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The plain fact of the matter

01 Wednesday Apr 2015

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The first thing I would like to say is sorry. A friend told me that my blog experienced a loss of some of the attached video files. I have no idea why. I spent about 5 hours restoring the blog entrees so that  they function as I intended them to do. Just another challenge. 🙂

I will go further back into the blog all 270 or so and make sure that they all are in working order.

This blog needs to function as God intended it to in order to help others.

 

The plain truth of the matter about my personal life is this. I am a man in the dessert of my life at this moment and I am living this life  challenge to the best of my ability.

I know God’s awesome power, I am living it. Up until 5 years ago you could ask everyone that knows me that  I was the fun creative guy in the crowd who was just not very serious.

5 years ago God took my life into a different rhelm one that I never knew existed. Just as I was starting to try to figure out that whole experience my business slowed down and I now was facing economic changes in my personal life. After these two life events took aim and attacked my life , my mother fell gravely ill in the Spring of 2011. We spent everyday at my mom’s bedside until she went home the day before Thanksgiving of that same year. In the meantime the Spring of 2012 brought me terminal brain cancer. Since that diagnosis God again moved in my life and has made incredible things happen to me. My mom went to the Lord Aug, 2013 and even given my faith it hurt like heck and still does.

The next piece to my life journey is this blog. This blog is my third form of Spiritual writing that I have been called to do. I have to state again for the record that I am no writer. It is not a natural process for me. I am not an open book type of person but I have become one by God’s design. At one point I began to write that I needed to die to self. I have come to understand exactly what that means as I spilled my life out in my different writing endeavors.

I also know that this is my calling in this moment. I feel a sense of peace in my soul that this is my job for God. I am to witness my journey and his Victory in my life defeating an evil that attacked me to silence my voice.

I know that this is my truth. The other part of me Danny the average regular guy has struggled to keep up with all of these monumental life changes. It still seams like fantasy Island at times. I am being completely honest with you.

I needed the week away from this blog to just stop the process. I have spent time just being. I have spent a lot of time sitting before the Lord in the chapel.

It was beautiful but it is work keeping silent and stopping my mind from wandering. Silence also makes you take on the issues in your heart and mind very honestly. It is a tough and necessary process though. Life is easy when you drown out everything with work, noise, tv and music.

God does not call us to be constantly distracted , he wants our attention. He wants a conversation with us.

In the chapel I feel so peaceful. God is present. I opened my heart up to God in a very special way last Monday while in the chapel and felt a warmth surround me like I was being hugged it was breathtaking.

Moments like that are the reason that I believe that I am not crazy but I  am human who is living an Spiritual journey thus I cannot fully comprehend everything that was and is taking place.

Charlotte Church Finding My Own Way.

God Bless You,

Danny

The Name Of Jesus

22 Sunday Mar 2015

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I will be taking up to a week off from my daily blog. During this Season of Lent I have been so busy with life stuff and this blog that I have found myself a bit strapped for time. My focus for prayer time has been very strained.

I am at a life intersection where I need to stop the daily process and sit with God in prayer. I can not serve God or others if I don’ t stop talking, and  typing for a period of time.

I have been on a bit of a personal high with myself being cancer free, the dawn of a new Spring Season and getting my license back. I have been very distracted  by the fruits of this life.

But I have learned through life experience  that I cannot afford to be too invested in this life. I believe that for us to be successful in anything that we need do that we need to stay in balance. For me my faith in God is the ballast that keeps me stable through all of this life’s situation.

So, it’s time to be still and know that I now need to listen for his guidance.

 

Aaron Shust – The Name of Jesus

 

God Bless,

Danny

POPE FRANCIS

20 Friday Mar 2015

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Tell the world of his love

Pope Francis thoughts of the Blessed Mother

Pope Francis  Do not close the doors to the church who are seeking help

A Man on mission.

Pope Francis / Saint Joseph

St. Joseph sung by Angelina

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=st+joseph+sung+by+angelina

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=EEgsUY7lUjwPope Francis 

God Bless You,

Danny

THE BEAUTY OF NEW ENGLAND

19 Thursday Mar 2015

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We are all born of our parents by the miracle of God’s design of creation. I am sitting here today with Spring outside and I am just  so enamored by its beauty

I was thinking about the fact that it is no coincidence as to where we are born and live. God predestined that for us before our birth that fact is stated in Psalm # 139.

Our lives are mysteries to us  but they are not a mystery to God.

I love being a New Englander. The snow never bothered me until I became handicapped and have been reminded to be careful not to fall on the ice because if I hurt my right arm I can not take care of myself.

I love that I again live here. Since my illness almost took my life I am very cognizant of Everything around me like I have New eyes looking out, like a new sense of smell and a crisper ear to hear nature. I have been in essence a prisioner in my own home. The one thing I counted on was to watch the Seasons Change with anticipation of it and then projecting forward to the next season to see what would come.

NEW ENGLAND IN THE SPRING

When I was diagnosed with terminal cancer nearly 3 years ago, I projected my self towards the different Seasons that were coming birthdays and anniversaries. Projecting gave me a reason to fight for life. None of us knows what tomorrow will bring including me. I have my next scan the end of. April. 🙂

Okay, the bottom line is this I look at each day and each opportunity to experience the moments of the day in a new way. To stop and look at the  beauty surrounding me , the smells,sights, and sounds of nature.

I came by this beautiful video of New England and it still does not capture its full beauty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2n-_FZhb3o

Enjoy, and God Bless You All,

Danny

Like I have said my mother and mother Inlaw,really loved this singer. I find great comfort of remembering these things when I write.

Barry Manilow

TOMORROW IS SPRING 🙂

Sam the mailman and the saint bernard.

18 Wednesday Mar 2015

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Times have changed so much. When I was a young boy my neighborhood had the nicest mailman. Everyone knew him and the kids and dogs  thought he was great.

Sam would drive and walk his mail route. He used to take a couple of kids on his lunch break with their parents approval for a hot dog and ice cream. Then we would ride around in his US postal jeep and watch him deliver the mail.

Sam was married and did not have children. He was kind and always had dog cookies for the dogs on his route. He was giving out cookies to the dogs  even through the mail slots. I remember he was missing the top part of his index finger. He told me that a dog thought it was a cookie. Lol

There was a huge saint Bernard dog that was so excited to see him and the mail truck on the street so he would bark, run off his porch to see Sam and  he would climb into the jeep for a ride. Sam would laugh and give him cookies. On our way back out of the neighborhood he would stop and get the dog out and back on his porch. Looking back 99 percent of the things that Sam did 46 years ago would never be allowed now. But it was awesome. Sam also let us chew his green apple gum that he had. 🙂

This is the type of dog,full grown of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aWlxImaiQI

I am grateful for the memory of this kind man. He listened to each kid that took a ride in his jeep or walked the route with him. He was a great role model for each kid that he took along for a short while on his route. We were not invisible to him. When we went to the dairy bar down the street for the hotdog,the man behind the counter would say hello Sam, who’s your friend today. So nice. 🙂

This scripture was from my bible ap. I could not have picked a better reading for this wonderful man. He did not have children of his own so he helped to raise others. What a great man. God Bless Him. 🙂

13 Who is there among you who is wise and intelligent? Then let him by his noble living show forth his [good] works with the [unobtrusive] humility [which is the proper attribute] of true wisdom.

It was an innocent time when I grew up where families were generally large and we ran all over the neighborhood and played. Our mothers  and fathers  had to get a check in call if we at a friend’s house. The parents knew each other and called each other as well. It was a great time where we as young children seemed somehow safer to move around.

I believe each one of us is the sum total of our life experiences. I believe that the kindness that I learned from my family and people like Sam the mailman equipped me with an awareness and need to let people know that they matter. In even the smallest way.

Life is beautiful and the people that we are encountering during our day should be validated. I don’t care if it is a check out person at the store, the person you hold the door for or the person on the bus. Everyone is lifted up just by being recognized. Just the fact that someone cared enough to share a kind word just means so much

What is there in life that is more important then to bless another person. To be Jesus to a young one on the road trying to find their way.

This song is for Sam who I am sure went to God many years ago.

God Bless You,

Danny

Springing Forward in the sunshine laughing all the way:)

09 Monday Mar 2015

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The weather is changing, the days are longer and life is so beautiful so why not laugh. Just laugh and let the Spirit of joy lighten your heart and mind. Amen.

Just for laughs.

Repeat after me.

Cute Parody of frozen.

Have a fun and beautiful day!

Blessings,

Danny

Living Vibrantly And Being Reminded

21 Friday Nov 2014

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I saw this amazing teaching of FR. Leo Clifford and it was so spot on with life and what awaits us when we are called to God. The link is down below.
The beauty of the pure love that God has for us is something that I know is bigger than we could ever imagine.
How do I know?
It’s quite easy for me to explain, I felt this love on a couple of different occasions in my life and the joy was more that I could handle. My heart exploded and I got a glimpse of what the love of God is.
God’s love supersedes our understanding . So many beautiful things that we experience in this life are beautiful. But none of my life’s experiences have come even close to that level of total love that I have felt in those brief encounters.
One of the times that this experience happened to me was during confession and spiritual direction a few years back. I was crying from the overwhelming joy of love that God poured through me. Fr. Said it was a gift to me from God on my journey to let me know he is pleased.
The bottom Line is this. Fr. Said it is a glimpse of what Heaven would be like with Jesus Christ/ God.
My response as I attempted to compose myself and sit up straight was, I cannot handle this love then.  Fr. R looked at me with a questioned look on his face . I just said it is too much for me to handle. Too much beauty.
I have said that I would always be honest about what I write here on this blog because it is not all me.Its happening to me and I am merely relaying my journey here.
God does not want me to experience one thing more here in this life than he does for you . We are all the same in his eyes. Ask, and you shall receive.
Why I had the feeling that I could not handle the love of Heaven at that time in confession has been thought about many times through prayer since the 1st event happened.
This is my opinion on this  matter,
I am a sinner in ways that I am sure that I am unaware of . When God calls me I will still be unworthy to be in his presence . I do believe we need to go to purgatory in order to be purified before we arrive in Heaven. I guess the amount of time we spend there will depend on how we lived our lives here.
Some may not believe that and that’s okay. I can only speak for myself. I know on my best day I am not worthy. I am not beating myself up I am just being truthful and honest. Amen.
Fr. Leo Clifford

We Wait For You (Shekinah Glory) & Lyrics (Shekinah is God.)

 

Psalm 42 versers 7-9
7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. 8 By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me– a prayer to the God of my life. 9 I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning,oppressed by the enemy?”

<< Psalms 42:6Psalm 42:7-9
This scripture in my opion said this,
The trials of this life roar at me I acknowledge that The Lord who is my rock is with me on this journey and guides me in the day as I toil. At night time when I have a worried mind he comforts me and soothes me with the music of his word. When we are at our weekest ( When we are tired) is when the evil decides I will get them upset and make them worry. We can’t sleep and are thinking God why aren’t you stopping him from this crap ?
Why must I be oppressed.
The answer in my opinion is this. pray,pray,pray talk from the heart and you will see the effect. Peace pours down through the mercy seat and we are washed by the healing blood of Christ. Nothing can bother you too much when we put ourselves in front of the one who created all. This is the world that we have as a result of sin. So, these challenges are part of of our daily journey.
God Bless You,
Danny

Just sittin here :) Thinking.

13 Saturday Sep 2014

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Just a quick blog, I am sitting here at home all by my onesies, and was thinking about my blog. I have had so many conversations over the last two years about documenting this journey. What I get now more than ever is just how much people are enjoying the witness of my journey and that of my family. Its causing my family to re-live certain events that were tramatic in that day and I guess this journey,of hearing it and reading about it in this manner will bring more closure and healing to us all.

My intent for this blog is very simple, I want to help even just one person. We are all the same to God precious. This blog is his victory story. To everything there is a purpose.

The byrds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_zXhD3vZ_g

When it comes down to it, by the grace of God all that we have in the life really is eachother, and that is really the most important thing anyway. Material stuff is really so unimportant. We need to celebrate and support oneanother. Amen.

Ben E. King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9kyGMvfZqo

Yesterday, Eye On The Sparrow, You Are I Am

09 Tuesday Sep 2014

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Hi All, I used these songs to end my day on Monday. I was lead to them after prayer and decided that they would be nice to share in this moment. Enjoy this beautiful Day. 🙂

 

Beautiful songs just enjoy. God is so good.

Yesterday:  by ,  Mary / Mary

Laren Hill and Tanya Blount

This song reminds me of a lovely women that went to the Lord . God Bless you . C

Mercy Me, You Are I Am

Matt Maher Lord I need you

 

God Bless You All.

Danny

Blessings

26 Tuesday Aug 2014

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I will not get into my day yesterday, in too much depth . Let me just say this. We are Blessed with so much. Through connections that only God can create. My story made its way through different health professionals and lay people prior to even starting this blog. It culminated with my being picked up at my home by a  new friend that I knew only by voice. C,  and she took me to Dana Farber because a very dear of friend of hers has been diagnosed with Glio Blastoma , brain cancer and she asked me to support her. My Dr. R, as God would have it is treating her/ my new friend as well. A is a very lovely lady with a beautiful family to support her.

God is connecting all the dots all the time. Connecting us all in a web of Mercy with relationship to oneanother.  When I was not with A today while she had her scan etc, I found myself just sitting there. I thought to myself what are you doing? I began to pray for her and every person that crossed my path. I asked God to heal them from Cancer and all these deseases.

Sometimes we feel powerless, blue and like life is a non stop stuggle but I will tell you one thing. We are all so powerful because of our prayers. God answers everyone one of them. Life is once again in control. We have hope.

The woman today, A. her daughter C, and friend C were so lovely, I had never met anyone of them in person prior to today. But that is God for you ! They were all wonderful. I even had the pleasure of speaking to A’s husband on the phone for quite a while. What a wonderful man.

So in closing keep looking up and look for the opportunities that God sends you. In my responding to a request to support another human being, I was the one who was truely Blessed.

God Bless You,

Danny

Laura Story  Blessings

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