I cannot imagine a time in my life that I have ever thought that the world needed to go to our Blessed Mother for comfort and ask her to work as our advocate for our needs and protection more. To bring to her son Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior our prayers and needs to ask him to pour his Mercy out upon us all in this world.
Please pray for M D who passed this week. God Bless her and her family.
A Tribute to the Virgin Mary
Dancing Sun Miracle – Divine Mercy Hills, Philippines on Divine Mercy Sunday.
Holy Mother – Eric Clapton & Luciano Pavarotti. THE LYRICS ARE BELOW THE LINK
“Holy Mother” is track #44 on the album 50 Greatest Tracks. It was written by Clapton, Eric Patrick/bishop, Stephen.
Eric Clapton:
Holy Mother, where are you?
Tonight I feel broken in two.
I’ve seen the stars fall from the sky.
Holy mother, can’t keep from crying.
Oh I need your help this time,
Get me through this lonely night.
Tell me please which way to turn
To find myself again.
Holy mother, hear my prayer,
Somehow I know you’re still there.
Send me please some peace of mind;
Take away this pain.
I can’t wait, I can’t wait, I can’t wait any longer.
I can’t wait, I can’t wait, I can’t wait for you.
Luciano Pavarotti:
Holy mother, hear my cry,
I’ve cursed your name a thousand times.
I’ve felt the anger running through my soul;
All I need is a hand to hold.
Oh I feel the end has come,
No longer my legs will run.
You know I would rather be
In your arms tonight.
Eric Clapton:
When my hands no longer play,
Luciano Pavarotti:
My voice is still, I fade away.
Both:
Holy mother, then I’ll be
Eric Clapton:
Lying in,
Luciano Pavarotti:
safe within your
Both:
arms.
Luciano Pavarotti:
Holy mother, hear my cry!
(Holy mother, hear my cry!)
Holy mother, hear my cry!
(Holy mother, hear my cry!)
Holy mother, hear my cry!
(Holy mother, hear my cry!)
Holy mother, hear my cry!
You know there is an old expression that I have heard, “In every life some rain must fall”. Without the rain and trials of life we would not be growing and learning so many different life lessons. I think that the lessons that I have personally learned thus far are the most important. Because, by ourselves it is easy to be me centered, me oriented, me focused on every aspect of life. Generally speaking through God’s Miracle of birth we all arrive on the scene by ourselves from the safety of our mothers wombs.
And then everything we learn, eating, crawling, standing, speaking etc are learned and used by us to be independent of everyone. Our parents are charged with the responsibility of protecting us, feeding, clothing and helping their children to see their God given gifts, assisting in their education, the most important of which is Faith in my opinion. And being a kind and compassionate member of society on many different levels and aspects.God did not design us to be self absorbed, he intends us to be a generous benefactor giving our time, service and gifts to others to bring The kingdom Of God to life on Earth.
Teach The Children wells Crosby Stills
And when we are ready and have learned our life lessons we are on our own, the masters of our own destinies.
But we need to strike a balance in this life.
What it comes down to is this, in my opinion.. While we are out persuing who we are to become what happened to me personally was my Faith was at odds with my drive to succeed at what God had show me as my lifes work. My work was also a ministry of sorts, I loved my clients /friends and my employees. I yearned for the simplicity of Being with God, With family, with friends and helping any one along my road that I could. I needed to learn that I had to watch to make sure that the worldly stuff did not invade every area of my life. God and service could not be put on hold. So, I was busy juggling work, family,faith friends and charitable endeavors. But I was young and why shouldn’t I or my wife sacrafice ? To whom much is given much is expected.
I am sitting here with a monsoon outside today 🙂 LOL It is still beautiful to look out and see God’s nature at work.
I thank God that when I was physically able back in the day that I did every single thing that I could do for another that needed it while I could. My wife and I never left one brother or Sister behind. Praise God that I/ we listened when I/ we were called. If I had not who knows if God would have heard me in my moment of need.
Remember The Lords Words… What You Do For Your Brother, You Have Done For Me. Amen!
“Thank You Lord ” ( for the trials that come my way ) with lyrics
My lifes ups and downs are mine just as yours are yours. It is when we are in our lowest possible points in life that we truely become the most generous, the most loving and the most compassionate. God stetches you to become more. We gain an understanding of something that we were blind to. It is like fasting and prayer through fasting, we receive additional graces that allow us to learn a different type of teaching through The Holy Spirit. Where we get what God is saying without the wondering. We own it.
I honesty hope to soon be out in front of the Blessed Sacrament at my church asking Jesus through prayer to answer my and your needs, to see my dad more, to visit the nursing home once again to say hello and let them know that they still count.
I just found where that old saying comes from….. Below.
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The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the moldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.
My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the moldering Past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast
And the days are dark and dreary.
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
I had a very heart wrenching conversation with a very sick Aunt the otherday. She is my god mother actually. We converse by phone when she feels up to it. My aunty has been struggling with lung cancer that has spread. She is tough and is a fighter. She has had one set back after another and the treatment is getting too much for her to handle. She is sick and tired and very angry with life.
Yesterday, I was so happy that she called me because she and I were able to talk about everything in her heart surrounding her illness and in her feeling towards what she felt her illness was doing to her family. Every word she uttered I got, just as every response that I gave she understood. She was suddenly not alone in this crisis.
She like I have said has been suffering from a terminal cancer and has held her chin up to Heaven with constant prayer.
I said you know Aunty, its okay if you are tired, it is okay to continue treatment or not to continue treatment.
You need to pray to God and get peace about this. Sometimes quality of life is more important that quantity. If you are this terribly sick from this new drug treatment then maybe you need to decide if it is worth it.
You see these are very real life circumstances that I too may need to face at some date.
I reassured her that she will know, a peace will come to her surrounding any decision around this matter that she makes. God is with her
God’s got her and us all.
So, Please keep my Aunty J in your prayers.
Remember life can be lived like a tragedy or it can be lived with the assurance that God’s got it and it will be beautiful depite the circumstance.
If God’s got a loving word for another that is stuck on your lips you need to let that love message out. Unleash Love to everyone ! Amen !
I know that my Aunt would love this song. It is from our family vacations at the beach in NH
I am sitting here today in my chair looking out onto God’s creation and my large beech tree. The sky is milky white, there is a soft breeze moving the huge canopy of gorgeous leaves. The colors of the leaves are deep red, golden yellow and green. The squirrels are on its beaches getting the beech nuts to store for winter.
It is a beautiful thing to behold from where God’s got me in this moment. My wife and I were invited out for dinner last night to a friends home. I did not realise how much my wife and I needed this until I was there. We have been friends praise God for 20 plus years with this couple and they have traveled a similar road as us. They are part of the Cursillo community we lived our retreats at the same time in 1999 and they are very stable in their faith walk with God.
They are busy with work ,children and ageing parents and relatives but you know what, they get it done by God’s grace and are creating beauty not letting life create havoc.
Last night was just what God prescribed for all 4 of us. They are what God called us to be the salt and light to everyone, and they are.
John 15:12-15
John 15:12-15New International Version (NIV)
12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.14 You are my friends if you do what I command.15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
Get up each day no matter what and greet that day with joy and a resolve.
Its not the plight in your life that you face, no matter what it is that defines you ! Look at the dilemma you face and look at the options for creating an opportunity in that situation. Find the hidden pearl in the situation like Sue Austin did. The Holy Spirit of God is unbeleivable so jump into your life and cast your disability into the abyss and live life to its fullest.
Be God strong. You are royalty:) You are the child of a King !
Go full screen and witness this beautiful womens story 🙂
“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. 🙂
This is just beautiful, This is from a movie worth watching, August Rush. The point is that music has been a gift to us all. It defines periods of our lives many joyful others painful none the less they make us who we are today. We need to look for good positive things for our minds and the Holy Spirit to embrace during our day’s. I find that I need to ask so God, Whats today about ? Then I pray on it. It does not have to be long and aloborate. it just needs to be heartfelt and he will answer.
Like I always say sometimes we need silence but we also need the joy of good music to inspire us and to sooth us.
From August Rush Movie. Beautiful
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My Wife and I took my son to see this production in Boston years ago. It was Donny Osmonds last performance. He became racked with fear and could not continue the tour. They said he had a knee injury but years later he admitted that he needed to step away from his career the fear on stage was crippling him.
Again, he is human like us and for him, he was treated and is back on stage and behind the camera.
It was a beautiful story brought to life before our eyes.
My son always remembers that particular event . It was Special memory for us to share and when we hear the songs its lifts the Spirit and heals us . Amen !
Donny Osmond “Any Dream Will Do ” Give Me My Coloured Coat “
As a follow up to the Whitney Houston Post from last week.
We have Elvis Presley another artist that passed too quickly. He was so deeply rooted in his faith and you can see by his demise in later years that drugs and alcohol took a toll on him he was only 42. Sometimes we look at other peoples lives and think the grass is a little greener but the reality is that with much wealth comes much responsibility. And if the wrong people are around because of the available finances they can crash you into the rocks.
Elvis was a very good man and had a tremendous God Given gift.
If you look at the post from Sept 23 it has the videos for Delores Hart who is a nun and was Hollywood’s highest paid Starlet. She gave Elvis his first on screen kiss. On the video links on Sr. Delores Hart say’s that what stayed with her and always will is what a wonderful and innocent man Elvis was.
Elvis and now Sr. Delores Hart
Elvis Presley and Dolores Hart – Loving You (With Rare Photos)
The gifts that this lovely lady has really make you realize how important a connection to oneanother is. The elderly can become invisible to so many of us.
At a quick look, one would never think that this person would be so accomplished, but God is in everyone of us. And thats why we cannot judge a book by its cover. 🙂
I have mentioned in the past on my posts that we have the gift of the Holy Spirit that resides within us to help us and to guide us during our lives here.
One very important aspect that we have to consider is what we expose our selves to. Our Eyes and ears are under an assault from all that is happening in our world.
The television, shock jocks on the radio, some of the movies and rediculous commercials that are practically x rated. The Launguage, is terrible.
You know, I am no prude.
prude
pro͞od/
noun
a person who is or claims to be easily shocked by matters relating to sex or nudity.
Over the years and when something would come on that was off color in one way or the other, I would say our kids are around and they should not see this stuff.
People do not realise what they are exposing themselves to. All kinds of spiritual mumbo jumbo and toil.
Back in the day, I use to watch some stuff on tv that my mom and dad would say was nonsence. Shut it off. But, my generation was not parked on a couch with a tv and 400 stations either. Add to this situation now all the different devices that are out there that allow people to stay connected and watch shows anywhere, anytime.
I am far from perfect. But, now I get a visceral responce if someting is on , tv, music, even nonsence talk about others whatever. I am a pro now at dealing with this circumstance, I just get up and seperate myself from that situation.
I do not judge, but this junk is not for me. It doesn’t enhance my mind, spirit or intellect.
If the Holy Spirit that resides in me was not in a place where I did not fill my mind with horror stories, sex and profanity then I could not have taken on the cancer diagnosis the way that God allowed me to. I spiritually would not have been prepared. I was filled with my desire for God so there was no room for junk.
Like the food that we eat for our bodies effects our physical health so too is that true for what we take in through our ears ,eyes, and actions. They can all be an affront to us Spiritually and mentally. And if we are listening to our Holy Sprit( voice within ) then we would know this. We get convincted.
You know, If you look you can find good stuff that is funny. One night I was at a friends and he said hey this guy is on and he is a riot. So, I sat down and he put it on and within 5 minutes he was laughing and I did not get it. There were too many F bombs coming. So, he finally asked me as I was getting out of the chair to leave the room and I just said its not for me.
I always think what would Jesus do?
I just know that Jesus would not sit there either.
Affront: an action or remark that causes outrage or offense.
“he took his son’s desertion as a personal affront”
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