15 Friday Aug 2014
Posted in God, lifes journey, love, motivational writing/speaking, Uncategorized
18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.
Father Leo Clifford
The philosophy of life
God Bless You, Danny
Kutlass Word Of God Speak
14 Thursday Aug 2014
Posted in Creator, faith, God, love, motivational writing/speaking
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.
14 Thursday Aug 2014
Posted in charity, Creator, God, hope, lifes journey, love, miracles, motivational writing/speaking, Uncategorized
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
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
12 Tuesday Aug 2014
Posted in charity, Creator, faith, God, hope, lifes journey, love, miracles, motivational writing/speaking, sacrafice, Uncategorized, wisdom
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
10 Sunday Aug 2014
Posted in faith, hope, love, motivational writing/speaking, Uncategorized
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
06 Wednesday Aug 2014
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As I mentioned in one of my posts , people are such Blessings in our lives, God gives us eachother as a gift. Yes, We do occasionally encounter someone who challenges us, or hurts us.
During my blog I will from time to time like to remember some people and stories of some very special people in my life that made me stop, look and think. Like my friend Esther Sullivan that I brought the newspaper too when I was a young boy they are part of the fabric of my life.
Why should anyone care to hear these stories, well I can answer that, it is because everyone of us has a Mr. or Mrs So and So that have touched us and made us who we are today. Perhaps my personal encounters that I have had will remind you of someone that has touched you and have made you who you are today 🙂
Jaci Velasquez Imagine Me Wiyhout You
03 Sunday Aug 2014
Posted in faith, hope, lifes journey, love, miracles, motivational writing/speaking, Uncategorized, wisdom
Hi , about three to four years ago, While writing, the Holy Spirit revealed to me a psalm, It is so comforting to me. I would like to share this with you now,
I was told through my writings that this is the bedrock of our faith from the human perspective. In other words, we all have our very own personal psalms. The one thing that we do have control over is how we react to our challenges and choices that we make while we live daily.
Read and meditate on each word, he knew that one day, I would be doing this blog he also knew that you would be here reading it, he knows everything. So God has predestined it all.
Enjoy, and God Bless 🙂
Danny
It is psalm #139
139 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.
7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.
13 For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.[a]
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.
Gateway Worship : Song based on Psalm #139
30 Wednesday Jul 2014
Posted in charity, faith, hope, lifes journey, love, motivational writing/speaking
I wanted to touch on in a small way today a subject that is really quite large. I will be sharing different peices of this story at various times. We have witnessed such a beautiful outpouring from so many people over the past 2 years .My/our family friend that was mentioned in my email regarding Lahey Clinic Found out about a momevent to have a fundraiser at my home for parish for my family when I was dianosed. She apparently called my friends from Arlington, who were trying to give this endeavor legs with my siblings and their families. My friend from work, designed very nice wristbands in the Home Depot colors that read prayers for Dan and they were made and sold to help raise funds. She got the home Depot organization involved with fundraisers and another store that knew of me jumped on board to help. Home Depot was very good to us at both staff and corporate levels. When I needed my bathrooms retrofitted with special equipment.The Occupational Therapist said that I needed these things in order to be safe. And, I did and still do. My brothers went in with my list to home depot with my HD card and 10% coupon that we had. and They returned back around two hours later to install all these items in my bathroom and the my 1st floor bath. I thanked my brothers and said please just leave the receipt in the dining room from Home Depot for Janet. My brother Steve got filled up and said when he went into the store he was not aware of where these Items were located when he spoke to one of the employees a manager left her station and personally walked the store retrieving the items that I required. Steve said thank you and approached the register and got in line . All of a sudden a manager spinted from a distant office and came over to my brother and said your all set. Tell Danny he’s in our prayers and let us know if there is anything else you can do for him.
My friend, you know from the text and phone call worked so hard and the fundraiser was held May 19, 2012. I remember my wife and I did not know about it until a short period before it happened. We were really embarrased to be honest, we were doers and not takers. But we did not realize what was staring us down at that time financially. To be honest life is still like that to a certain degree lots of uncertainty. We needed to surrender, show up and have a grateful heart. I am far from through with the writing and will continue with this topic shortly. It is emotional and beautiful at the same time. But to tell you honesty, I / we owe to so many of God’s people our friend, Pastor , his staff and the community of St. Jiosephs for being ever present in our lives with support , love and prayers. God in action. Amen!
By the time everything about the generosity of others is on this blog, you will be able to see how each one of my life events and the people who have helpedus.It was predestined for our lives through Psalm #139. And, God Almighty.
God Bless you,
Danny
We are all friends as this song suggests
Thats What Friends Are For
16 Wednesday Jul 2014
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cancer, faith, gleoblastoma, god, good shepherd, hope, jesus, life, love, miracle, Miracles, prayer, prayers, survivor
My illness took me, a type A personality who never stopped and alterered my whole reality and my identity of who I was to myself, my family and the world. I went from super dooer to a person who relied on everyone especially my wife and kids, family and many friends for the majority of my daily needs. I remember the personal guilt of feeling as is if I failed my family and those who relied on me at that time. My mom and dad included. The fact that I could not work, and am still not to this date, had really weighed on me . All the desires on my behalf of getting out of here have fallen short do to my slow but steady progress of recovery and the rebounding energy drain from treatment etc. I am a Roman Cathoilc by my parents choice at baptism, by the sacrament of Holy Communion , Confirmation etc. Having said that, I do believe is at some time in everyone’s life we are all born again. What I am trying to convey however clumby it may be is this. To me God, My personal God is waiting for us to personally meet him with a heart that yearns for him. I had always done the works before I had cancer. When I was a very young child I was a paperboy. On Thursday evenings I would go out deliver my evening route and collect the money from the customers, hopefully with a tip.:) I am guessing I was nineish. On Glen Ave in Arlington I had a number of clients, one inparticular has stayed in my heart and mind all theses years. Her name was Esther Sullivan. She lived in a second flloor apartment of a two family home. i would go up to her door ring the bell and there would be a buzz and the door would up lock for me. it was like Star trec or something. She could not do stairs easily anyway so, I would bring her paper up to her and her siamese cat would hiss at me.i though he was scary and exciting. His name was Tao. But, I digress. lol So anyways, during my visits. I would carry things in the kitchen because she was by herself and i wanted to. I began to spend a few more minutes there just talking to her about what ? maybe worms :)I then began to wash her kitchen floor her, I then went home and told my mom about Esther or in that day Mrs. Sullivan 🙂 My mom was making a cake at the time so I said mom can you make a little cake out of a small chicken pot pie tin, she was very compliant with my request and taada, Esther was getting a small cake weekly delivered in my mail bag on my stingray bike. The bottom line to this saga is this as a child our love and innocense guides so much. it is like the right thing to do is easily less complicated. Were just guided by God’s goodness and the Holy Spirit. As I got older personally doing good works and deeds became also combined with the fun of the crowd social aspect etc. Sorry was it really for God? The jury is still out. During my time here in a recliner ,I have had a lot of time to evaluate everything, not by emotion but by the Gold standard God, his teaching, commandments and what is this whole thing about meaning life. I do not know all the answers, i suspect I never will but I know the most important thing. God! He call us to love eachother the way that he loves us. God wants us to go to him for forgiveness , in my case that would be the confessional. because, I have learned that I need to forgive myself what i felt was my failure by getting sick and altering my whole families world. through my prayer, my confessional visits and a wonderful Priest, God has healed much more of my life that my body, my Spirit is awake and aware and the vision of myself as danny the person can love himself a lot more and accept that i did not bring this on myself. neither did God but he getting me through it one way or the other. He is the boss! He doing the very same for you all and always has. Well, One day I made my way to Esthers stairway rang the bell and there was no response after a few minutes, a man opened the screen door on the first floor and I said i was looking for mrs. Sullivan and he said she does not live here anymore. I still miss her today.Some times I wonder If she was sent as an angel into my life to see if I would respond to God’s calling. On a kind of sillier note I hope she was allowed to eat sugar and my little cakes were not leathal. Well in closing in Danny’s world here, I have made an effort whoever clumbsy to find God and it took diagnosis day when the Good Shepperd met me where I was at. We need to work our faith and pray even when we cannot feel anything. God will not fail to respond. And furthermore he will always meet us in the moment. Here is here. Feel the breeze on your face look at the beauty of a baby that you encounter it is that easy.
Bless You and Yours, Danny
Just Danny Speaks 