Blog Post 4/21/2024 – Time with Family & Friends

 

Joanne, my wife, and I just returned from a short but wonderful vacation in North Carolina.  We were with her cousins and their spouses.  The Lord blessed our time together with laughter, tears, and a dose of the Holy Spirit to inform our time together.  We shared joys, sorrows, hopes and prayers.  May each person on earth be so blessed with family and friends and the gift of time to spend with them.  With grateful hearts we offer thanks and praise to the Lord who enabled our gathering. 

May each of us “… through the contemplation of Jesus’ Wounds” realize that all is gift and how we respond to each person or event in our lives is our gift to God.   We are called to “Seek the Lord, alleluia.”  Easter Season is our time to remember the Lord is Lord of heaven and earth, and we are His people.

Today take a few minutes to ponder these words from St. Ephrem, “He who was also the carpenter’s glorious son set up his cross above death’s all-consuming jaws and led the human race into the dwelling place of life. Since a tree had brought about the downfall of mankind, it was upon a tree that mankind crossed over to the realm of life.”

May God Be Praised.