I had a busy and beautiful weekend. As I mentioned yesterday briefly my wife and I attended a fundraiser to support a beautiful family that we know. You know when you attend these fundraisers you anticipate the possibility that the mood could be a little sad.   BUT ,

That was not the case, The Holy Spirit of God was present and our friends Paul and Linda are living Victory through God. You see their strength is witnessing to others how you face your life difficulties. Their was so much joy there and brotherly love.

We all need to get up everyday and chose victory , pray and stay centered on the important aspects of life. Faith, family, friends and making the human connection.

You see, Paul’s illness is not the life story that he is choosing as he life’s script. God’s with him , his wife Linda and family so Paul is seeing Victory through God on this cancer diagnosis and is not living his prognosis. Paul started I believe round 4 of his treatment on this past Monday please say a prayer for him that this cancer will be destroyed so he can get back to doing what he has always done to serve others . 🙂

Part two of my weekend was Sunday evening . I was invited a few weeks ago to speak about my life’s journey with this cancer diagnosis that I received  2 years and 8 months ago. All week long my stomach would get a little upset at the thought of how it would go. It was a witness for the Cursillo community and it was a 4 day talk. Well, the more I prayed the more of the peace of Christ settled upon me and when I attended Paul’s fundraiser the night before I was due to speak to this group and I thought to myself my witness for God will have the same impact on the church group as Paul’s beautiful and positive result had on me. So, my wife and I’ s attendance and  supporting our friends that we love God gave me the final measure of courage that I needed for my witness at St. Michael’s in North Andover.

MY wife and I arrived early to St. Michael’s church and sat. We had never  been there before so we made our three wishes. Both my wife and I were raised that when you enter a church that you never have been in before that  you can make 3 wishes. It is kind of a fun thing. 🙂

The church is very beautiful.We attended the 6 o’clock pm mass and it was beautiful the priest who celebrated the mass was very good. The Homily was based off of the reading which pretained to all Souls day where we remember all those that have gone before us. Saturday was all Saints Day which celebrates all of the Saints of our church.We are All Saints in training I hope 🙂 lol

Mass ended and it was time to witness my journey and all fear was gone. My prayers at mass were answered. Peace was flowing like a river. The people who were there were believers and every face was beautiful. If made speaking about God and his love for us so effortless.

During the time leading up to this witness I could not put pen to paper on what to say. It was a life witness not a speech so I prayed and knew that my heart was sincere on the fact that all glory of my life and story belongs to GOD. I knew that God through the Holy Spirit would give me the words that were needed so that anyone who was there would hear what they needed to hear during my witness.

So, it boils down to two points.

By supporting a friend and giving of self, I received . I was elevated by the Love Saturday night. So again in giving we do receive. Amen.

Secondly , because God’s with us every moment and the Holy Spirit is live from Heaven that we are called to prayer and do not need a script for what we say or do. We simply need to pray and retain the knowledge of God and he will speak what needs to be said or expressed.

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God Bless You,

Danny