I am so happy to be back
To all my Saint Monica Prayer Group if you are out there.
Lets start with a prayer: Dear Lord God of Heaven and Earth, help us today and everyday with our struggles and pain. May we always know that you are ever at our side and always within arms reach.
Well I have had quite an experience these last few months. I sent my computer away to be fixed and entered into a nightmare that has not ended yet. So I am on a borrowed machine and I am having trouble posting my blog. Just to let you know it's not that I haven't been writing its just that I can't get it to publish, so here I am again hopeing that this gets out there.
So many things have been called to my attention that need to be talked about I hardly know where to start.
As of late I have been breaking my own rule about going to daily Mass. I have been tired and not feeling all that well and I have found that it is taking me more engery and strength to just do the things that have to be done, like work, that my body just won't go when I want it to.
I have been trying to send out cards to those who I know are struggling with health issues and I am falling behind in my endever. I am trying to offer up a prayer when I am making my rosary beads to those that have asked me to pray for them but I don't always have time to sit and bead. I am still trying to work out how to get my son and his problems in tune with how my world should go. I know that sounds strange but if you have been following my thoughts since July then you have some idea of what I am talking about. I have been giving this a lot of thoght lately and I think that I feel better when I look at him as a blessing that noone can see instead of a burden that it felt. He has a lot of unusual qualities that can be over looked or misunderstood. Anyway my troubles are small and few and since I have lived with them for so long they don't seem all that important any more. When I talk about them it is only for the purpose of letting others understand that I am aware of heartache and hatetred, misunderstanding, and all the other baggage that comes into our lives.
A friend and fellow singer has been going through a really rough patch with her new baby granddaughter. The baby was born early and has been challanged with many health problems. I think about my friend and the child all the time. I send up little thought prayers though out the day asking God to lay his love on this baby and the family that loves her. I haven't heard how things are going in a while I can only leave it in God's care and know that he will be with them no matter what the outcome.
Another friend and fellow singer is going to undergo back surgery the first part of January. They are going to remove a tumor from her spine. They don't know what the tumor is yet so this is frightening to my friend it is taking all her faith and strength to be calm and give it to God. She is so peaceful and opptimistic that I have no doubt that she will handle it with grace and accept what God has given her.
Yet another friend and singer is not singing these days because she is having problems with her voice. I am not sure but I believe it has to do with illness that I don't have the specifics of at this time. I really miss her and want her to come back and sing with us a card is pending.
It has also come to my attention the problem of single parent homes in our communities. I was asking my daughter if she had any friends who were living with both natural parents. She had to think about it for a long time. She could think of three. Two of these friends I do not know there is only one that I know of out of at least thirty children. This to me is very sad. Also at the daycare that I work at I would say that 90% are single family or worse mixed family some married some just living together. It seems that adults are just living to make themselves happy and are under the delusion that if they are happy the kids will adjust and be happy as well. This is not the case. Children who have grown up in these circumstances don't know what a stable relationship is and the cycle continues and grows and spreads. How can anyone make sense of the big picture when the little picture has not taught them the right lessons. Families are suppose to be mico- settings of how the big world works they are suppose to nurture and develop the child and give them a sense of self and where they fit into things. How can it be nurturing if the parents only think of themselves and they do this because they weren't nurtured it is a vicous cycle. There are only a few cases where divorce was the only option all others could have healed and grown from the experience but it was just easier to give up and move on to greener pastures. We always think about the world at large and how it is so messed up when all we have to do is look at our oun communities and understand why.
Well these are just my thoughts and I don't claim to be an expert it is just the way I see things. I ask God to help me do my part to correct this mess in any way no matter how small that I can. We need to choose God not our own selfish desires and that as I see it is the last thing that most people want to do.
I will end with a verse from scripture: When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest." Mt.9:36-38
Dear Saint Monica help us to learn from your example that it is best to leave our burdens and troubles with the Lord and not with ourselves.
Amen
Lets start with a prayer: Dear Lord God of Heaven and Earth, help us today and everyday with our struggles and pain. May we always know that you are ever at our side and always within arms reach.
Well I have had quite an experience these last few months. I sent my computer away to be fixed and entered into a nightmare that has not ended yet. So I am on a borrowed machine and I am having trouble posting my blog. Just to let you know it's not that I haven't been writing its just that I can't get it to publish, so here I am again hopeing that this gets out there.
So many things have been called to my attention that need to be talked about I hardly know where to start.
As of late I have been breaking my own rule about going to daily Mass. I have been tired and not feeling all that well and I have found that it is taking me more engery and strength to just do the things that have to be done, like work, that my body just won't go when I want it to.
I have been trying to send out cards to those who I know are struggling with health issues and I am falling behind in my endever. I am trying to offer up a prayer when I am making my rosary beads to those that have asked me to pray for them but I don't always have time to sit and bead. I am still trying to work out how to get my son and his problems in tune with how my world should go. I know that sounds strange but if you have been following my thoughts since July then you have some idea of what I am talking about. I have been giving this a lot of thoght lately and I think that I feel better when I look at him as a blessing that noone can see instead of a burden that it felt. He has a lot of unusual qualities that can be over looked or misunderstood. Anyway my troubles are small and few and since I have lived with them for so long they don't seem all that important any more. When I talk about them it is only for the purpose of letting others understand that I am aware of heartache and hatetred, misunderstanding, and all the other baggage that comes into our lives.
A friend and fellow singer has been going through a really rough patch with her new baby granddaughter. The baby was born early and has been challanged with many health problems. I think about my friend and the child all the time. I send up little thought prayers though out the day asking God to lay his love on this baby and the family that loves her. I haven't heard how things are going in a while I can only leave it in God's care and know that he will be with them no matter what the outcome.
Another friend and fellow singer is going to undergo back surgery the first part of January. They are going to remove a tumor from her spine. They don't know what the tumor is yet so this is frightening to my friend it is taking all her faith and strength to be calm and give it to God. She is so peaceful and opptimistic that I have no doubt that she will handle it with grace and accept what God has given her.
Yet another friend and singer is not singing these days because she is having problems with her voice. I am not sure but I believe it has to do with illness that I don't have the specifics of at this time. I really miss her and want her to come back and sing with us a card is pending.
It has also come to my attention the problem of single parent homes in our communities. I was asking my daughter if she had any friends who were living with both natural parents. She had to think about it for a long time. She could think of three. Two of these friends I do not know there is only one that I know of out of at least thirty children. This to me is very sad. Also at the daycare that I work at I would say that 90% are single family or worse mixed family some married some just living together. It seems that adults are just living to make themselves happy and are under the delusion that if they are happy the kids will adjust and be happy as well. This is not the case. Children who have grown up in these circumstances don't know what a stable relationship is and the cycle continues and grows and spreads. How can anyone make sense of the big picture when the little picture has not taught them the right lessons. Families are suppose to be mico- settings of how the big world works they are suppose to nurture and develop the child and give them a sense of self and where they fit into things. How can it be nurturing if the parents only think of themselves and they do this because they weren't nurtured it is a vicous cycle. There are only a few cases where divorce was the only option all others could have healed and grown from the experience but it was just easier to give up and move on to greener pastures. We always think about the world at large and how it is so messed up when all we have to do is look at our oun communities and understand why.
Well these are just my thoughts and I don't claim to be an expert it is just the way I see things. I ask God to help me do my part to correct this mess in any way no matter how small that I can. We need to choose God not our own selfish desires and that as I see it is the last thing that most people want to do.
I will end with a verse from scripture: When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest." Mt.9:36-38
Dear Saint Monica help us to learn from your example that it is best to leave our burdens and troubles with the Lord and not with ourselves.
Amen
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