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My Dad an everyday hero!

16 Saturday Aug 2014

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Today, my heart was full of memories, It seems like a Fall day even though we are heading  into the middle of August. While praying over the last day and my blog writing my parents were in the front of my mind and stirring my heart. My mom which I will introduce you to shortly went to the Lord  Aug, 7 ,2013.

Today, I would like to give honor to my 86 year old Dad. He is referred to by everyone as Bill. He is just like his Father before him a family man, A Man Of God and led our family with strenght, and yet a gentle demeanor. My dad is a Marine and forever will be. My dad had responsibility far beyond his wife and 5 children. I am #4 out of 5. My dad worked very hard at his job and got extra work a second job to make sure that we were okay financially . My dad, as my mom always told us would come home with his pay and give it to her so she could juggle and handle the family budget. Back in that day it was common for the guy’s to get paid on thursdays and go have drinks after work. Not my dad, he was not one of those men. My dad donated time and materials and built an equipment box for the parish van and drove the equipment van to all band practices, and competitions that we had. All of his kids me included belonged to the St. Agnes Marching Band, concert band and we did plays with that orginazation as well. 12 total years of it. My father even lost two teeth with something falling out of the truck onto his face. Dedication! He volunteered all the time.  For his kids #1, but also Mr’ R was  everyone’ s dad, a lot of dads just were not there, so we were very proud of my dad and, proud that he is ours !!

Today, he is engaged in all of his family’s lives with quiet support but has never been envasive in our lives. His faith has been a beacon to our family bringing the Divine Mercy Chaplet to our home before the prayers were really common. St. Faustina. And, St. Michael is his best friend. 🙂 His faith is yet another reason that I have been able to weather this storm( cancer) so well in my life. Jesus and Faith are who we are, it is part of our family constitution. Our foundation is strong. And that is due to my dad too 🙂

My Dad is the dad that worked so much yet, he was always present. When he came home from work he met 5 screaming kids on the driveway. He would pull into the driveway and park at the end so we did not go into the street. He would get out of the car with his black baracuda jacket slung over  his arm.  He would hug us and in his hand was a little brown bag and he give us a peice of candy. I cannot forget how hansome he was/ is dark black hair and sky blue eyes. That was a Miracle to me My dad was there and just loved us so much. We had the first and only backyard  skating  rink in the neighborhood, that my dad made. all the neighbors down the block were good friends then !!! lol  Oh, by the way, we were all Marines he cut all his 4 boys hair regulation crew at his work bench, my mom would walk by and say. ooh Bill they look so good ! Beautiful memories! My sister went for the dorothy hamel look, so my dad did not dare to attempt that cut. LOL Girl’s get crabby! 🙂

Even after all of the hours he worked, I was insistent on becoming a newpaper boy so my parents helped me to make my dream come true. 🙂 By the way, I was 9ish…I was just like the Beev on the television show. Well the Sunday Globe was big in that day. Heavy.They had to be put together and stuffed and they also needed to be delivered by a certain time. Well , the papers would get dropped and I do mean dropped hard onto the front stoop at 4a.m. I needed to get down shortly after 5 to stuff them and my dad would load them into his car and he would deliver them with me. Need less to say you know who stuffed them most of the time dear old dad. LOL

But thats my dad always willing, never yelling at us he would just instruct you that this is not right. You see, when parenting you can lead without screaming and giving outbursts. And, when you choose to speak you measure your words,  people listen. That is my dad. Not me, I start off carm and then  the lid flips !!!

My father retired just in time to spend all of his time when not with us sitting by his dads bed in one hospital, his mothers bed in another hospital, my other grandfather that was yet in another facility. He left the crack of dawn on a bus, returned hours later to get his car and go up to his dads then off to peabody for his father in law my papa. They were all end of life illnesses. My mom was working, when she got out of work she came home and got us kids dinner. My healthy Nana Ilene got into the car with my mom and they were gone to make their hospital  visits. This was every day for a really long time! My dad then came home to be there for us. He never complained he just did out of love and was necessary and right to support his elders that he loved so much.You know, what families use to be like. He has witness Jesus to us all over all these years including my mom, she adored him and he  cherished her too. Thats why when I say stuff like I have had no advirsity in my life including my cancer people think, how could he ever say that? This account of who my dad is one of the reasons why. Love so strong, that it can right my ship. In essence, I was made a Marine by my dad by his standard and my haircut as a little boy 🙂 So, I can lay in a fox hole now with bullets flying that I   have full confidence that I will make it out and into the hands of my Heavenly Father.

My Dad met my mom when he was 21 years old at a cookout he was on a blind date. He saw my mom  and just knew that he really liked her. She was 16 and was at Matigon Highschool in Cambridge, Ma. My mom kept getting double promoted and was graduating early from highschool.

She was very mature for her age. So they related well even with the age difference of 5 years.

They were together married for I believe 59 years but knew eachother longer than that. A marriage made in Heaven and kept together because God was right their in the middle.

When my mom took ill 3 years ago, she had COPD for a number of years but the last three were full of infections of the lungs an in operable tumor in her lung and heavy treatment, hopitals etc. Again, I will be writing soon on what an amazing Spirit that she possessed.:) And she was a miracle too !

My Dad jumped in and just took over her home care, my brothers, sister, neices and nephew were there doing anything that was required. I could not be there physically because I had my cancer treatment in progress. I got there almost weekly, but we spoke a couple of times a day by phone and she was a beaming light and a rock firmly devoted to God and Adored Her Blessed Mother. She was no victim either, She did it her way for God’s glory. Amen.

My father stopped every activity that would take him from my moms side, he prayed with her, comforted her, cuddled her, and did it all. Christ in action! It was something that I could never fully describe.

I will say this, I hope someday to be one tenth  the dad to my kids that my dad has been for myself, brothers and sister.

To my dad ,

Love, The Pizza Man, and lots of other names.LOL right dad!

This is just a glimpse of who my dad is, Thankyou God for My Dad 🙂

Earthly Father  Enjoy

Ray Orbison In Dreams , For you Dad I know know how much you both loved Ray and this is reminds me of mom and you, Love beyond measure. D, S, B 

Our fathers carry half of our genetic makeup. Our relationship with our father plays a huge part of who we will become. In many segments of society, people grow up without ever knowing their fathers. This is unfortunate because fathers should play as important a role in raising their children as mothers. A father is the model of a man for his daughter and she will choose a man who is like him. A father is the model for his son as well. Fortunately, there is a trend for fathers to be more active in their children’s lives.

Again, below poem is from familypoems.com Karen K Boyer

Silent Strong Dad

He never looks for praises
He’s never one to boast
He just goes on quietly working
For those he loves the most
His dreams are seldom spoken
His wants are very few
And most of the time his worries
Will go unspoken too
He’s there…. A firm foundation
Through all our storms of life
A sturdy hand to hold to
In times of stress and strife
A true friend we can turn to
When times are good or bad
One of our greatest blessings,
The man that we call Dad.

You Take My Breath Away

14 Thursday Aug 2014

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If we stop for a moment and just think about, our lives, all those that we love, the air we breathe everything it is truely breath taking.  Nature, trees, animals, insects,  the sky with sun, moon and stars how much we must be loved by our God. We are living a daily Miracle.  Please may the world wake up and pay homage to our Amlmighty God. And give him thanks for all they he does for us all.  Amen.

Eva Cassidy

You take my breathe away.

Rosie’s Story

14 Thursday Aug 2014

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Today, I wanted to stop and speak about a women who effected my life profoundly. I feel that she was brought into my life by God to witness God to me. Her name was Rosie it should have been courage, faith and hope. She was all of these plus more. She would laugh all the time . I met Rosie back in the 1980’s she was a client of my business and was a recent breast cancer survivor.She had her husband and two children. In the eighties she was in her early 50’s she remained in contact with various projects with my families business. She had been  battling cancer that kept changing, she would fight it off and it would re-emerge. I / we in the business were very close to her and we became very good friends with her even coming to dinner at our home etc.

She was so heroic while in battle with cancer and was always laughing, saying this damn cancer and she would stamp her foot. She was so kind and absolutely loved her little dogs and her cat. She had a very tough upbringing of abuse and had a very nice husband and two children. I have never met anyone like her before and suspect that I never will again. She was caring, loving, broken and wanted to just love. We did a lot of projects in her home major and she was so pleased. She did to her house everything that she did not because she liked stuff, but because she was still trying to soothe the child inside who was never at home. She was in remission at this time. One day on a Friday it was the summer a car came into our driveway at work. I was outside the bldg with my brother and we looked it was Rosie she was coming up to us and we said hi Rosie, she responded I am mad as hell, I had to get out of the house, she said! I said whats wrong honey ? You know a few blogs ago when I wrote about the mind setting me off with worry years ago, well she had just found out that the cancer was back on fire again, her mind was wheeling and she coulld not stand it. I said Rosie come on into  the office and sit down we had lemonade in the frig, she said okay. She went on to tell us thay they could not do anything for her cancer  because as she said her bones were like swiss cheese from all of the treatments. She was 73 ( so young)

Looking back at my life I have been by a lot of peoples bed before they passed, and I believe that I was called to make sure that they were at peace. but again that is for another day.

Now, back to Rosie….

She was a remarkable women and only  had an outburst once in front of me about her situation, and I as well as my brothers were honored that she trusted us and felt that we would understand. What people,  everyone of us has to understand is that everyone one of us no matter what we do for work in our lives has a ministry of our own. So, I talked a whole lot about God with Rosie, I could see God in her and she recognized the Spirit in me.  We were in constant contact from that point and I would call to see how she and her family were doing. She came to my home in Oct 2007 for dinner with her husband and I still count that dinner as one of most favorite memories here in our home. She was in constant pain and never complained, She ate very well. After a while she asked if we could go into my family room. She wanted to rest on the couch. I said sure. When we went into that room one of my kids was watching a little kid halloween show and she sat on the couch, my little dog’s took to her right away. They jumped on to the couch as kissed her, they were glued to her. She was laughing at the dogs and laughing at the cute show that was on television. She was a living angel. Her face stays with me and brings me so much joy.

Well, along came the Spring and things got really tough. She was drawing closer to her time and she was sleeping in her room the one room  that never got done in her home. She got too sick, so it looked like the 60’s still.  She had been  insistent at that time to sleep in her bed. She went into the hospital for  around 4 days  days and God spoke so loudly to me, I talked to her husband John and said please I want to re-do your bedroom for Rosie, I have to it at night, if you don’t mind. My schedule was already booked.

I said I would complete it at no cost to them at all as a gift to Rosie. He felt bad, I said no, I really want to so do this, he said thank you. With that I began, I tore that room apart, stripped wallcovering, and completed remade the whole room with paint, new window treatments, assesories and bedding. You see, God called me to lift her and her entire family up in this moment. Rosie came home from the hospital and cried with joy. She called me on the phone a few days afterward and told me how she felt like she was finally at home.

Rosie continued her struggle eventually a hospital bed was brought into her livingroom and a nurse began routine visits. Rosie always fought on and would smile all the time with her beautiful blue eyes just beaming. I would say to her we have to offer the stuff up. We talked about God all the time, Heaven and her mom and a few other loved one that had passed. She had been a regular church goer earlier on in her life but had fallen away for one reason or another. But still loved her parish of St. Jerome in Arlington. She loved Jesus and Her Blessed Mother, too. Unfornutaely the church she attended St. Jerome was closed and property was sold around this time.

Their was one neighbor Mary who was her best friend and could not bare to see Rosie suffering for so many years. Mary was a daily communicant in church in another parish in Arlington, she moved parishes when St. Jeromes closed. Mary tried to get Rosie to go but she never quite got there. Well, Rosie was getting close to the point where God would call her and I said Rosie, would like to see a priest and talk to him? She said okay. When her husband came home, I had been there giving him a break. I said John Rosie would like to see a priest and she responded yes John. So he said okay Rosie, I will call. I said I will see you soon honey and left.

I went home and decided to walk the lake and pray. I got about 1/3 around the lake and my cell phone went off, It was Mary, she said I saw you leave Rosie’s and popped in to see her. She told me about the priest coming so I asked John and he said no she can’t do it she is too weak. Mary said,  Danny can you please call the priest and get him there? My heart was on fire, I lost the breath  in my lungs. I stood on the side of the lake where time stood still and Heaven took over ! I dialed directory assistance, and asked for St. Agnes Rectory in Arlington, they connected me. The secretary answered and I told her the story and Rosie’s desire for confession, eucharist and Holy oil (sacrament of the sick). I gave her home address and they said the attending priest would be there shortly. Next I had to call Rosie’s very strong willed husband John.

I Remember I could not even breathe so my voice was being forced out….This is the conversation with John.

Hi John this is Danny, There is a priest coming to your home very shortly from St. Agnes to see Rosie..  He said but she won’t see him, I said John,  she said that she wants to see him. He said what do I do ? I said John when the priest comes to the door he will ring the bell, you will answer it and show him into see Rosie and if she does not want to see him then she will send him away . He said okay. I hung up and almost died myself. I had been so strong and bold with him which is not my way. But you see God handled him the way that he needed to be handled he was in his late 70’s very much my elder and was a very strong personality.Again God took over ! Thank God, he did !

About 10 minutes later my phone rang again, Mary was on the phone, she saw a black car pull up to Rosies house and a young priest run up the walkway. I hung up Mary had been crying with joy on the phone and I too began to join that celebration with my own tears.

Finally, around 20 or so minutes later John called me,( I was so afraid to answer, but I did) ) he was all excited. He said,  Hi Dan ! I said hi John, he said I wanted to let you know that a very young nice priest came down from St. Agnes. Father G, I said I have heard about him. He then said, Rosie had a nice visit, I left and she had confession, communion and blessing of the sacrament  oil for the sick. He offered to come again and she said great.  He said thank you Dan. That’s Victory through God !

That was it , she then said, she wanted to sleep in her own bed so they took her up to her bedroom she was there for two days before she went to hospice. She was at peace though and that’s all that matters. She was good with God, ask my grandfather would say.

In life God will call us out of our comfort zones, if Mary had not gotten out of her comfort zone and listened to her calling  then I may not have acted  in Rosies best interest and her wishes would not have been met. Everyone deserves to be listened to especially as they are preparing to meet their maker.

I got a call July 4th, 2008 from John saying that Rosie had gone to the Lord.

Later that same morning….

I went down into my garage and was backing out  in my car and I have a retaining wall with a flower bed at level with my eyes to the left. I looked and there was a white lily plant in full bloom. Rosie loved lilly’s, I went right in and told my wife. Rosie  was a miracle in so many lives to so many people and I thank God for my Rosie. 🙂 That plant has never bloomed again.

God Bless You ,

Danny

This was her favorite song:     Heres to Rosie, maybe we can all say a prayer for her. 🙂

Louis Armstrong What a wonderful World

Her second Favorite Song.  Enjoy 🙂

Somewhere over the Rainbow.

Judy Garland

Its Pouring Outside So

13 Wednesday Aug 2014

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I Just stepped out my door onto my deck to let my old puppies outside. It is pouring out and I will tell you my son said dad your getting soaked I said who cares and he laughed. I feel so alive in this moment and we all should. Forget about the clouds and rain that falls in our lives. The next song came to mind so here it is. Rejoice in this day because this moment will pass and we do not want to miss it. 

so turn up the speakers and get up 🙂

Toby Mac   Me Without You

In The Beginning and My first Heavenly Vision/ Vivid Dream.

13 Wednesday Aug 2014

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In The Beginning of true Spiritual awakening of all of us is a long time in the making. We experience different levels of awareness in God, his existence and supreme gift to us all and I m not talking about life 🙂 That is a Miracle in itself.  I am referring to the gift of The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit as far as I am concerned is our bridge to the Almighty, he facilitates all that is good, he inspires us, he warns us,he allows God to fill us with joy and allows our conscience to feel guilt for a wrong doing.The Holy Spirit will help to bring us to our knees for repentence before our Lord. The Holy  Spirit that dwells within every one of us is God given and works in concert with our desires, needs and to allow us to fulfill our destiny for God and his people. We need to allow The Holy Spirit to work with us. We need to pray for his assistance in a meaningful way. I mentioned this in one of my recent blog writing that I began praying and commiting myself to God and the holy Spirit with my daily shower and telling all of Heaven that the water was my rededication and reminder of my baptismal water. I say daily to God that I surrender myself to whatever he wants from me and tell the Holy Spirit to please use me to the best of my ability. Lastly, I call on all of Heaven through my prayers for all of the Angels and Saints to please bestow on me any gifts of the Spirit that I may need in the future. Heaven is for real.:) This is a very special time that we are living in, a time like no other. It is a time of Miracles, it is a time of God’s pouring out of The Holy Spirit and Spiritural gifts for eachone of us. We all have our very own special gifts. Some we are born with some we acquire from God in the moment of his choosing. Our gifts can bend and change over a period of time based on what God wants and needs us to accomplish. The one prerequsite that God has for each of us to open our hearts and desire to be an agent of good to be the light to oneanother. It is simple. Through my childhood, adolescence and even into my 30’s I was always searching for my true God and his existence. I could feel him to a certain degree but the picture was still far from focus. During that time for me the 90’s.  Life had a lot of moments of hurts from people you know, daily nonsence. Its hard to see God when you are surrounded by others who are not necessarily in Christ or God based. You are wandering around in a crowd of lost sheep many of which have no idea that they are even lost. I am not judging but  it is indeed a fact.   Well in the latter part of my 30’s I managed to bring my picture into a little more clarity with prayer and the assistance of others through a beautiful retreat know as Cursillo in a retreat house know as St. Basil’s in Methuen, Ma. that was I believe in Oct 1999. My wife went in November of the same year. It was life changing, the focus and picture was now crystal clear! It was an intersection where God made himself and his presence known. It is a Miracle, just as St. Basils is. You should call and look into this retreat house. It will be the best gift that you can give yourself ! So, I came back from that retreat and one of my friends called me the next day and  said, hey Dan, I saw you walking on the water of the lake today 🙂  It was so funny,he knew that I was on Fire .lol Each day that we live sets the stage for the next day and action. So all of the many little or big moments of my daily journey that come out onto this blog journal are always building for a bigger God moment. They are all God moments because he is there with us getting us through. All of our Spiritual Gifts are to be shared. It is not about us. This blog tells my journey through God. It his victory over death (my) and yours. God wants my life psalm #139 shared so that all will see him, and draw closer to our Heavenly Father.    4- 5 years ago, I am not sure of the date, I was called out of the blue into some of the most intense Spiritual experiences that I could ever have imagined. I was blown out of the water, I will just refer to them as writing for my church. The details of those writings were not for us , they are for the church. I will say this anyone with a sense of Spiritural awareness just needs to look at the news or turn on the television to see what is going on. The world is out of balance. This process was stretching myself and family to the max. The Holy Spirit is just so awesome. My spiritual adviser said to me , Dan, lets just see where it goes, and we did. I will explain about this experience at a later date.   My first vision, vivid dream, about 4-5 years ago during the time I was doing the  church writings. I was asleep and had the most vivid dream. God uses our own lifes experiences and will make them part of his message in my case it was based in my lifes work and I have been for over 30 years through the gift of the  Holy Spirit an interior Designer. I have done projects that when I had completed them looked at them and said, God, I did that! I did through God and love alone complete my projects .More on that later too!:) So, I was sleeping and my vision which seemed like forever started. I am giving my account  to you exactly as It happened and was told to my priest, my adviser and friend long ago… This remember was more that 3 years before my cancer diagnosis. I walked up to the door of this house and rang the bell. I had decorating samples in my hand. A women came to the door and opened it, I just remember how pleasant she was, I could hear children laughing and she said, excuse me for a moment and walked away off to the left in the direction of the children. I did not see them but heard them laughing.  So, I stood there and it seemed like a while, I being the type A personality and loving what I did. I said to myself, I will just walk in to the right here and see what she needs. So the interior was very itherial everything was a very soothing white color. It was extremely peaceful. I just kept walking and ahead of me was a hallway with a very bright light people were coming out of the light and passing me again all faces were non descript, everything was very etherial and white. I noticed that there was something on the wall that everyone that came out of the hall seemed to be stopping to look at so, I wandered over to it and looked and was a very pale colored picture I recognized it immediately. It was the shroud of Turin. I have to say this too, I had never given  1 seconds thought to the shroud in my life yet here it was . Well any way I could hear voices from down the end of the long extremely bright hallway and hear a booming voice and laughter it was pure joy. When I got to the entrance I realized, I shouldn’t be here, I had wondered from where I was left to wait. I would never wander around my clients home. So, I returned to where I was waiting by the door. I was getting annoyed and it was like 4 hours. Well, the really pleasant women was back and said she was sorry for the delay and she opened the door to the left of me. The children were quiet now  and she guided me into the room. I stood there and there was a very large white table in front of me. As I stood there the women was standing to the left side of the table looking at me and there was another figure to the right side of the table looking at me  as well. The women looked at me and, I felt love like I had never felt before. She said again sorry for the wait, I remember having been so angry to had to wait 4 hours for her to return and , I just responded its okay and she said to me you are an angel. Of course, I told Father I am certainly not, I am a sinner like everyone. I remember feeling intense love. I knew that it was my Blessed Mother. She without  a word uttered pointed down to the table and moved her hand over the surface as if  she wiped the table and the white milky color left and it now had a clear glass. It was a case.  I could see all kinds of relics, bottles of oils, and religous statues related to my faith and she spoke these words to me, We want you to have many Spiritual gifts. And that was it. I woke up and is as alive today and vivid as the time that it occured.   I have had years to think of why The Blessed Mother would call me an angel, because I am not. So I have a couple of thoughts on that. 1.) She knowing that I was upset with waiting for her which my Blessed Mother would know and yet I told her no problem thought that I was kind? 2.) Everything that I have done in writing including this blog through the Holy Spirit is never about me or any one of us . We are all loved the same. And what mother does not look upon her child at least as  an angel in training?  🙂 Thats the best I can do on that thought last but not least the booming laughter and joy was,  I know, was Our God!  I was given a glimpse of Heaven. I pray everyday to continue to grow for his purpose and into his will completely . Amen. Better Is one day In Your House By Kutless https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdE03zRJtxw   In Christs Holy Name, Danny

Lead Me For All Dads

12 Tuesday Aug 2014

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This is a video that I have loved for so long. I think I certainly could relate to the sentiments in this song, life is like this on dad’s, lots of pressure and the way we process stuff is different that our spouces. I touched on this topic yesterday in my blog about looking for stuff too, it represents more that the physical stuff. I truely found God when I was raising my children and the so called sacrafices were selfish desires only. This video and song should be an anthem for all dads. God and Family first they are our most precious gifts.What this world is tomorrow is based on what we do today as dads. The teachers meetings, school plays, birthday parties, bed side stories and family prayer etc are the things and life events that our children need for faith building, family building and allows them to be present in their  own lives. What they will believe and own as theirs . Life is tough, thats a fact so our children need a foundation of their mom and dad to stand in the storm and be comfortable with their own awareness in Christ Jesus. Hope is abounding alway’s. Nothing is ever dire enough, no mistake is ever bigger enough that we as moms and dads cannot love our children through it.

Remember mom and dads are part of what I call a family trinity. Mom, Jesus and dad so we will love and lead them no matter what:)

 

God Bless You All ,

Danny

Sactus Real  Lead Me.

Where To Start? Why Not Now? Tonights the Night .

12 Tuesday Aug 2014

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With all of my medical treatment that I have received, the one constant that I have found is dedication to service of all my medical staff.. I see Jesus everywhere.  God has given me so much, I look at my moms treatment that she received while she battled Cancer, COPD and emphysema. She had an incredible team of doctors and had treatment at Mt Auburn Hospital in Cambridge With Dr. S at the helm. A fantastic human being also by the way he is  a brain cancer survivor too.

We  God’s children really need to be thankful for what we all have, starting with the love of God, The sacrafice of his son, our savior Jesus Christ for everything.  A lot of us irregardless to what we have as Blessing’s in our own lives feel that we lack something that we may not have. A new car? a vacation, a boat the 50 pairs of shoes, whatever. There are times we don’t know what we really want. Their is a void in our lives and the little kid inside us needs to be pacified. Anyways thinking that the next thing that we get will make us complete.  I am not pointing fingers I too have found myself wanting and acquiring things at different times of my life fortunately for me, I had children and felt my responsibility to care for their needs first. So, I put those things  that I wanted but could not have into the catagory of a sacrafice. I have to be quite frank and say this too, If I had been given great financial success at that time,  I might have ruined my family by giving all. My kids would not be the same today for sure. God knows me,oh so well.  Looking back in time these wants and desires for stupid little things were rediculous. For what? God was very good to me you see , I worked really hard for every penny that we had and  God blessed me with a beautiful wife with 4 awesome kids and an angel in Heaven, things were tight but comfortable because my wife worked harder than me, ( still does ) She worked the opposite shift than me so that she could raise her kids and to be honest if we needed to pay day care we  would not have been able to afford  that either. The other important factor in our marriage was/ is that we were not alone in it. I can be a bone head 🙂 Jesus is standing between us it is our family trinity, My wife, God and Me. My wife is very generous to help others when a need arises  but is a very cautious person with any asset that we may have. She adds water to the hand soap bottle etc. Not cheap, but very careful.Thats where our balance with finances lays, God put us together for that reason as well.  If she had not been like that fiscally all of our marriage then this situation  namely cancer here would have been impossible to cope with financially.  God will provide for each one of us according to our needs and then we need to be good stewards with our  gifts that he gives us. My children did not have designer stuff and who cares, they lived as we lived, pretty good 🙂 My kids took their first plane flight with my wife and I when my son I think was 18 and the other 3 kids the yougest may have been 10. We went to Disney. That was 9 years ago now. By, the way it was my wife and my first plane trip in  19 years at that point since our honeymoon and we have not set foot on another plane ever since our Florida trip. You have to live within your means. We do not feel like victims.  Its just life. If God wanted us to do these things he would open the door for us to do them, supply us with the funds etc. I am happy just being. Travel has never been a big thing to me. Home is just fine usually, I loved working in my yard. etc,when I was capable of it . I would work like a bear, in concert with God, nature,  music, my family, kids, friends and puppies:) I loved being outside just moving and doing. It is a beautiful life, not a perfect life but it is our life so thankyou God for my Blessing’s 🙂 Perfection will come when I am eventually called to God, that is my supreme Desire to meet my God when I am old 🙂 I believe that life here  is a school where we learn and loose all of our rough edges.That we are able to see the  sunrise through the storm and see Christ in everyone and truely  forgive one another. None of us is perfect so we should not be kicking sand up in the air like kids in a school yard. It is wasted emotional energy and hurtful.It destroys us and the person who we are unleashing ourselves onto.

As far as travel goes…

I tell my wife some day when my Spirit leaves my body I will fly over Hawaii and get a look .lol

Their is a Christian money man that is on Fox  news every know and again. Years ago he was on the radio and he would help people with financial issues based on biblical values. His name is David Ramsey.   He motto is  live like no one today so you can live like no one tomorrow. I loved that and it resonnated with myself and my wife. My kids have grown up everyone of them has had to work very hard . And, why shouldn’t they? They are better people for it and are making their liitle money boo boo’s at a young age before their out on their own making huge one’s.  When you owe money to everyone you are powerless and are schackled. In the bible you are a slave to a debtor.  If not for intersections and opportunities to learn lessons like those of Mr. Ramsey, my parents and granparents In our lives  when the Cancer diagnosis hit here  it would have been curtains to us financially if we were mired in endless debt. We had some debt obviously that comes with regular life.  We also were Blessed to have had the Miracle of the fundraiser to assist us, so many beautiful people giving us help quietly. One of our beautiful friends a couple said they were called by God to help us it was a very humbling situation, It was overwhelming to us . But, God was behind it and we understood that 100% by out reach that we have been called to do  ourselves in the past. When God calls, we need to answer!

I never know where these writing will go, but my next writing I do know will be about my first vision that I had around 5 years ago. It will be explained in exact detail as I had told my priest Father R during my confession aand Spititual counceling appt so long ago . It is as vivid in my mind today as when I had it this Blessed event. It is a message for all of us really. Beautiful. Father R had said back at that time to just be sure when you tell this that people are ready and that we are all in different Spiritual places. I understood that when he spoke those words just as I understand those words in this moment. The difference today is that ,  I do have an ubandance of peace today that it’s time and that it is okay. So I will be out shortly with this account.

God Bless You !

Danny 

Lets unite as 1 the way God wants us too, Lets pray for this world and pray for peace and brotherhood. Amen.

So lets start tonight !!  Enjoy the Video below. Its all about love.

Turn it up !!

Toby mac City on our knee’s

a break away……. with heavy lifting :)

10 Sunday Aug 2014

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Hello everyone , I am back from a 1 week getaway. The opportunity arose for my wife and a couple of my kids to get away so,  off we went. Where we went did not have internet access. It was a cabin on a lake in NH. Very simple ,quaint and peaceful.

It was great and eventually all my children were there together with us for a day. It is what life is all about. 🙂

This experience though was a quick reminder of the fact that like I had written not too long ago in my blog we take our minds, worries,doubts etc with us. I had a lot of time to think. And the devil loves to discourage us all.  That is why prayer and remaining positive are so important. I went with my bible, book of prayers for every need, my rosary and they did have a dvd for our use so my Divine Mercy Chaplet was with me too.

I am doing well but while I was out and about during my vacation  I would stop for bench breaks as my wife and kids were in and out of shops, taking pictures etc. As I sat there in this beautiful environment with the smells, sights and surroundings. It seemed like everyone  around me looked so normal and I felt so handicapped, like I have found and said before life for all of us can be a minute by minute struggle. Fortunately, I am pretty much at peace  by the grace of God with my situation but we all have these moments. And, that’s okay because that is how life is. I was talking to a young man today as a matter of fact that has a lot of pressure on him. I think he is around 19 or 20. All kinds of fears,doubts and insecurities about what to do and how he is going to get where he wants to go.  A very understandable situation given his age. I expressed to him that he needs to keep  himself in conversation with God, he knows his future. You need to know him and trust I said.. You see it is a life intersection that he currently finds himself in. I am 52 and I am currently at another transitional intersection. I told this young man like me It requires him to stay on course and to try to ” live right” as my papa F would say. If we follow God’s commandments and pray we will come out the other side of our dilema with God’s answer. God always wants the very best for us all but we need to put our effort into the process. I assured him that it would fine, and you know what? he belived me. You see, I do not have the physical ability to do heavy lifting and thats okay. Gods going to use me where I am at in order to help this young man and lift him up on his way through life. At least in this moment. God’s doing all of the heavy lifting. According to our personal psalms #139 ,we spoke today so God knew we would be there at that very point in time 🙂 It is a beautiful thing.  Pretty Cool.  By the way while I was helping him, God healed me and I had a corrected state of mind it felt normal once again. It is in giving that we truely receive.

 

God Bless you.

Switchfoot Dare You To Run.

Group 1 Crew Walking on the Stars