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God only knows. :)

02 Friday Jan 2015

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Hi all, as part of my little blog, one very important element that is regularly used through the guidance of Holy Spirit is music and video from many different genre’s.

As I work on my blog daily I go into a zone, prayer and talking to heaven. I will save phrases and titles that I receive and save them as ideas as they come to me. They generally inspire another topic choice or thought direction.

These phrases, words and inspirations can sit for a long time and all of a sudden they are in front of me again with a writing that correlates with the heading. I am never disappointed by what God reveals. One of the things that I do everyday after publishing a blog entry  is to go back to read them once again to see what was written the verbage, it’s spiritual nature and overall message. Anything that is on this blog must be natural, honest and not forced. Otherwise it is not for God’s Glory. Amen.

Once the writings are done the final step is to add the music, video and scripture.

The phrase during prayer that came as a title months ago that arrived again today was GOD ONLY KNOWS.

And today this piece of the blog arrived. Watch this link and I will wrap up this blog entry after you view. This song is very fun 🙂 it is also very true! …

God only knows.

 

There is no greater gift from God that touches us even while we are in our mothers wombs than sound, and music. It creates a connection with our mom’s , dad’s voices  and the sounds of the world. Songs are the glue that helps us to relate events and memories whether they are sad or happy and lock them up in away that they are ours forever. Part of our personal life tapestry.

Music can make us jump, dance, laugh and cry. When in school music can make you a band member creating enduring friendships.

Music regarding ones Faith will bring you closer to your God.

Music helps to soothe us and to express our emotions.

God gives us this special gift of the music through the Holy Spirit.

 

I believe music is given to us because it reminds us of where we are to go. The bible speaks of legions of angels singing and the angels all praising God at his throne through song.

This song is wonderful, the Spirit of God at work for sure.READ THE LYRICS GOD IN ACTION. 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMBycZq66ks

God Bless You.

Danny

MY , HOW Time Flies …

31 Wednesday Dec 2014

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How the years roll. Growing up in my home was full of traditions. Their was a lot of joy in living. We lived very big in a little way. For example fresh off of our Christmas celebration we rolled on into New Year’s celebration back in the day it was a packed house with family, grandparents and a few of my parents friends. In later years some of my siblings and my friends would drop in too. My mother was always thrilled to see them and feed them as well. 🙂

Guy Lombardo was on television with his New Year’s Eve celebration. And all of the food, my mom made the best chicken wings. About 5 minutes before midnight and the countdown with the ball drop mom would crack open the cold duck champagne . Lol and e even us kiddies got a little sip.

I remember tears just before midnight as we were leaving  the loved ones who had passed before us that year and were never to see the new year. But tears were wiped away and joy filled the room as we ran around, shook hands and kissed cheeks.

They were wonderful days , my wife and I have tried to continue that tradition with our family too. After all, that’s what life is about love and connection.

So for my mom and grand parents and to all of your loved ones too that have passed. Looking back with your heart and remembering is always a good thing to do on the night .  So, this year as we come even closer to ushering in the New Year remember to bring your loved ones and friends forward with you 🙂 Take them with you in your heart. They are still with us.:)

Guy Lombardo Tribute.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=aHKCPorcBvk

Guy Lombardo’ s last News Years Eve celebration back in 1977.

This was what was on back in the day. It is very different than what is on the tv now.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=pL60HdslvOk

Epic Auld Lang Dune

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Q-ncPPArxEk

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=aSq1cez_flQ

God Bless You,

Danny

Two Weekends Ago, NY Wrap Up.

29 Monday Dec 2014

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Today’s writing will wrap up my New York experience. If you remember a few days ago I covered part two of my families visit to see our friends P , H and family.

Let me state for the record that the absolute best part of the visit was just being with our friends and  seeing their eldest son E and his lovely fiance.

Our New York trip was years in the making. H and P have asked us to come for years to stay and visit and for one reason or another it never happened.

This time, I was determined to get there no matter what came up. As I got ready to go anxiety was building around my ability to get there and keep pace.

My wife said we need to take your transport chair and of  course I said no. I can do it! Well I spoke to P and told him that I did not need it . P  said you better bring it just in case. So, it came and went under the bus to NY. I had many different emotional thoughts while I was away. They ranged from blissful peace to feeling like a pain in the neck. Having me out of my element in NY made me needy. Not that  I would ever want to be that to anyone  but that is what I felt that I became. It took a lot of time, energy, and money on H and P’ s part to make out visit possible.

 

They refused our offer to pay repeatedly. WHY?

They were not grandstanding that’s for sure. They were being who they have always been Jesus to their friends. H. And P SAW a need and did what God wanted them to do. Having us visit and pushing me around for two days was an act of love. One that I /we will never forget.

We all shared some beautiful memories while we were visiting . I also had a few times where I felt deeply embarrassed by  the  confusion that I feel that I caused.

Some people don’t see a physically challenged or handicapped person  with a whole lot of compassion. We are frankly in their way. I saw it first hand many times over the last 3 years but NY, took the cake. Not everyone in NY was bad but because of the amount of people there it felt like it was rudeness on steroids.

I won’t get into it now but I felt terrible for what my friends wife and kids witnessed. It was upsetting to see them feeling bad for me. And I just felt like a killjoy because of how much attention I needed.

God is teaching me so much through this life experience . I don’t have to like it, and I don’t as a matter of fact, I hate it.

But God expects me to take this handicapped experience and make something positive out of it. Just as you are called to do the same in your own lives.

So in closing, I am very grateful for a beautiful visit with my friends, I felt the weight of my human frailty in this moment and what it has done after being at home and resting with this situation is that I had to be woken up to see where I was truely at physically .

With my eyes wide open on my situation I have two options available to me . The first thing is to as they say,  hate on myself. The poor Danny strategy. That’s not acceptable.

The other option is to look at this as a temporary problem. One that I need to accept for the moment. My friends P and H and family saw the treatment that a handicapped person faces on a daily basis.They stood up for me and took on the offenders.  I found myself apologizing to everyone  for being there.

H and P  are wonderful people and New York is very lucky to have them both. Amen.

People who need people. Barbara Streisand.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=fPlQ6EtArSc

GOD BLESS You,

Danny 

Two weekends ago part 2 with two awesome friends.

27 Saturday Dec 2014

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Well, where to start? I guess where I left off on my writing on December 22 nd.

On  Friday  Dec 12 my wife and I along with  our two youngest children boarded a bus for the Big Apple . We rolled into China town NY where we were greeted by our friend P who helped collect our luggage and my transport chair. Our friends from my writing on DEC 22 are now living in Manhattan. P told us that H was home getting dinner prepared for us, that it would be a quiet night . They felt I would be tired and needed the rest. And, I did. It was nice just being with them , breaking bread and talking. It was a special time. They said that we should get some rest because they had a busy day planned for us on Saturday. P said that they had hired a car for the day to take us around so that I / We could enjoy the visit.

Well, Saturday morning came and we woke to the smell of pancakes and coffee. H. was doing her morning prayer and P had done them and was going to run the East river I guess it was. Breakfast ended and we showered got ready and off we went as we exited their building we saw the limo  waiting. I / WE were overwhelmed. You see, they realized what I did not understand. I could no longer do NY in my current physical body. I get tired and phytigued pretty quickly. Stamina is building back slowly. P and H were also concerned about my welfare with the NY crowd they are indeed fast paced, impatient and like many places are not handicapped friendly. I would have been knocked over for sure.

We all got into the car and off we went all over the city. My kids and wife jumped in and out of the car  in China town and H showed the kids how to bartar the prices. Lol.

I was content sitting in the car watching them run around from store to store. P and I just talked, It was great just being with my friend.

You see, my friends from NY when they heard of my illness treated their 4-5 hour car trip from NY to see me here like no big deal. They have bent over backwards to be a light in our life. P would come up alone and take me out to lunch. He just sat with me to allow me to talk. He and H. are angels to us a gift from God. Amen.

We had lunch at a beautiful restaurant and then off to F.A.O Swartz to check it out . My kids  wanted to see and play their huge foot piano from the movie Big with Tom Hanks 🙂 .

P. Pushed me everywhere in my transport chair, we went to the Empire State Building and had a wonderful time.

We went after that to probably one of the finest steak  houses that I had ever been to and had dinner there as well. Next we were off to see a Night on the town a wonderful play on Broadway. It was very good, I told my family when we got home the set, the sound and the lighting tricked the mind you felt like you were watching a television show it was so clear on stage.

Finally back to the car and we made our way to Times Square . It was packed beyond belief we got out and I got into the transport chair and off we went into the crush of people to see the tree in Rockefeller Center. I had H in front of me, with her hand pulling my transport chair meanwhile P was behind my chair pushing and protecting , me , my wife was to my side as were my kids. H. Yelled, hold your bags to my wife and girls this is what they want, they’ll rob you.  With that my wife heard a noise and turned around. A young lady was almost robbed and turned around and pushed a man onto the concrete.

Perhaps H’ s yell and warning to my wife and daughters to watch out for pick pocketers  helped to heighten the young lady behind my wife’s awareness just in the nick of time to keep her from being robbed.  Only God knows.

We headed home and relaxed.H and P’ s home was beautiful like them, stylish not over done or fussy. They have a beautiful city view and you look at the new freedom tower.

The next morning Sunday we woke up Helen made breakfast once again and we were off to their home parish where P. serves as a Deacon. It is a beautiful old church. The mass was beautiful and I met a couple of the women who were praying for me during my battle so how cool is that! I got to hug them and thank them. 🙂

We then went to little Italy for lunch which was amazing and before we knew it we were getting on the bus bound for Boston.

I will conclude my writing on this soon.

The song below may feel heavy but it is not to me. It touches my heart and soul on different levels. Based on my diagnosis 3 years ago it was pretty much expected for me to leave this world. But praise God on Christmas night I drove over to Arlington with my wife and kids In my new, used giloppy 🙂  It was wonderful to drive, it was even better to see my dad and family. Another Christmas  Miracle. God’s doing it his way. Amen.

We are so grateful to God for our lives, family, and friends and thankyou for all of your prayers.

And, thankyou P and H for the hospitality and sacrafice in so many ways afforded us during our NY visit.

Michael W. Smith

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=I2uIIJathUI

God Bless You,

Danny

 

CHRIST THE CHILD KING. Merry Christmas All.

25 Thursday Dec 2014

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Merry Christmas 🙂

May God Bless You always and may all your Christmas prayers be answered quickly AMEN. 🙂

07.O holy night – Trans-Siberian Orchestra with Michael Crawford from Phantom of the opera.   AmAzing !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRn6gsS2L8U

Hope was born this night

This day Christ was born.

This day Christ was born, by William Byrd (ca.1540-1623)

What Child is This – Lindsey Stirling

Bing Crosby & David Bowie – The Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Live At The Helix In Dublin…

 

God Bless You,

Danny

BUYING YOUR OWN HYPE ?

23 Tuesday Dec 2014

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You know in life there is always something being hyped up.  That if we just had that thing that we would be complete. This happens on a personal level all the time.  Me included.

When we go for a job, we try to get the job and we hype up our accomplishments to make us stand out as the obvious choice.

Another aspect of us humans is this aspect. We sometimes in our own personal lives see ourselves in a slightly different way than we really appear to others. We can be too blind and too close to be objective about what we broadcast out to the world.

My question then is this …. Do you believe your own HYPE?

I am always so careful in my present day life not to buy my own hype. I am always trying to look at myself honestly and being authentic in my approach to all of my encounters and endeavours.

I am who I am in this moment because God and life are forging what I am to become. I am a work in progress just as you all are.

I like just being me, in my current situation I am an under dog trying to find out what my new life has for me. No hype left just an opportunity to fight my way back physically which will allow me to find my new life path. I am waiting with such anticipation to see what door may open.

My new life will have a bit of my old life (interior design) and a new path that will be helping people. Helping the ill , talking of hope and God’s victory.

 

         dictionary.reference.com/browse/hype

  1. verb (used with object), hyped, hyping. 1. to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usually followed by up): She was hyped up at the thought of owning her own car. 2. to …

     

     

    When you have almost lost everything, your life and everything material in nature the eyes of your Faith and  the Spirit of God will  bring us so much power and hope.There is  NOTHING  that we cannot do. If God is for us,  then nothing will stop his plan for us to be successful for his glory .   Amen !   🙂

    Ready , 🙂 

     MY Song 🙂   crank it !

     

    This song states the attitude and where I am at.   Thanks be to God ! 🙂

    It’s a new dawn. It’s a new day. It’s a new life

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUPVo_v49fg

    God Bless You,

    Danny

Man’s best friend , saying goodbye.

22 Monday Dec 2014

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Let me start with this clip .

Black lab puppies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od_k89bPHqw

 

I truely believe animals are a special gift given to us to enhance our lives. They give company to the lonely, they are trained to help the handicapped . Pets teach children many life lessons and witness the unconditional love, kindness,and acceptance to their human friends.

 

Well, I am very sad this morning because last evening my black labby Jessica Louise took ill while sleeping next to my bed. It was 12:30 am and my wife and I heard a noise and my wife jumped out of bed and ran around the foot of the bed to see what was wrong and I dropped my good hand down to her and said what’s wrong honey as I rubbed her head.And she looked up at my face and I knew that her nearly 14 years of life had caught up to her. She was labored in breathing, and could not stand up.

Fortunately for me my son was up writing a paper and my future son and law was over watching a movie with my daughter so they got Jessy into the car. My wife ,myself and my son went to the urgent care animal hospital in Woburn and it was confirmed that she had a stoke of some sort so we had to put her to sleep. It was heart breaking.

Like I said to the Dr. At the vet hospital She has been glued to me since she was a pup. When my wife had a cold, or my son broke his leg she stayed with them. When I became so ill with brain cancer back around 3 years ago Jessica changed and became even  more of a service dog on her own. Labs are a very smart ,very gentle breed who just love and serve.

When I was truely sick and was bed ridden after my diagnosis, my wife had to come to the bedroom to get Jessica to come out of the room to eat. She would not leave my side. So, God gave me and my entire family  a very special gift with Jessica and I am grateful to God to have had her through my darkest of days.

I will not be replacing my Jessica either it would not be fair in my current physical capacity. I used to play ball and wrestle with her all the time she was a big cuddly teddy bear.

My wife said to me at around 2:30 this morning the problem with dogs is that they don’t live long enough.

I agree 100 percent  we could have shared 100 years with our baby.

I am glad that we were with her, I am glad that we had such a good day yesterday. She ate breakfast hung out with our other old pup Jeremiah , and came to my chair where I roughed her up . I loved playing with her and she ate it up 🙂

At one point she came up to me at my docking station. She put her chin on my lap and looked up into my eyes and stared. I rubbed her ears and told her she was the prettiest girl in the house. 🙂  I used to tell her even mommy said you are. Lol

I am so glad that she was ours, and that we were hers. We took her on all of our family vacations. She was so good.

God bless my pup Jessica Louise this might sound crazy to some and I really do not care but I do believe that I will see Jessica and all my little pets that we have lost again. Love does not just die, I do not think God operates that way.

 

Pets are a responsibility, pets are a little work but pets are love, company , unconditional love and always forgive our moods. Jessy was all of the above.

Count on me. Bruno Mars.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=yJYXItns2ik

two weekends ago. a story of love part one with two awesome friends.

22 Monday Dec 2014

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Two weekends ago my wife, myself and two of my four children journeyed to New York City to visits very dear friends.

I began writing about H and P a few writing ago and this is the song I used,

The carpenters Merry Christmas Darling

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=lV5ENWOQ6d8

My wife and I met our friends over 20 years ago and they are part of our foundation of faith. We met through our parish school and our families became friendly. Cook outs birthday parties for our kids etc. They were the most open armed people I had ever met. They were helping everybody all the time. Nothing was a big deal. They both worked together in a health care related business they co-founded with partners and grew it into a huge business and had I believe 15 offices and hundreds of employee’s.

I do not know all the facts of what happened to their business it was on the new york stock exchange too, if memory serves me. The laws in their industry regarding in home health providers changed drastically and they were not being compensated for services rendered to the patients they were helping. They fought in court I believe and in the meantime they felt an obligation to take care of their patients and employees so they guaranteed the company financially. That way the elderly and handicapped as well as their employees would be taken care of during the court process.

Well, the courts ruled and the new law stood. They were losing everything . But were they really ?  Absolutely not!

It was a painful and sad time for them their kids and all of their friends our hearts were broken as well. They had some friends who were there still and others that dissapeared too. Similar to my cancer situation.

But you see, God had something better in store. I will get to that shortly.

 

We watched their family home get taken apart, their home was sold and they found a new home that was in their new budget that was beautiful. It was even more beautiful because of them and the Spirit of God that resides with them.

At their old home back in that day they would host family parties for many families. Their Christmas parties were among the most beautiful that I had ever seen.

People were not drinking to access their could be 100 people there and it still felt warm. Their home was large and had a beautiful Christmas tree at least 15 foot tall. They were part of the Arts so their friends were there with equipment ,microphones and were singing.  The 3 sisters that would come would sing that Karen Carpenter song ” Merry Christmas Darling “,  and it was so beautiful. The whole group that was there were family based and many where from our church.

We often remember those gatherings so fondly.

It was at their home back in the summer of 1999 that my wife, myself and children were invited to an impromptu back yard cookout.

So, we were sitting there at the table on the deck, the kids were in the pool and another couple came in L and V. and joined us. During that time I said hey what’s that retreat thing you guys mentioned before? Within moments one of my friends L took off and returned with an application for Cursillo an incredible retreat encounter at a center in Methuen Ma . ST. Basils. My wife and I lived our Cursillo in Oct and Nov of that year. It was life changing.

You see, our friends H and P had heavy rain fall in their lives. They lived through what could have been a devastating loss, but it wasn’t. Because God’s got them. And they ADORE HIM.

Furthermore, P being a guy like me had feelings I am sure like I did, with this cancer that he too felt like he had failed his family. But you know, he never failed them nor did  his wife H. When the laws changed, they protected their patients and employees until they had given all they had.  P. and S. began the climb back up the mountain to see the sun again together. During this difficult time they displayed such courage. They grew their faith together and sponsored many for the retreat center. They represent Jesus Christ in action to so many. H. Started cleaning homes and became a real estate broker too. P  got a new  job in a medical field and if that were not enough  P then applied and was excepted into the deaconate and was vetted through the very difficult process of becoming a Roman Catholic Deacon. It was I believe a 5 year process. My wife and I were honored to attend p’s ordination at the Cathedral in Boston. The deaconate training was very tough and his wife H was part of the process too. But they shined as a couple and were excepted to serve God in this ministry. They see Victory and live it through God !

I will continue with this soon beautiful story  🙂  It gets ever better 🙂 Praise God !

 

To P and H  Love D and J 🙂

I Will Be Your Friend by Michael W. Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWfXLXdpfYg

God bless you,

Danny

little alterboy

21 Sunday Dec 2014

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I came upon this video which I had never seen before. Even the song was foreign to me. But it was interesting. Being an alterboy back in the day was quite an honor. I was for quite some time and was always nervous that I would mess up during mass. Which , I did often.

The carpenters little alterboy .

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=1lt87fGKaSA

God bless!

Christmas is next week 🙂

Michael Bouble
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=LNs7I9yrohU