I heard this particular teaching on EWTN ON Tuesday afternoon.
I thought it was good and it would be great for Lent too.
Truer words cannot be spoken listen to the short teaching of FATHER CLIFFORD.
We are living this everyday. Amen. What joy and peace this gives me and it should give you too.
Well today was my first day with the ability to just go so I had a really excellent adventure this morning.
I sprang out of bed with a song in my heart as my mom used to say. And the song in my mind was freedom. I dropped my daughter at her job, and then headed to my dad’s house to surprise him. He was surprised and thankfully was happy to see me.LOL MY DAD is 87 and was changing his window treatments to freshen them up. He is such an amazing man. So kind. But strong. A Marine through and through. Love, love, love him.
From there I headed home and thought to myself I am going to the chapel for adoration and to pray. So you were all prayed for your needs.
So don’t be thinking that nothing good happened to you today, because you all received the gift of prayers. 🙂
I left the chapel and as I walked down the walkway all by my onesies I said to my self dang my old geloppy is looking rather sloppy. Lol. So, off I went to the car wash and when I got there I was sitting in my car and the young man approached my car and I told him I wanted the basic wash. In two seconds I found out his mom has brain cancer. So, I gave him this blog address on my card and he looked astonished. I just said have your mom just take a look. I said make sure you tell your mom that God’s in control. He smiled. My car looks clean all the dents and scratches are easier to see now. Lol
I then went to Walgreen for an item and talked to the cashier who said I looked familiar. I knew who she was too. I look different the last time she saw me was a year and a half ago when I walked into the store with my wife on a walker and I was huge from the steroid so I knew why she could not place me. So again I began to witness she was filled with joy and started talking about her handicapped daughter. God is so good.
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So keep your eyes and heart opened you never know what opportunity you might have to help another person or be helped by them 🙂
Stepping off of the Lent and Easter subject for just one moment , I wanted to speak about the one thing that I know that I have tried to do with my family. I have tried to the best of my ability to bring Christ ALIVE in my family. I certainly have not been perfect in my attempt because I am not a perfect farther or person. But I have done my level best.
The importance …
My family have been through an awful lot of stuff over the years. From the loss of a child, to family matters that came to our doorstep that we needed to become involved with. Jobs and building a business and serious illness with parents who required our attention. Finally terminal brain cancer 3 years ago which created the financial crap stuff that we have endured.
Once again. You know what, we are still here, we are still leaning on what has taken care of us all of our lives Our Lord and Savoir. There is still a song to be sung.
Still, Still, Still
Australian children’s choir.
I have watched my kids walk the path of life looking at us going through these  trying times to see if or when their mom and dad would collapse under the weight of things. You know as you all know God gives parents an amazing ability to put the kids first and to walk chin up and face forward into the storm. Giving our children the assurance that everything would be okay. God gave us that ability  because our faith is deep like the roots of a big tree. We also have a strong like minded family raised in faith. The final piece to this is that we have stayed close to our church community and friends. They too are steadfast in their veiled in God and his promises.
Their faith is what gets them through so much junk in their lives. They all four of them have sought friends to date that just make us so happy. They are all working and finishing their educations. Yes, they are doing things their own way at times but that is their life decision and they are making their way. They live scan to scan with me. They do not hate God because I got sick. They don’t like it but they have seen that I choose not to be a victim nor has my life been portrayed as one. I have told them that God’s will will be done. We  are all passengers on the bus and when my bus stop comes then I will  arrive  at a new and more beautiful destination. Amen. 🙂
This is why teaching your children Faith and God’s love very young allows them to face life with a healthy outlook. They can live knowing that hope abounds and nothing is too catastrophic. They are GOD strong and reliant.
Sorry, the text is so compressed on this particular blog entry . Don’t know why and could not fix it . It always reverts back. Lol I think it would do us all well to slow down, disconnect from the technologies and spend time in quiet where you can just pray and listen for God’s word, or thought that is for you. Just talk to your Father and tell all. Ask him to give you the Spiritual  gifts that you need now and for the future. Your prayer partner The Holy Spirit will aide in this process. A better friend you cannot find 🙂 Because he knows all the good , bad and the ugly that resides in you and me too. 🙂The following … is written by , Margaret Fishback Powers.One night I dreamed a dream.
As I was walking along the beach with my Lord.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
One belonging to me and one to my Lord.After the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,
especially at the very lowest and saddest times,
there was only one set of footprints.This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it.
“Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,
You’d walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don’t understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me.”He whispered, “My precious child, I love you and will never leave you
Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried you.”
You know I was thinking recently about all the things that can zap the joy out of life. In responding to emails and a call from my friend that I wrote about yesterday I was like Jeeez. Lighten up people. We  are taking stuff way to seriously. 🙂
This morning I decided as part of my Lenten journey that I was going to revisit things that touched my heart because they touched my loved ones hearts too they who have now passed. They made me who I am today. They are alive and well in my heart and watch over myself and family constantly . So, today I will bring the past to life even for just a moment and rejoice in the joy that they gave me even til this moment. Hopefully you will enjoy these songs and moments too.
In life we need to excentuate the positive.
Sam CookeÂ
Accentuate the Positive    life is soooooooooooooooo  Good. Forgive, Forget!
After all the Lenten journey is about taking everyone along the beautiful life filled journey of The Resurrection of Jesus Christ so let’s shine on.
I have a very dear friend who called me a couple of weeks back. Who was very hurt by another human being, I began to write about this a few weeks ago. This kind  person called me yesterday to congratulate me on my great results at my Doctors appointment.
After a few minutes I said so what’s new? The person said the same old stuff. I cannot believe how I was treated by so and so. I know what had been said to this nice person and just how shocking it was for them because of our prior conversation. As I said before, Evil things / words  gets thrown out when emotions get off the hook. My friend is a holy and good person so to see this behavior from another person being so bitter and hateful was devastating. I counseled this person again that the problem belongs to the other person not them.
I do not know  how I can adequately help a person who lets others ruffle their feathers and effect them so much.
I value and love my friends and family too but the reality of this life is that we are all broken and imperfect. We are the sum total of everything that we experience , our genetics, parental successes or their failures in rearing us. There are wounds that can drive us. Hidden in corners of our minds  that are sick and unhealthy.
This allows volatility, Â anger and lashing out.
All that an unhappy person needs is a person to do the slightest thing to set them off .To be at the wrong place at the wrong time and become a victim where the other person could dump their life Crap on to them. It makes the perpetrator feel better about themselves . It is a classic scenario unfortunately .But In  reality what it shows is that they are disturbed and the problems that  they have are very severe  in nature.
People are people
So, the bottom line is this I said to my friend that no one has that much power in your life. They do not define you nor to they have any right to unleash their garbage onto you . That person is no friend especially if after they had no remorse or apology even a  while after this took place. I don’t know who hurt my friend well but it sounded like this person is a narcissist. Who believes their own distorted reality.
So, what are we to do? Well, it’s only my opinion but I will tell you after the song.
Elton John Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
In closing once and for all as I told my friend last evening as I hung up. We meet people in our lives for good or bad. Some are loving and  some can be hurtful. We need to have them in our lives in order to learn from them these life events. We need to give thanks for both experiences good and bad scenarios in our lives  because we have learned a valuable life lesson that will make us stronger and wiser. It will help us to protect our loved ones and friends because we can then testify that people can do these things and you have to let that event go. We also do not not want to do what they have done to you  back  to them or speak ill of them to others. Jesus spoke very strong language about this. Words spoken about others unkindly are like character assassination. That is a sin.
Speaking badly about them makes you an evildoer too.
My friend apparently went with an olive branch to see this person just to try and  speak . My friend was attacked by and and was blown away by this persons viscous babbling and hurtful rant.
I told my friend to move on and pray for what was your friend. Whether you are a friend for 5 minutes or 100 years really does not matter. Sometimes life changes those that we know and love  in ways that you could never have expected.
But, life goes on and we need to focus on who love us and truely value who we and are walking with us with a  abiding faith journey of peace to God.
I learned from my friend last night that they chose the higher road as the verbal crap was flying at them and stayed calm. My friend practiced what they preached and waited until the other person fled. Â I am sure that person ran with quilt and shame dripping from them.
So bravo to my friend in this matter. It’s not easy to stay composed when under such a stressful encounter.
With that I hung up and decided that this would be my last DEAR Danny call about the carnage that people cause oneanother. This is also my last DEAR Danny column about this kind of stuff.  Yuck 🙂 my mom used to call this stuff Cucka, and it is!
LIFE IS WAY TO SHORT!
I SAY THIS… TO Â MY FRIEND AND TO YOU ALL WHEN IT IS OVER, MOVE ON, FORGIVE, AND FORGET.
Hi all, I decided to have fun today. Does that sound good ? 🙂
I feel like people are so beautiful. Age does not always matter when it comes to experiencing new life events and thrills. In essence challenging yourself. We are all little kids trapped in an ageing body 🙂 LOL
I happen to love older people they are All kids inside when I am around them and joke they loosen up and you see their youth come out . !  🙂  older people are very cute.
I guess I will start with this song.
Frank Sinatra  Come Fly Away
Get Ready to chuckle
Sky Dive goes wrong. This 80 year women has guts!  Don’t worry she’s fine 🙂
And this little old lady has no teeth !!! Â So Funny!
You may ask why the song below? Well, I will tell you. I was at Dana Farber at the crack of dawn for tests this morning  and the results were excellent , still cancer free. Praise God.
Okay, all joking aside. I take my appointments at Dana Farber very seriously. The first reason obviously is  that I want to live. God Blessed me with a beautiful family and friends and I would like to be there from them and for me . I am still young.
Secondarily I want and hope that the Doctors can discover the exact reason why I have defied the odds. I know it’s God’s doing through his mystery and the Doctors and scientist gifts from God for the medicine, the machines and the skilled hands and minds.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if they could pin point the reason and then turn that process into a cure. I believe this could happen maybe not with me but by some other case that is baffling the Doctors.
Miracles happen everyday , every time a baby is born, every time we wake up and walk into the mystery of that day relying on our bodies to function, to breathe, to live and to love. These are all God given gifts given to each one of us by his His grace and mercy. Amen.
This would make my mother in law so happy:) she loved him.
And, the Miracle really is US.
The midnight express Barry Manilow  It’s A Miracle
Another great thing is this, the weather pattern is finally broken. No snow this week a little cold startng out but slow warming at the end of the week. Melting, Thank God.
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