I spoke to a dear friend today and she has been such a beautiful witness to Christ in so many ways for so many people. Isn’t it funny how those who truely witness God are so unaware of the effect that they have on so many others. It is a beautiful humbleness. Amen!
She said to me I had an experience, I saw Jesus there were no words spoken but it was beautiful.
She said, I know you would understand but I did not want to scare others. I said did it bring you peace and she said yes, then i said it was a gift from God to let you know that he is in fact happy with you.
There is no fear required 🙂
Guess What ! God’s loving you all too 🙂
Ask God for a revelation in your life 🙂 Knock and he shall answer.
“The Divine Spirit”. I have been wondering when this subject would come to the table. When I finally decided to answer the call to write this blog I thought that this subject (Divine Spirit ) would begin my writings, but the blog writings did not start that way at all. I am honored and grateful to be alive in this moment. The mercy that God has extended to me in this moment is something that I could never be able to understand or comprehend. But it serves a purpose in God’s plan. This is a season in my life that I am witnessing God’s supreme power. I see God in action in others lives and have been called to witness God to others through my life walk.
I never could exactly say how this worked, or what to call it but, I began to call what I have witnessed as the workings of The Divine Holy Spirit. I will begin to write about these very special events.
After my diagnosis, I began witnessing a presence that was emenating from my person that was far greater than me. This Divine Spirit was ministering to people, total strangers ,dealing with non believers and God made them believers in minutes. I had one doctor who was a non believer as I quicky found out. This doctor walked into the exam room this day and I began witnessing my story and once I said the word God, she was turned off. It is something that you cannot miss once you have experienced it. It definately made me feel a bit uncomfortable. My brother was there as well as a nurse R. I was sitting in the wheelchair. She took a posture on the table looking down on me sitting with one leg off the floor and one on the floor. She was so done with me, right away. I felt the HolySpirit in me Rise. Se said I heard about you and was like rolling her eyes, she looked across the room where this nurse R was sitting and at that point God decided thats enough and I addressed her. I sat there and witnesses God changing her life hopefully forever, but who knows ? People can be stubborn. God had me address her. Okay God wants to show you something and I said, but I need you to know the whole truth about my case and God. She stopped me and said show me and I said no, your not listening to God. She looked so frustrated. After a minute I heard in my head show her. So, I said wait a minute God just told me to show you. Her eyes got wide and I stood up out of the wheelchair and said Praise Jesus both my arms lifted towards the ceiling and Heavens. You see that was medically impossible because my whole left side was laid waste by the cancer and treatment. Yet God did it. She thought I was dead man walking, she did not say it , but I knew that she thought it. God knew that day that I would be there and so would she. I gave her my primary doctors name and number and told her of my Miracle healing of my shoulder and knee in Dec, 2010 I Said call him and he will confirm this. She ran out of the room. I told one of my regular doctors and they knew who she was and laughed. But knew how unprofessional that was. I met her only once but, that is all that God needed. He reached her.
That day was not about me, that day was about that lovely Dr. who did not believe that God was part of her/ our lives.
God makes us all extraordinary creatures, each one of us is created in the image of his son Jesus Christ. We are Blessed with gift of the Holy Spirit. We have his breathe sustaining our lives, and his love harkening are hearts back to him. He loves us completely and if you try to live for him he will allow you to become more of a blessing from Heaven to others. Which, in all honesty is a wonderful thing for us because not only are we blessing others by God’s grace but we are securing our place at the table of the Lord.
John Michael Talbot. The Jesus Prayer Excellent
Do you want to See some one special? Well, here is is 🙂
10 year old blind and autistic child open the eyes of my heart Lord. God Bless Him Amen. He Is A Miracle. 🙂
My childhood was very Catholic but you know we are all subject to the culture , music, movies, television and the media slant of that time. We become a little more of this world in that process. Some cultural aspects are driven home to us and that’s when our foundations become so important. All of our mom’s ,dad’s , grandparents teaching to us since birth is critical to us.
Well, my generation was no different. This downward spiral continues on so many fronts today as well. I remember my grandmother talking about how stuff had changed in her day. My parents have seen it too.
We want our kids to have a good life and retain their God given freedoms, I worry just as they did, that things are going to be very tough on us and our children even in the U.S. in the future.
Paradise was lost in the Garden Of Eden, and what we were left with is a imperfect world. This world and society in my estimation is in a very volital and fragile state.
How the nightmare that I created ended…
I was scared staight by the Evil and then I saw God more clearly.
DAY BY DAY (And With Each Passing Moment)
In the end of the 90’s my wife and I attended a retreat house St. Basil’s in Methuen for a Cursillo and it was just incredible.
While I was there they had a box for the priests and the deacons. In this box you could drop your name into the box to speak with one of them. After lunch a Deacon J. M. came to find me. I had already seen a priest for confession. I just wanted to talk to a Deacon.
So, the Deacon greeted me and we went in and sat in a small office. I began to tell him what had happened to me and what I had brought onto myself and my family.
At this time also, I had moved from Belmont to a home that we had purchsed in late 1992, we had no problems there.
God called me that day to see this Deacon for sure psalm #139.
We prayed a Hail Mary and Our Father.
He asked me everything that happened and I told him. I said I have always been open to the Spiritual world and found myself in trouble.
He stood up walked behind me and said just relax and he began to pray over me and after a few minutes he gently touch the top of my head and a very soft electrical feeling when from my head to my toes. I said wow, what was that ? He said, Jesus just healed you completely from anything that was not of God. I could feel the lightness of my mind and Holy Spirit. 🙂
I Can See Clearly Now – Jimmy Cliff (lyrics) Our God Is The Best 🙂
My focus was then turned to only God, Jesus Christ and Heaven. My life has been so good since that intersection of my life. You see, The apartment in Belmont was not haunted, I guess, I was because of my rebellion against my Creator.
By my personal growth through this terrible experience God has taken that mess and used me as a witness in this time for him. God is not about one person. He is about every living person Amen !!
Evil does not have a foot stool in my home or body. Jesus is filling us to capacity. Amen
This Song Is So Appropriate:
21:03, “I’m Sorry” Lyric Video
THANK YOU GOD FOR SAVING ME by Chris Tomlin with Lyrics
This Post is truely a serious subject to me. Let me frame this situation up to the best of my ability. It will take more than one writing, that is for sure. But it is true, it contains the Shrine in Boston, A priest and my landlord. A spiritualist came to my apartment too. Life was scary thats for sure! This event took place around 26 years ago while my wife and I were renting a beautiful apartment in Belmont.
Life was beautiful my wife and I were engaged and we rented an apartment in Belmont. One of my clients was a realtor and she had this listing. It was a beauty.
WE did not live there until we got married. We would not have but the landlord told us that we could not anyway, they did not go for that stuff. We just bought stuff mainly 2-3rd hand who cares. 🙂 and furnished the place.We earned our pay and liked to save for the proverbial rainy day. We were wed and moved into our apartment together. Married life began. My wife and I had our first son D. My wife worked nights 6pm and arrived home by 2 :30 a.m. I left for work at around 7:00 a.m. so my wife was on duty at that moment. Things were very good at the apartment for the three of us. Our landlords were old school and very family oriented. We loved them.
My wife and I were expecting our second son Brad Michael and he was found to be ill and my wife also went into labor and was put on bedrest. I spoke about this on the July 29th blog entry.
Well, my son Brad Michael passed away and the day after his burial we moved home to Belmont after 6 months of living with my parents.
Life was very bitter, and we were angry with God as many people would be. It is not God’s plan for children to die, it was brought on by original sin. I was also at this this time in search of my faith and even though I had been attending church I started a boycott on God. I was lashing out and getting revenge on God, how stupid ! I left God just when I needed him most. My wife was so devestated that she kept praying and crying. I will continue this, I can only go so far with each writing, what spiritural stuff that I brought upon my family was horrific. I tried to tell Fr. R about them years ago, and just could not. It was an open wound still, to me. Like I wrote in a past blog we need to be careful what we expose ourselves to. Evil is for real !!!!!!
This song is very good, I walked away from God in anger and hurt. I left him , but he never left me.
And we are his salt and light to each other . Amen.
Listen to the words and realize that there are people who struggle with their faith and belief that there is God waiting to meet us when he calls us. So, we need to shine his light on others and speak about his love for them .
You know, I went to church this past weekend and I saw an older gentleman that I know there. He leaned into me and said there is a person that keeps confronting me on faith based stuff and God. This man was stressed out he could barely stand he is very handicapped. I said B, Do not worry, I made this mistake years back too I said. You cannot save anyone, only God can. We are called to live our lives in a way that people will want to say what do you have, That I don’t?
I told him if this non believer is coming after you then that is not God, if this person has a Spirit of Opression then that too is from a different master. I said to B, do not give your peace up, don’t respond to the attacks, pray for this person. Not because you feel your right or better but because he is lost. Amen.
Why he confided in me in that moment only God knows. The bottom line is that I am proud that he trusted me enough to come to me. These are situations that we all face. It is life. Because B came to me with this issue before mass, I was able to pray for them both so it made that Holy mass even more special. Amen.
England Dan and John Ford Coley . Love is the answer
I am going to touch on the first time I remember crashing my life/boat/car onto the rocks/into the tree. My family alway’s reminds me of this event. 🙂
I wrote in a earlier blog about our free will choices that we make can potentially make us crash our lives onto the rocks. Well, in this next account I really did it.
Patience is a virtue that I am still learning but at the age of around 6, I did not possess any at all. I frankly did not care and for good reason!! 🙂 I had a orange and green plastic boat that I was determined on christening it in a tub of water.
Well you see , back in the day like 1968 for boys, boats, planes, little green army men and live turtles ruled the day.
I wanted to get my boat into water and make it float. So……
I did what every kid would do and went in to the kitchen where my mom was with my grandmother, siblings and a few cousins. My grandmother and mother were hemming pants etc, I was driving them crazy so my mom scolded me and I and was told this is not the time! Go play for a few minutes with the other kids.Well, Bozo and Willie Whistle was not working for me! Ready for a flashback ? LOL
Willy Whistle Show
Bozo the Big Top.
I hatched a better plan 🙂 So I thought.
And being the good boy that I was, I weeped and left them alone. I snuck out of the house and got into my mothers pontiac safari station wagon, it was very new. It was also turquoise in color . Man, it was the cat’s meow ! lol
It was similar to the picture below.
So any ways, Just danny got scolded for being impatient so, I got out of their hair and got into my moms car.
Well, I climbed into my families dream boat /car with my boat in hand and my voyage began. I started to pretend I was floating my boat. I decided to climb into the back seat where I belonged ! For gosh sakes I am only a kid. 🙂 Then the un thinkable happened. I caught the silver gear shift with my foot and away I went down the driveway it was a hilly one too and my grandmother was holding on for dear life to the outside of the car door as was my mother screaming. Fortunately for me there was a really big tree across the street that stopped my boat. My mom took me out crying and said don’t you ever do this again. She hugged me and then I got punished. I deserved it too. We were instructed never to leave that house. I unlocked the door and snuck out of house. The car talgate was damaged but thank God , my Grandmother, Mom, siblings or cousins did not get hurt. My mother and grandmother where so attentive to all of us always. Having 4 kids of my own and working opposite schedules than my wife, there were moments I am sure the angels watched over my kids when I was on duty. My mom had a way of controlling here temper she would take your arm and look into your eyes and you knew, you learned. She was a treasure to our family. Still is for that matter and she is watching over my family for sure.
God was there that day and his angels protected us all. As a final thought. When the car was stopped by the tree I fell over and landed on the back floor. I am not certain what happened to that toy boat. 🙂
Life is not a cake walk and we have to see the positive in it and not allow ourselves to become down and put out in any way shape or form. No Way ! God calls us all to Victory through him.
News Boys Stay Strong.
I just had to cancel my Dana Farber appointment for tomorrow because I not only have a recurring sciatic nerve condition that has been with me for at least 4-5 weeks now, but I also had a tooth extracted and its effects are lingering. The final piece was a sore throat that started Saturday a post nasal drip arrived and finally the cough.So, tomorrow I will not go for a scan but will see my Regular doctor for a sick call.
This is just lifes twists and turns and a reminder that we need to hang tough and be flexable. My family is disappointed because they kind of count the days to my scans. And my wife has altered her work schedule yet again.
As part of my last writing on 9-15 about the effects that I feel that my illness has had on my life and those that are part of it is.
There are so many guy things I used to do, husband things, dad things etc. You will understand what I am saying. My wife, kids and family have had to assume so many of my responsibilities .
But I am not allowing this to change my mind set. Not one bit. I am kicking this life in the butt and finding out the new person that God is creating in me. Amen !
For my beautiful bride 🙂 xox
Love never fails.
My wife does not complain too much even though she is tired alot. She just does what needs to get done.
God gave me his peace but he not only made me a witness to everyone of what he can do but more importantly God has opened my eyes to witness everyone in my life to see what true love is and what true sacrafice are all about. Starting with my wife, children, family and all of friends from so many areas of my life some have been friends for decades now. The type of friend you pick up the phone and talk to and it could be years and that does not matter, time collapses back and we are in the moment. Now, that is a gift !
This week my wife had to go places on her own. Church, grad party etc. I find myself all the time just saying , go and have fun. I want her to, but I also know that she is longing too for the good old days when being spontaneous and in the moment were the norm..
As far as the scan goes, I am not worried. I would prefer to go tomorrow but, obviously that is not God’s plan. So, we will see what is in store for the day.
The wedding vows my wife and I took over 28 years ago are being lived everyday by us here. Because God is here with us. God’s love is perfect. As difficult as it can be in our lives in any given moment , life is still very beautiful.
Love is….
It boils down to this today at Casa del Danny 🙂
I look as my medical circumstances today as a challenge that will in Gods time be straightened out. My wife feels that way as well . My doctor has told us that if the cancer was to re-e·merge that I would know it. And asside from the throat, mouth and my back I feel great !! 🙂 LOl Aint life beautiful. 🙂
Lets have some fun 🙂 My wife loved this song, when were younger.
During my mothers hospitalization at Spaulding Cambridge in the ventilator unit she was very sick, very weak and slept a whole lot. Remember, her prognosis was not good. My mom did not have a private room and I think it was a great thing for my mother and for her roomate Mary.
You see my mothers roomate Mary was not wanted in any other persons room in that unit. She was put in my mothers room because she was loud at times and dilsruptive to her roomates and the staff.
My mom was pretty much sleeping at first so they figured my mother would not be affected by Mary’s outbursts etc. God had a purpose for this situation and my mom was selected in this time to witness Christ and unconditional love to so many in that hospital during this time. And she was! My mother listened to the daily goings on in that room with Mary and My mom continued to get stronger by the day. When my mom was weined from the ventilator and was able to speak once again as I wrote in my last blog. At this point my mother looked like she was a Miracle that was on the road to a recovery, and she was. Right away the staff said, I am sorry to my mom, Mary has her moments. We will try and find her a new room, she is hard to place with others. My mother said don’t be silly, its fine. Due to Mary’s health condition it can be 24 hours of non stop action. The staff one after another came in and thanked my mother, my mom just felt that Mary was an angel, and just needed a calm reassuring hand. It was scary for Mary being there alone with all the machines, noises etc.
You see, Mary is a beautiful women in her late 50’s I am guessing and she is very bright. Something happened at her birth and her brain was deprived of oxygen and she was like a child from that point. This was prior to my cancer diagnosis so, I was able to be there daily too. My dad was there every morning and stayed until late afternoon with my mom and we (her children and family) coodinated so we would all be there at different times. Well, my mom would be helping from her bed fordging a relationship with Mary. Mary is just a beautiful person who would get upset and did not always have an ability to understand. I looked at her and saw a beautiful child there in that bed. Innocent and she needed to rely on everyone to survive. She too was on a ventilator off and on depending on her respritory needs. She had her older sister Dotty coming in daily, late in the day and would read Mary her childrens books, help her with some private care issues etc. Mary loves all her old movies and watched them all the time the sound of music, Judy Garland etc. Mary was living in the past speaking about her mom and dad who were her life.They both passed when they were in their 90’s. Mary has an identical twin who is healthy.
My mom , dad and family grew very tight bonds with Mary and her family. My mom would get Mary to talk, calm her down and help the staff to work with her when she was having a bad day. My mom prayed and talked about Jesus with her. When Mary’s sister Dotty could not come and Mary was waiting She had a private nurse Elizabeth come in . Elizabeth had helped and assisted her over the years at her home too. She is family to Mary:) She too would be praying with Mary, just beautiful.A gift to Mary and I believe Mary is a gift to her too.
Mary had her baby ( a doll) named Michelle. She had a toy baby bottle and she would be feeding that doll burping it and the doll slept with Mary every night. Mary would tell the baby its okay and she would tell my mom that Michelle was crying. My mom was involved when Mary was in a bad place my mom would end up feeding the doll and burping the doll, it made Mary so happy. My mom had such compassion for Mary and she loved her. My dad was there all the time so he could see her struggling, trying to eat. The staff was helping but she did not want them for whatever reason so my dad would say Mary, would you like me to help ? She would say yes, and my dad would help to cut things up etc. The staff was so happy to see Mary content and it really helped to calm the unit down. There is a saying, If you cannot do something nice then donot do anything at all. Service to others is an honor as far as I am concerned. It is not alway’s easy but there is nothing more rewarding.
I will continue with this shortly,
God Bless You,
Danny
A dedication to all the special needs kids around the world.
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