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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

Generosity of others part 2

10 Sunday Aug 2014

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My  family and I had support given to us at that May fundraiser from so many beautiful people  that we had not even met. Bussinesses from Wakefield, Arlington and corporate chains donated items necessary to facilitate this effort. Friends and family canvassed business everwhere for items to make up gift baskets.Our friends from my writing in the loss of someting sacred that my wife reconnected with during her time on bedrest were the one’s responsible for getting this whole thing going. She got my story into the Arlington and Wakefield area papers. Their own children, their mom and dad and all of her siblings and cousins, My entire family worked in concert with them hour upon hour to make this fundraiser happen. Fr. Ron and my entire Parish gave our hall for its use and the rectory staff were doing everything they could to assist in so many ways. People from every area of our lives even my employer from when I was a 16 year boy was there, what an amazing thing. God is good. God has an army of love This will continue, God Blessings on you 🙂 Danny God will make a way  Dan Moen   My mom’s favorite song 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsMAXhc0QTs

People are such Blessings

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

Our Personal Psalm

03 Sunday Aug 2014

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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

Psalm 139 English Standard Version (ESV)

Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

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.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!
    Try me and know my thoughts![c]
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,
    and lead me in the way everlasting![d]

Gateway Worship : Song based on Psalm #139

 

God Takes over part two

30 Wednesday Jul 2014

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I had just completed surgery at the Lahey Clinic, the awake surgery as it is called. I did very well by the grace of God only. The doctor addressed me and then stepped out to tell my wife and daughter that things went well. He told her what he had told me. I was taken up to a room shortly thereafter. I went to the restroom in my room and got into bed. remember, I had no surgical meds in me so I felt great and was busy with my family coming in and out visiting me. I had a tv on the swivel arm it was a whole  new world to me. lol  I know my nephew Stevie when he was in the hospital some time ago told his parents he wanted one for his room at home . Kids are the best!

I ate dinner, and relaxed, I ordered my family to go home 🙂 My wife was exhausted and I felt great. So they agreed and I was left with the tv, it had a radio too lol. My cell phone was sitting on the little table. I got quiet and began to pray and reflect on the day. The doctors and nurses where in and out and there was nothing to report. Everything was hunkey dorey. 🙂 Well my cell rang at around 730 ish, I am guessing it was and My friend who happens to be a Catholic deacon and lives in the big apple said , Danny how are you?  I responded never better, So I told him what had happened that day and he said just amazing, Dan what your telling me is just reinforcing my faith so much. He understands this is not the norm and he works in the medical field.  So, I hung up with my friend and began to pray my rosary once again and I received a text. One thing that I have come to understand is that God is working Spiritually on every one of us literally every second that we are here on Earth. The only requirement on our account is to work at our personal relationship with him. God has perfect timing after all he is the author of life. This next account would give anybody shivers.

So, I am laying their minding my own p and q’s as my mom would say.  I get a text hey danny, how are you ?

I responded hi  how are you ? I am doing great!

she responded can I call ? I said sure

One other point that I would like to share before I continue is that the only reason that my friend at this time had my cell # is that we worked together. I had changed jobs into her department and schedules were staggered for arrival time and I felt bad she was juggling two boys and work. I had offered to come in on all of her 5 am shifts and cover for her, For the record she never took me up on the offer, she gets things done. We also never spoke outside of work. You see God knew that she needed that number for just this moment! So she had it and I had her in my address book, I do not answer calls that I do not recognize.

My phone rang, I answered and she said Danny, did you end up having surgery? I said yes, and  that I was in the hospital overnight . I said, God has it,  I feel great…

Now some background on how I met this person.   Because of the slowing economy one year prior to my diagnosis which would have been  the spring of 2011  I took a job at a local Home Depot part time to close the gap and to try and stay ahead of our monthly expenses here. I would be up at 330am and punch in before 5 am. I would work until 10 am , then go off to my clients homes to complete their work usually working to around 7pm. Speaking as a man, I have always believed that a father has to lead his family by example, so work and sacrafice should be the norm. My father witnessed that to me and is the finest man I know. And finally, by nature of my Catholic Faith, I am called by God to lead my family Spiritually.morally and ethically. God does have a standard. It does not mean that I have always hit that mark but God knows, I do try.

Let me state for the record my wife always lead with me, and when I was at my weakest SHE took everything over ! So women can do exactly what a man does without the ego of course! LOL, I don’t think I’m getting back any of that power back either! So funny! she is small but fiesty. xoxo

Well, during my time at home depot I met so many wonderful people from all walks of life. I met a very nice person ,  I/we value her as a wonderful family friend now. This person worked side by side with me at work for the last  think  about 4- 6 months or so while I was at home Depot prior to my illness. She has/had  a really  protective shell, she is very bright, witty,smart and tough. I am easy going but agreesive in sales and I love to work. My typeA personality really shows up. I honesty love working with people and love to fulfill the clients needs. To give them more than they barganed for so they will build on that relationship with me. You have to be sincere all the times. So, things were tough a lot of people there were having their own worries, doesn’t everybody? I would walk around the building on breaks and connect with others supporting them, offering my prayers. Their we’re lovely people there doing the same for me. 

My friend, foe at that time called me  Danny sunshine or something to that effect. She called me a phony on more than one occasion. I just did notlet it bother me. I was always giving it up for God and would tell everyone offer up the stuff and suffering. She would say to me ,you piss me off. LOL . I would laugh with my co workers and say, you love me, she would snap no, I don’t. You know what, I appreciated that she was /is authentic she said what she felt and that was great, I said God tells me different. So this continued for a few months, I was always hugging everybody, it my nature and way anyway. She saw me with clients in action. You have to practice what you preech, people are watching and listening. As a matter of fact, I feel that if a person is phony with people and proclaim that they are God fearing that this action not only does harm  your relationship with God and our soul but this action can also destroy what people who are searching for God the opportunity of meeting God through you! I believe that we are accountable for our failures of not helping others. We are the fisher of men after all.

So any way this person and I really ended up having a good relationship at work, I loved her for who she was and respected her. She could not figure me out and  thought I was nuts and that too was fine with me. 🙂

God had ordained this situation for us both to learn. And,  back to the account , She calls, and we are speaking about surgery and she broke out in the most beautiful deeply routed tears from her soul, it is called a healing, another miracle as far as I am concerned.. She continued to cry, and said you don’t understand Danny its because of you that I believe in God. You told me that you had to go through this and were not afraid, I can’t believe, well any way that conversation was beautiful and we hung up. I sat there on my bed and said oh, I still have not finished my prayers yet . I said a special prayer for my friend.  With that my cell phone slipped on to the floor so I did what any brain surgery patient would do, I rolled onto my side stretched down to the floor to retreve it. How stupid that was  now that  I am remembering it but, it was for a purpose. after I finished my prayers I thought of my friend and I had a message from God for her, It was now around  after 9:00. I sent a text hey-, I just finished the rosary and before you go to bed tonight say a special prayer to God,The Holy Spirit and the Blessed Mother ask them to reveal to you that they are in the moment with you.They will.

She called right back saying OMG. As, I sent the text she was on the knee’s beside her bed asking for God’s presence she had not done this for years, so my text and her action proved that God and heaven were indeed there in that exact moment. Joy burst her heart . and she was on the road again towards the cross. Our God is an Awesome God! He loves us all so much 🙂

Finally believe it or not…..

A man came into my room at around 10 ish,  I was suppose to be in a slumber by now. But, I was still going strong.  I guess you could say that I was God strong. 🙂 He said, hi I hope I am not disturbing you, I said no. He said he was the head Chaplin. I said oh that’s  good could I get the Eucharist please, he apologized and said he was not Catholic, I said okay:) So he said can we speak? I said sure , he grabbed the chair and sat beside me. He said there are a lot of people who are talking. They are upset, patients, staff here etc, can you tell me what happened earlier downstairs, what they had witnessed.  I said nothing, I had surgery and smiled. That is the moment that God through the switch on in my head to realize what  God was truely doing through me. I declared to him that it was God, and we spoke for a few more minutes about the events. He thanked me and gave me a Blessing and he left.

As a side note, a few months later a women approached me in my church who is a eucharistic minister at Lahey and said her boss, the one I was talking to that night had been speaking about my witness to him and she said I know him. You see we are all connected.

I will be  putting a very special psalm onto my blog in the next day or so . God revealed this psalm to me nearly three years ago in writings I had done in the Holy Spirit. It makes all the peices of our lives fall togeather. We really have no worries.

The day after surgery, I got up put the shower cap on to protect my wound and hopped into the shower, all by my onesies, I survived but the nurse said, I should of just let know. oops  That does make since but then again, I felt so well. I was going to be discharged and the bride was coming to get me.lol

I ate my breakfast, watched the news, the team of doctors came in and one was a women she was so lovely her presence was very kind. I am guessing she was assisting the doctor or surgeon the day before in the OR. You know with the gowns , breath masks and hats it is hard to deceifer who is who .lol

What happened next is the gospel truth,

 

The doctors came in and they were assessing me, and I said I don’t think I can go back to what I was doing before. ( meaning work) because, I realized my left side was effected and I said do you think that there might be a job here somewhere for someone like me? I need to make money, and I want to help others, they all looked shocked, I had surgery not 24 hours before but God is hope, God is our protector the Holy Spirit was helping me look forward by his grace to a future and I was not living my diagnosis!

She started to get emotional and said, I told my husband last night what happened in the hospital yesterday. Then she said excuse me and left the room. She came back from her office with some  information that I could look into, she said you can’t think about work right now you have to fight this illness thats what matters. I thanked them , God Blessed them and they departed the room. I sat on the bed my wife was there by my side the whole time. After a short while  the nurse came in with my discharge instructions. He was a very kind person also and after I signed the discharge papers and he hugged me , I thanked him and said God Bless You , he hugged me again and said no one wanted me to leave. What God was doing through my illness was showing his glory. People were not responding to me. What they were responding to was the Spirit of God it is just that simple.

God Bless You All!:)

Danny

p.s, I am taking a couple of days away from the blog to recharge, God’s  time. 

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