Blog Post 9-30-2024 - A Morning Prayer

 

“In the morning let me know your love for I put my trust in you. Make me know the way I should walk: to you I lift up my soul.” [Psalm 143]   

“My heart is ready, O God; I will sing, sing your praise.  Awake, my soul; awake, lyre and harp.  I will awake the dawn.” [Psalm 108].

 Dear God give me the Grace to follow Your Word, “Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet ….  [Psalm 139]”

Listen to Amy Grant sing “Thy Word”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OTVuGaiTsE

 

May God Be Praised and may your prayer nourish you.

Blog Post 9-29-2024 Our Highest Work on Earth

 

St. Katharine Drexel said, “The patient and humble endurance of the cross—whatever nature it may be—is the highest work we have to do."

Fr. Jacques Philippe wrote [Interior Freedom, p. 49] "By accepting the sufferings ‘offered’ by life and allowed by God for our progress and purification, we spare ourselves much harder ones. We need to develop this kind of realism and, once and for all, stop dreaming of a life without suffering or conflict. That is the life of heaven, not earth. We must take up our cross and follow Christ courageously every day; the bitterness of that cross will sooner or later be transformed into sweetness."

Offer the crosses you are carrying to the Lord.

 

May God Be Praised.

N.B. A loving and appreciative birthday wish to my sister, thanks Kathy and may your day be blessed.

Blog Post 9/28/2024 – The Gifts of Solitude & Light

 

Solitude can form us into gentle, caring, forgiving people, by helping us recognizing our sinfulness and becoming aware of God’s  mercy.  God’s mercy brings Light into the World’s darkness, and so we become beacons of God’s Hope by our lives.

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.  Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house.  Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father. “ [Matthew 5:14-16]

 

The Light of Christ Shining through Us helps the World to see clearly.

 

*** Mindi Oaten’s work at https://www.mindioaten.com/products/lamp-on-a-stand-fine-art-print?variant=42346132308218

 

May God Be Praised.