheeks ache - all to make the baby return the smile or maybe even chuckle. And if and when the baby smiles (after a while, even a whispered coo will do), everyone will break into applause and cheers.

A child alternates between quiet fascination and chuckles whenever he or she is paying attention to something. What makes sense, what's accepted, produces a smile; anything else is immediately rejected.

Something inside of us tells us that if we can make a baby smile, then we're OK.

A baby's smiling at us confirms that we are unconditionally loved. A baby's smile is the universe's seal of approval. In a baby's smile, we're connected, across the ages, to that which good and beautiful - and hopeful.  [Connections]

Our family has been blessed this year with two new grandchildren: Elin Joan Kelly [March 29, 2020], and Kellen David Koch [May 4, 2020] despite the Coronavirus Pandemic we can still smile at God’s gift of new life.  Join me in praying for an end to the Coronavirus virus and thanking God for new life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May God Be Praised!

 

COVID 19 Pandemic Prayer

Hear my cry!  “Lord, listen to my prayer: turn your ear to my appeal.”  You are my refuge and my hope, I turn to you during this COVID 19 Pandemic and plead for Your intercession.  In Your mercy and Your compassion “… grant eternal rest to the dead, comfort to mourners, healing to the sick ….”

[Psalm 143 and Collect from Mass Time in Pandemic]

 

Provide strength to the first responders, compassion to the medical personnel, and wisdom to government leaders.  End this coronavirus scourge.  Send Your light to me as I wander in the darkness of this pandemic and give me hope in Your eternal love today and every day.  Amen.  [Dcn. George Kelly]