You know there are many 4 letter words, love, hope and rely are just a few. ð
I would like to speak about the word rely today.
depend on with full trust or confidence.
“I know I can rely on your discretion”
synonyms:
depend on, count on, bank on, place reliance on, reckon on; More
be dependent on.
“the charity has to rely entirely on public donations”
synonyms:
be dependent on,depend on,be unable to manage without
“we rely on government funding”
I touched on this subject a few weeks back and I guess today is the day to revisit this topic.
From the minute that we are conceived we begin to rely on our first human being our moms. Our futures are in their hands. They hold our lives in their hands.
We then rely on our moms and dads and their families if necessary to help to protect us ,raise us and help to gives us the guidance and support to find out who we are in so many ways.
We rely on our teachers, houses of worship, our friends and those that God brings our way to teach us valuable life lessons. There are other individuals in our lives periodically that are not Heaven sent and challenge us in ways that we do not want.
Nobody wants these people in their lives because of the pain and negativity that they create. The truth is as we grow in faith and become more comfortable and confident in who were are in Christ those people cannot rattle your cage.There is a peace that radiates from us and we donnot speak of these people in a derogatory way, we just let it go. So, in essence these people teach us a valuable lesson. They are necessary in our Spiritual growth towards Heaven.
When I was diagnosed with terminal cancer 2 years and 8 months ago, I for the first time learned the meaning of the word rely. I relied on everyone for everything. I could not feed myself, nor did I care to eat. I knew I needed to take meds but was too tired to worry about them. I was fading quickly and just wanted to sleep and just prayed with a very soft voice to God saying , God how am I going to take care of my family ? What am I going to do? As I said before I was too tired and too weak to scream out in despair. But my reliance on God allowed Jesus Christ to answer me with my first profound vision of the boat in Galilee.
God does work in mysterious way but they are wonderful and they work to an amazing end if we submit our destiny to him who created us all. God. ð
I have begun to fulfill yet another milestone in my recovery process that I will get into next week. I am very happy for this .
After Wednesday’s events involving the loss of Maria I woke up and was thinking very reflectively on life. I spent yesterday in prayer and quiet thought.
As I have always said, it is not normal in my mind that a parent should lose their child and in Maria’s case that her kids lost their mom. I feel badly for her family and I feel badly for her children and siblings as well. They are a involved and loving family always helping one another .
This situation has just served as a reminder again of how fragile life really is.
May You Be Blessed by Kate Nowak
This morning as I showered I again offered it up as a reminder of my baptismal waters and continued my prayer. After I got out of the shower I was looking at a painting done by a friend for me back 10 or so years ago and it is beautiful. I studied it as I stood there and thought to myself, each brushstroke on the wall is insignificant on its own but all of the paint strokes together create a work of beauty,
That is the way that we need to address our lives. Some of the brush strokes on my canvas are dark and strained but without those heavier strokes the softer ones would not be noticeable.
When my lifes painting is completed It would be my deepest hope that people will look at it as a beautiful attempt at humanity and love. A painting that helped people who were part of the brush strokes of my life. Amen !
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Today I wanted to thank you for the prayers for Maria. Please keep them going.Â
I received a communication  on Wednesday afternoon to please pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet for Maria. I said absolutely, what an honor.
I received word that Maria passed this evening Wednesday @5:30 p.m. surrounded by her family. She is with the Lord. Amen.
Maria and my family are related through marriage. As I said in my blog requesting prayers earlier today Maria was a very good person. She was human and had some real struggles. But she was real. She had a large heart that wanted everything to be perfect but her lifes struggles made that difficult. Maria was a mother of two wonderful kids and loved her family.
You know, my mom use to say all the time that we are alway’s toughest on those that we are closest to. We know somewhere inside that we trust that they will take it. That does not mean that it is right to be difficult with those that we love but thats what we do as humans because we are all imperfect from birth. We are called to learn, grow and love here. it is a life long process.
What I find as I am getting older and seeing these situations around me is this, I think some people are so big hearted that they cannot deal with life, its almost too painful. The highs of life give way to the lows of life and that fact can become devestating to them emotionally. When this happens they fall into a depression and other things that they think will help to stop the pain. She had a beautiful family and upbringing with tons of support from her family and church every inch of the way. God had angels in her life daily. As he does in ours. Maria had a great smile and great laugh. We shared some good laughs over the years.
Her struggle in life effected her family the same as our struggles effect our families.
bottom Line,
She was loved by her family and she loved them all too . And, due to the fact that she came from a family of faith, no matter what she lost due to her illness even with her mindset being what it was , she never lost sight of her God. She loved God. And I know, that he loves her too.
I know that when God greeted her that he saw that she was broken like us and that she was his loving child. When he saw her tears he wiped them away. Her heart was yearning for peace and  awaiting an eternity with our Lord and Savior where all pain is gone. Amen.
I am sure that God is well pleased with her beautiful attempt to please him.
His master said to him, âWell done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.â
Please keep Maria’s family in your prayers. Â Thank you ð
Rest In Peace beautiful Maria. Amen
God Bless You .
Danny
â There Will Be A Day â – ( Jeremy Camp )
P.S. Look at the reading of the day. How awesome is our God !!
Verse of the Day
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Colossians 1:13-14 (NIV)
For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
In this life and during our journeys we meet so many people. My family has been Blessed with meeting Maria. Like us all she too has had her own lifes struggles.
Maria, is currently laying in the IC unit in a Boston area hospital in the fight for her life. With pneumonia and a heavy infection. Her organs are apparently failing now as well.
So please pray for her healing and if it is God’s will that he take her to himself. Please pray for her children and the entire family they are all so wonderful.
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, Psalm and Prayer for the Sick (HD)
It is the time of Miracles and if we look we will see them. Â This link below says it all. God and his Angels and Saints are as always working in our lives.
These stories do not get the air time that they should.
The next song is one of my mother in law Vera’ s favorite songs. She too was a walking Miracle for 16.5 years beyond her six months to live diagnosis. She had the medical field all scratching their heads but we weren’t , We knew it was God. Amen.
God bless all those who served past and present to protect us and others around the world who were under threat in many different ways.
May our government remember who they are serving as they deploy our young men and women all around the globe.  They are after all, the true HERO’s  Amen.
I thought that today I would touch on my/ our Blessed Mother as we begin to ready ourselves for the Christmas Season.
The link below the picture is an explanation of Marys life journey once The angel of God appeared to Mary. And he came to her and said, âGreetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!â
And Mary said, âBehold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.â And the angel departed from her.
Do I think this happened, you bet your life!
Fr. Angelo Homily on The Marys visit to see Elizabeth.
Because Mary was a human as are we God called upon her. The difference between Mary and me is that Mary was born very Holy and lived a very clean and loving life.
The virtues are identified as chastity, temperance, charity, diligence,patience, kindness, and humility. Practicing them is said to protect one against temptation from the seven deadly sins, each one having its counterpart. Due to this, they are sometimes referred to as the “contrary virtues”.
Thank God Mary was who she was and that she was in control of her free will choices. Thank God Mary was full of Faith and Love for her God. So God could call upon Mary for the most important job ever ! Being a Mother ! The Mother of our Lord and Savior!
Because My Blessed Mother said yes to God even though she did not know all the why’s This choice gave us all the chance to be redeemed and we now are given a chance to say Yes to God in our daily walk and to aspire to do Gods will and to effect a change in this world . We are the salt and light to eachother.
So I would say to each one of you women who are moms or are taking care of and teaching children, thank you! May you all guide your children as Mother Mary did. Â With love and grace. Amen.
Today, I was thinking of some of my friends that I have lost due to cancer, drugs and accidents when I was young.
I remember them all in prayer to this day because I loved them. These kids that I met  were very young and most of them did not have what I had as a young kid. Two parents, a lot of love and parents who were on the ball watching their movements.
You know, when we love someone or something like our pets and become seperated by death we feel the personal loss in our lives but the joy of that love and what they meant to us never leaves or dies. God would never give us something like love and make it so that it ends. God is love so that is impossible. We are merely 1 breathe and heartbeat to where they are. I believe we will be united with all of our loved ones and friends someday that includes our little furry friends too. That’s my belief anyway. ð
Josh Gorman to where you are.
The list that I will put down below  are a few that died young friends that i have lost.
Buffy B. She had a cough that was masking cancer and she passed away in highschool. Buffy  was a sweet heart.
Frank N. great kid who ended up contracting aides and passed away  I guess he was in his early 20’s.
Johnny got mixed up with drugs and took a heart attack from the use of cocaine.
Kelly U. was 30 years old and was ironing her nurses uniform and dropped dead of a sudden heart attack. She had an undetected heart problem.
My brother had two friends who thumbed a ride to get home from a party on night and the person who was driving and picked them up  saw a police car and decided to speed away from them and went off of the mystic valley parkway and my brothers friends were killed.
My youngest brother had a very good friend who came to visit my brother he acted normal but gave my brother a few of his small prized possessions and was acting like he was fine. He said goodbye. Later that day he was found dead at Walden Pond from a self inflicted gun shot wound. So sad.
A young neighborhood friend  Bobby Mc. when college age went to a college party in Cambridge and went out onto the fire escape to get a beer out of the cooler and slipped on the ice Bobby fell 4-5 stories to his death.
We all no matter what generation we are from  have had to face these terrible losses. Thats why when we see someone struggling in our lives  we need to reach out to them and let them know that they count and that we loved them. It’s so hard to see anothers pain but speak the words of your heart. It really hurt my younger brother when his friend did this desperate act.
This list could go on if I think longer and harder but, I do not have to go through that process. I pray for everyone and their needs.
I was born with a gift of getting along, I will call it. Different groups, different people do not bother me. For example in my school years, I Â could jell with the so called nerds, jocks and rats if need be. My upbringing was such that we were not to engage and do things to people by word or action that was hurtful . We defended ourselves when we needed to in order to defend ourselves from bodily harm.
My parents always said sticks and stones may break your bones but names will never hurt you. You know we as kids deal with kids who sometimes do not have the life skills and say whatever stupid hurtful thought is in their mouths .
The bottom  lines is this in my opinion, life is too short to harm each other. The friends that I lost early on were kind people which only made their passing so much more difficult.
You know, when I was younger all the kids on my bus were great, they were all scared about growing up and the kids that were the bullies were the most frightened of them all. They had an identity crisis and felt the need to pick on the quiet kids. It seemed like every year that I sat beside another kid who got picked on and road shot gun beside them to protect these innocent kids. You know one of my favorite memories of school was the fact that I could walk down the hall with anyone and sit at any table for lunch. Isn’t that what God wants anyway? What also helped me was the fact that my older brother was at the same school and he did not take the bus but they all knew that I was Ril’ s brother so I had an invisible shield around me and i had my ability to charm a snake if necessary. Lol ð
Growing up was hard for us all, but I had a beautiful family life with God and I was safe. God gave me a large group of friends that were only a phone call away. I have looked back over the years and really believe that I was in my friends lives that passed for a specific reason. i brought stability, I was grounded and would say to them I would not do this or do that. I know my mom talked to more than one of them and my dad would try not to step on toes and guide them as well.
I thank my friends all of them but am remembering the ones that have passed because after 30 years I still carry them with me daily and feel called to pray for them. I still thank them for being such great friends.
This ( song)was one of the first songs of its type that came out during this time in my life and was a massive hit! Â So, for all of those friends that are gone, this is for you thanks for the memories ð
This is another artist that passed too soon. I think alcohol and drugs are truely a terrible thing if in the hands of a person who is lost, hurting and does not feel like they are loved and fit into society.
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Video)
The loss of anyone dear is difficult. My mom always said , you love big, you loose big. I will say this I am so happy for their love while they were here. I think for the most part I have had mainly healthy and authentic relationships with the people I call friends. No one is perfect but they have been sincere in who they have been to me. So, I thank God for each one.
As I have been writing about the fact that God gives us all such incredible gifts that vary from person to person. Some of the gifts that people have can make us shake our heads.
Last week I saw that Discovery channel was having a live event from Chicago  called Skyscraper Live with Nik Wallenda  a high wire walker.
I recorded it but watched it later because I was anxious and did not want to see if he fell. I saw his grandfather fall to his death when I was kid.
He made it across the wire. The wire was 600′ feet above the pavement and he was  blindfolded with not safety harness etc.
What struck me is this, He believes that God gave him this gift to inspire others and all glory goes to God.
I would suggest you look up his amazing journey, I am sure the library has DvDs too, I know he crossed the Grand Canyon last year and Niagra Falls as well.
God has given him peace to do this and an ability that few have. But he still had to have that faith and trust to step on out on to that wire. Â Quite a witness to me. Something , that I could never do.
I am directed once again through my prayer to say that we need to get quiet and listen for God’s voice and direction during prayer. We need to learn to be at peace in the quiet. It is a discipline that we learn and it takes a little practice. But practice makes perfect. Eventually even the small noises  that are present fades until you can hear what is going on in your head, words scroll through your brain and thoughts that are so alive and are meant for action are placed before us by God through the Holy Spirit.
Everyone of us is capable of a successful prayer life from the Pope to a small child. It is up to you to desire it. What we achieve in this life is limitless when be believe in ourselves not because we are great, but because Our God created us with the ability to communicate directly with him through the Holy Spirit to attain the gifts that are needed to reach our goals.
The one thing that I really have come to understand myself is this. God is not a God that worries  about us winning a lottery. What God wants us to desire in my mind is this…
God wants us to rely on him and to keep it simple. When we are in prayer we should be looking for things that will bring us closer to our God or will allow us to help others more. God already knows what we want so I do not ask. I figure if he thinks it’s a good thing for me or that I would be a good steward of that thing that he may allow it to happen.
God also wants us to rely on him to give us what we need and what is the best for us. Winning the lottery for example is not always the best thing for all of us. It could destroy many. But for the few that could handle it and remain who they are in Christ. They would be able to Bless so many. I heard of a regular guy recently that won a huge lottery and gave it all to charity. He said that his needs were met by God and he did not want it to effect his family.
When you as a parent are trying to talk to a child who is distracted and not listending whether it be because of tv, radio, video games whatever, don’t you find it annoying! Especially when you are trying to direct your child on a straight path where there is safety and security, and they are just too busy, there is too much noise etc.
By not shutting down the noise we are ignoring God. If you say God does not hear and answer my prayers it could be because of all of the constant music and the distractions of life is drowning out his voice.
Everything today is instant, a text message can travel the globe in 1 second. I had to learn to silence and shut down the technology before I begin my prayer. Otherwise we become distracted by it.
God deserves better, and we only get the best from our Father when we love, respect and listen to him. Amen.
Word Of God Speak  Mercy
So this upcoming  Advent/ Christmas Season look for the opportunity to devote yourself to more prayer time . I tell my kids all the time when you get into the car don’t just put on the radio . Give the ride to work to God. I use to do that a whole lot myself. It is very peaceful.
Just Danny Speaks 