Monthly Archives: May 2015

Time keeps slipping into the future

29 Friday May 2015

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well, its been about a week since my last blog. Life continues to be a mix of different life changes going on here at the homestead. All good fortunately at this moment.

My daughters coming wedding is stirring up different dad emotions. I am so happy for she and Chris. Janet and I as well as the other kids here are adjusting our emotions and mindsets daily. It is a beautiful moment in time where my family of 6 will grow by 4 with the marriage and Chris’s family.

http://www.cbn.com/…/promises_marriage.asp…

Christian Broadcasting Network

By J. Steven Lang The love of husband and wife is, at its best, a hint of the deeper love between a human being and God.

I have continued to pray for and talk to others who are dealing with their own daily struggles with various illnesses. I have been throwing myself out of the house as much as I am physically capable of and when I am home, I will myself off the chair to wash the floor, do laundry etc to help out the family. They are all working and running around and I hate see my wife working constantly.

Life is so good despite our struggles.

I still stuggle with walking a bit since the track incidence so i am facing it head first still and confronting my fear of falling. its been harder on me than my cancer diagnosis has been.

its a combination of my human fear and a spiritual attack upon me.

 And, it will not prevail over me. ! I am in a battle that Jesus has already won. You are too. 🙂

I was in my car going to my dads this week and the music was touching me so much. I felt so good, I felt young and the memories of my childhoods raced back to greet me. How bitter sweet taking into the account of the ones that are no longer here with me physically.

Plus driving makes me feel normal. I am no longer restricted.

In regards to this next  songs  they came to me while I was sitting here writing and I believe these songs about love and life can also very easily relate to our lives and our journeys. On the days when we just don’t feel like getting up to greet the day.

Music is healing. It is inpired mostly by the Spirit of God. Some of it  is not and I stay away from the dark music.

i have no white flags for cancer or anything else.. Neither should you .

and lastly we need to guard our words to one another. Words can kill anothers Spirit and they also kills ours too.

Love yourself and you will love everyone else too. it begins within us all . Amen.

Bring joy, spread love, sow seeds of joy and faith. Everyone is worthy of this love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtkTINuD0JA

God Bless You,

Danny

Bulletin

22 Friday May 2015

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This weekly bulletin is from my parish. It is done so beautifully. You can also see all the ministry work that is taking place here.

Note on page 3 the healing soaking prayer times where the sick can be prayed for. St. Josephs hasa powerful healing ministry ordained by God.

Click to access 2015-05-24.pdf

In countless ways we are called to be  our………

brothers  keeper !

God Bless You.

Danny

I Believe

21 Thursday May 2015

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Hi All ! 🙂

Its been a little while since my last blog entry I know, I have been quiet in the moment allowing life to carry me through a very refective time. My family is going through a beautiful time as we prepare for our eldest daughters wedding. My son too is beginning to move forward to find his own place to live in as well. So, it will be an adjustment to see them leave for sure. But, thats what good parenting does it set their children up with faith, knowledge of God and the belief that they can do it! Plus, I still have two at home!  LOL

For my daughter Stacy and her Chris 🙂 Jesus Christ will greet them on that alter that day and Stacy , Jesus and Chris will begin their own family trinity that day ! Amen.

I have been talking to so many people during this time. Many are struggling with illness and family situations. We all have them don’t we. Thats okay. Fear not just love those family and friends through it.

Love begins within you. If you are in Christ then,  the The Holy Spirit will enable us to speak and do the right thing .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k83w9cGTFZQ

Well,my daughter gets wed at the end of the June the day before my wife and I 29th wedding anniversary and I will tell you there were many a moment over the past three years that I was not sure that I would be there to witness this beautiful moment . Thats the reality of the cancer that I have fought. I have prayed to God that I would be here and had also accepted that I may be there in Spirit only. So, you can only imagine how grateful I am to be walking that isle with her. My daughter is going to walk the church isle with me a number of times before so that I will feel comfortable whereas my walk is far from perfect.

This next link is just amazing please enjoy. Believe that all will be well. Amen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkPlzZca5-Y

With Love,

God Bless You All !

Danny

Appreciating the smallest of things.

14 Thursday May 2015

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I have been led to slow down the blog writing. I felt that it was best for this blog and believe God wanted it to be a more reflective time for me.

During this slow down, I have reflected on so much that has transpired over the last three or so years. So much water has gone under the bridge I have lost a lot of the people that I have prayed for. But having said that I am in contact with a number of them that are healed or are simply living their lives with their illness.

I could have been a victim of this cancer but God gave me a strong faith. Most of my troubles since I got cancer were caused by my impatience and pig headed attitude.

Happiness is elusive if we are not content with the blessings that we have.

Having it all is not something that anyone of us can truely find here in this life. My feeling and understanding of life is this. Accepting our plights and the things that occur in our lives and acknowledging them allows us the power over how they can or will affect us. It is our choice to be a victim or victorious.

Everyday, I spend a great deal of energy on rebuilding my life. In the last few days I has begun the process of loving who I am now. When I look at my life I am trying to be less harsh on myself.

I cannot help my mobility issues any more that I could have prevented the brain cancer.

I should be 100 percent happy having my life just as it is. Imperfect yet blessed by the breath in my body and my brain and my minds ability to function at such a high level given the cancer, chemo and radiation treatment that I have received.

I was out yesterday doing a brief errand that my dad asked me to do. The 1st such request in more than three years. As I walked down the isle of that store I saw a few people that knew me. One stopped about 75 feet ahead of me  and looked at me as I approached like she was seeing a ghost. She looked dazed and confused. Finally, her name came into my mind and I said hello Jackie, how are you? and give me a hug. Her eyes filled with tears she said how are you? I said good and smiled. I then said I am still in therapy and it has been a long journey. She went on to tell me that a girl Kelley that we both had known about 3 years ago had become ill with brain cancer and she did not make it. I felt very badly that I had not known. I walked towards the register with my dad’s item and ran into yet another man that I have not seen for 3 or more years. He engaged me in conversation and he looked at me and said man, your a Miracle. He said I asked one of the guys that I used work with what ever happened to Dan?  They assumed that you succumbed to the disease as well. So, my dad’s request for me pick up an item in the store was ordered as far as I am concerned by Heaven for a bigger purpose to witness to others at a core level. I am still here, I am still struggling physically but I feel so alive. God has his ways and his reasons. I loved seeing these people they brought my old life forward to meet my life today.

I was grateful to find out about Kelleys passing  because I could now pray for her and her family. Perhaps that was the other reason for my being there yesterday. God knows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8PLBQrzWQ8

That’s it, please remember Paul S. in your prayers as he is in on his pilgrimage to find a cure for his cancer. (Medjugorje)

Also, please remember Kelley and her family whereas she passed from her brain cancer.

God Bless You,

Danny

Medjugorje Miracles and the two different camps.

11 Monday May 2015

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Medjugore miracles.

Our dear family friend P. S. embarked yesterday on a pilgramage to Medjugorje with his brother Steve. P has been fighting his battle with pancreatic cancer.

So, yesterday he kissed his wife and kids good bye to make his long journey to the small town in Western Bosnia.

God is with them and faith has lead them their for a healing from God.

http://www.medjugorje.com/medjugorje/signs-and-miracles.html

http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Medjugorje_Miracles

You know there are two different camps out there…

Those who believe and those who don’t.

Yesterday I had heard about Pauls departure seeking a healing with his brother all the way to Bosnia and thought what a beautiful journey that he has taken on. It is physically challenging  for him for sure given his treatment etc but he is living his Victory despite his illness. Amen.

The other camp. When my wife got word of their departure a conversation began with a few in the group that we were with. They began asking questions and we responded. their were funny eyes being made, and not alot of understanding. Their faith as a family is not strong so I understood their thinking that it was weird.

My feeling is this… They have a right to their opinion and it does not bother me. I also know that they look at me and cannot figure me out. They do not know how I can live happily when I was given a terminal diagnosis 3 years ago. I am here to hopefully open their eyes up to God reality.

Well, Paul and I share one very important thing God and Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Something my other friends do not comprehend in this moment. I pray that someday they will because we all need him ! Amen. Pauls faith has called him to believe in a healing and he was called to Bosnia in this moment Amen.

For Pauls Miracle and his brothers Steves desires for his brothers needs to be met.

Kari Jobe The more I Seek You.

For his wife L and their three children.

Sanctus Real.

God Bless You,

Danny

Dad and the breakfast sandwich.

08 Friday May 2015

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For my neice who was wed in January and my daughter who is due to wed this summer. They both have awesome moms 🙂

I have mentioned my dad  many times on this blog and I have to say I am very blessed to have him.

He is a very strong soft spoken man. He minds his business but is there for myself or any of his family members regardless of the generation.

MY dad is 87 now. My cancer has had some good upsides too. It slowed me down so that I could see even more clearly the important things in my life. You see, my parents were  always very good . They never demanded anything of their children  after we were married. As my mom would say do what you need to do in terms of the holidays etc meaning that they were not going stress us ( their children) out to be there at their home every holiday. My parents would just say no problem, we are here. It was precisely for that easy going and welcoming nature that all 5 of their children and 13 grand children converged on their home on all Holiday’s and  most Sundays for dinners and or a cook out. My parents bought a new swing set, a kiddie pool, kiddie chairs , balloons and balls. My brother even bought a battery powered jeep for the kids to drive in the yard 🙂 So cute. We all brought our kids cozy coupes with us too. It was so cute to see them all in action.

As this Mothers Day approached I was thinking of my mom in the small moments. My mother was at peace in the midst of the storm. Even as my dad laughed and played with the kids on those beautiful busy family days. My mom would gently talk to her children and grand children and even as the kids were running eachother over with their cozy coupes and battery operated jeep. She calmly made up her potted plant arangements useing her back stoop as her workbench.

My parents are a major fact of why I combat my lifes issues so well. My moms death is coming up to its two year anniversary shortly. She remains very much alive in all of here children and my dads heart and memory. Amen.

This past week I went to see my dad. I recently introduced him to Dunkin Donuts breakfast sandwiches 🙂 I had not had one for years myself but I wanted to treat him with breakfast so, it went like this….

Danny pulled into my dads driveway at o’9:00 military time in my geloppy and my dad came right out he had been standing look out LOL . He at age 87 ran down the steps to assist his 53 year old son out of the car. He grabbed the bag from dunks first!  I will  have you know ! 🙂

So, in we went to my dad house and he  had the table set with paper plates and 1 peice of paper towel each. He made me sit and then got his Kurig going.

I explained what I had gotten and he said oh, I never had one. Well, he thoroughly enjoyed it and I even got him for .75 cents a small thing of their tator tots. While he was eating them he stopped eating and said hum they are suprisingly good. 🙂

In that quiet moment just being with my dad my mom was brought up. As, I scanned the diningroom pictures of my mom and dad throughout the many years were loving placed by my dad. He said it will be two years in August. I said i know as his eyes filled with tears. I said dad, mom is no longer in pain and his fully healed by Christ and she is with us now and always.

For our moms Happy Mothers Day,  🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw6uwujZ0dA

God Bless You All.

Danny.

Also please pray for The Family of Tim Daly. Tim went to the Lord after a long battle with ALS. Jim is no longer a prisoner of his body. Amen. Please keep them in your prayers this Mothers Day.

Get Ready For Your Miracle

07 Thursday May 2015

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I came upon this lovely lady and she is walking a similar road called Glio she too has a blog to help others. She is such a witness!

http://www.cherylbroyles-gbm.com/

She is a miracle, and, it is the time of miracles for sure. God’s got it, and always has!

 

Celebrate each day !

God Bless You,

Danny

 

Mothers Day :)

05 Tuesday May 2015

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Fr. Ron posted: “Dear Parishioners, This weekend we celebrate Mother’s Day. If there are two words that can describe mothers, it is “selfless giving.” They are truly a reflection of the love of the Lord. I came across some of the following that you might enjoy reading; S”

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Pastor’s Reflection for May 10, 2015

by Fr. Ron

Dear Parishioners,

This weekend we celebrate Mother’s Day. If there are two words that can describe mothers, it is “selfless giving.” They are truly a reflection of the love of the Lord. I came across some of the following that you might enjoy reading;

Some Typical Motherly Advice 

  • “Because I am your mother that’s why”
  • I hope that when you grow up, you have kids “just like you!”
  • “Because I said so”
  • “Just wait until your father gets home.”
  • “Bored! How can you be bored? I was never bored at your age!”
  • “Never lie, cheat or steal.”
  • “I slave for hours over a hot stove and this is the thanks I get?”
  • “Honestly… You’d lose your head if it wasn’t screwed on!”
  • “I’ve got eyes in the back of my head, that how.”
  • “Don’t put that in your mouth, you don’t know where it’s been!”

Mothers Day CoverInspirational Mother’s Day Quotes

  • “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.”
  • “Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
  • “By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • “That best academy, a mother’s knee.” – James Russell Lowell
  • “Making a decision to have a child– it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” – Elizabeth Stone
  • “A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” – Tenneva Jordan.

Funny Mother Jokes

  • For weeks a six year old lad kept telling his first-grade teacher about the baby brother or sister that was expected at his house. One day the mother allowed the boy to feel the movements of the unborn child. The six year old was obviously impressed, but made no comment. Furthermore, he stopped telling his teacher about the impending event. The teacher finally sat the boy on her lap and said, “Tommy, whatever has become of that baby brother or sister you were expecting at home?” Tommy burst into tears and confessed, “I think Mommy ate it!”
  • Mother to daughter advice: Cook a man a fish and you feed him for a day. But teach a man to fish and you get rid of him for the whole weekend.
  • The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she’d have children if she had it to do over again. “Yes,” she replied. “But not the same ones.”

May Jesus continue to shepherd you in all of your needs.

God love you,

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Strength and Courage With A Smile

01 Friday May 2015

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One observation that I would like to focus on today is that  it never ceases to amaze me of how no matter what a human being is experiencing in this life we are  in most cases still able to smile and see the joy in this life. Gods amazing gift to us all!

Whenever I go to Dana Farber for my appointments I walk through the crowd of patients many whom are very ill. But, they always respond to my conversation with a smile and converse with me about things like weather, wait time etc. They aren’t negative or acting depressed. Being a cancer patient or any person suffering from any illness, I have found are grateful to be in the moment that we are in because Life is a beautiful thing. We come to accept our plights because that is what we need to do. It’s the healthy option. For instance when I was dianosed with terminal cancer three years ago, I needed to choose how I would live this diagnosis. I do not want to ruin my families life with drama and dread. I thought about the serenity prayer today as I went out for one item bananas 🙂 lol. I needed them! 🙂  And at both stores I parked  and walked all the way into find that they were fresh out of them. I was pooped by the time I found a package with 3 bananas  inside, victory! 🙂

Then I stood in the express line for 20 minutes to buy 3 pretty ripe bananas . Omg . I came home and had to climb the staircase from the garage to the main floor of my home. I made it and plopped down onto my docking station. lol

I had a bumpy day emotionally on Thursday I had a lot of alone time so I had myself a little pitty party. As good as I feel or as optimistic as I generally am.

I still say , I cannot believe this is my life.

God is our one constant he is with us!!!

I spoke to all my siblings yesterday at one point or the other and dumped out a lot of my personal thoughts. I had worked on yesterday’s blog for a few,days before actually posting it. I was personally drained from the feelings and emotions that went with that phone conversation.

BY the way if you could say a prayer for J today she has another infusion  which maker her feel even sicker.

Also, Please Pray for Paul my friend who is meeting today for his scan results he is battling pancreatic cancer. He is an awesome man of God. Amen.

One of the things I told my family last night was this,

Yes, I am grateful to be alive in this moment. I am currently a Miracle , but it is not always easy being a Miracle.

I am a different me all together to what I was. In some cases I am the better for the cancer in others I am not.

I think that it is another stage of acceptance that I am now aware of. A new threshold of understanding . I look in the mirror and have a different understanding of what I am. I look okay but my body still does not operate properly. It’s like my mind is trapped in my body.

I will work through this in time. I need to allow this process of acceptance to work its way through me naturally. The way God wants us to. We need to hand our worries, pains and suffering off to God and allow him to strengthen us.

The final piece that has effected me is that I know of at least three young people of families I know who are dealing with their children’s suicides. Beautiful family, beautiful kids. I have found it so sad. I need to pray on this subject and write.

I have not heard this song for years but it is beautiful. GOD is always with us even in the darkness of times

I again, I needed to be honest as I sit here and say I just cannot imagine a life without God, Faith and fellowship with others.

God Bless You. And have a beautiful weekend. For any young ones making their First Holy Communion. God Bless You.

Danny

Healing in so many ways.

01 Friday May 2015

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I spoke to someone very dear to me today who is undergoing treatment for aggressive cancer and we got talking and the discussion of a family situation spilled out of her.

There was all this pain for a situation that she could not do anything about. This situation began decades ago. A situation born out of love that has been a problem because of one person.

I was first of all  honored that she shared with me but I also felt very badly that she has allowed herself to be held ransom for a incredibly beautiful act of love , one that many would not have done for their sibling.

I said to them, did you do it for love? They replied yes.

I said would you do it again ? They tearfully said yes . This happened all on the phone and I thought of one song all the while.

It seems like for the last four or so years I have talked to so many people who have been fighting cancer and other illnesses and family or friend crap starts up that they just cannot pacify. Well, I once again sat here in my chair and said these words.

God calls us to forgive each other our trespasses. But, that’s it.

Once you try to rectify the situation whatever  that situation is,  then we have fulfilled our requirement. If the other person is not in the right place to figurte it out then let that situation go. The issue is theirs.

This person that i am speaking of is fighting aggressive cancer and doing well praise God but still pines for something that may not be attainable. It’s life. That may sound harsh but it’s the reality. The person who has come against them is a very unhappy person for sure.

I said to them before I hung up. To look up this song. How true are theses words. 

I feel bad that people who are fighting for their lives are burdened by crap and nonsense.

People , do not give your emotions away unless you are sure the person will handle them with care.

God Bless Them. Please say a prayer for them God knows who they are.

Danny