First off , thankyou for your prayers for our friend Helen. She is home recouperating from her eye surgery and is face down during this long process. She will know in two weeks if in fact she has vision in that eye. Janet spoke to her yesterday and she was up beat and beautiful as always.   You know why ?  Nothing is that big a deal when you realize that Gods got it. Its pretty simple.

On a beautiful note her husband and our dear friend Deacon Paul was invited to serve at the papal mass in NY this month. What a blessing. 🙂 I will ask him to take all of our prayers and needS to the cross of the alter that day. AMEN.

This morning I woke up and got going. I put the diswasher on and went about my routine. I began my morning prayer and heard a noise that brought me to the opposite end of the house. as I looked out at the painters who arrived next door I heard water and thought what is that ? Well, I needed one of these!  OMG

okay, okay I didn’t need a canoe but thats  what I told the repair man and I got a loud chuckle  out of him. lol  I also said that I had a water current in my kitchen.

My diswasher malfunctioned and my kitchen floor had water all over it. Thank God my wife did a couple of  loads of towels that were fluffy and folded and ready to be put away. My daughters were on their way to work and jumped into action swabbing the deck and drying the floor. we will wait to see what damage may be done to the harwood from water underneath. I called the insurance company. all of my appliances are under a service contract so no worries about any damage. The repair man for the appliance is scheduled to come out also.

I made myself another cup of coffee and called my wife just to let her know everything was okay in case she got a cryptic message from my kids like… FLOOD or Dads recliner is totaled.   lol

She said how can you laugh? I said honey what can you do? My kids were present as I spoke to the appliance place and their insurance company. I said to them its life so we need to just fix things thats all. We don’t know what can come our ways daily. but its only stuff. its not that important.

Finally, A very good childhood friend that I will call the Florida connection responded to my blog last week. I feature many many artists and their music on my blog and Facebook daily.  Many of which are Christian and some are not. Music is healing in my belief system. It is throught the bible and human history.  When I blog it is after prayer and I am very much directed by the Holy Spirit to things many times that I have not seen or heard before.

My friend is involved with his parish and is a Eucharistic minister. Bill commented on how much he likes Michael W. Smith and his music after he read the blog and heard the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCflgm5HtuA

Bill sent another email to me to listen to a song that he loved by Michael W. Smith. Its called all is well.

I listened to it today after the flood and after morning prayer and it is beautiful.

It is a Christmas song, but I truely mean this it is a song for everyday life. Christmas is everyday to me because every morning that that I wake  is a blessing from God and it serves  as a reminder that Jesus has been born in order that we be allowed life with hope of eternity.

So yes, we are heading towards the historical date of Dec 25th ( Christs birth to save humanity.) I love the Advent Season and the Christmas trappings as much as the next guy.  But the real importance is not lost on me.

I have stared down death with a terminal illness and do not know what tomorrow will bring personally. I do however know that my tomorrows are full of hope, and love of my God, family and my friends so how awesome is that ! 🙂

 We could also be living Christmas of the heart daily. If we choose to.

So,

In closing, lets enjoy the day regardless of what comes our way. Gods got it.   

God Bless You All. 🙂

Danny

 Thanks Billy

In this life the challenges that we face can make us into hostages. We go negative and get fearful. That is exactly how I have found myself in the past as recently as today.

Faith can move mountains. We need to love ourselves.  It is only  then that we can see God and the hope in this life.

This song today is one that I had never heard before and it was perfect for todays writing. Its about love. In this case cutting myself slack but pushing through my daily life situation to bring about a change that I can see but need to bring to fruition.

Here is the song….,

We can move mountains personally because GOD loves us and has faith in us too. 

Nat King Cole Faithful.

Today, I overslept. I got up and got moving . I headed to my dads and spent  some beautiful time with him. He’s awesome. I said to my dad as I left, I think that I might stop and walk the track on my way home. My dad cautioned me to be careful. I assured him that I would be.

An inner battle began to wage as I rolled out of my dads driveway.  Oh, just go home. Your tired and have being doing too much lately I thought to myself. As, I drove home I resigned myself to the fact that I was going home and then it happened. I saw the track and made a right into the parking lot. The track was empty and I said I am going to walk. I shut off the car and took a deep breathe. I was tempted to start the car and leave But, I did not.

I call my car a geriatric geloppy lol. I have my cain in the front seat, my walker in the back seat and my wheelchair in the trunk. So, no matter how I am feeling I have no excuse to stay on the sideline. Life is for the living.   🙂 And, I am going to go for the gusto as they say. !

So, anyways, I was losing energy very quickly. I got out of the car,opened the rear door and got the walker out. I opened it up with my one hand and pushed it and lifted it up onto the sidewalk. I then got up on the sidewalk useing my front hood as a support to lean on. Once up on the sidewalk I strapped my arm onto the walker for safety as I walked the 100 foot or so sidewalk to the track gate. Once I was in that gate I took my hand out of the strap and put the walker against the track fence. I walked with the fence by my right side with the fence as my safety net. I was just soaking up the beauty of the day. I said, thank you for my life to God as I willed my body forward. i looked down the length of the track and thought to myself I can’t do it today. I turned my head to see my car it looked so far away. So, I turned forward once again and headed down the track holding the fence. I began to pray the Our Father , Hail Mary, and the Glory Be in repetition. My version of praise and worship to God for his goodness in my life. After some time I was in the final stretch and I was very tired. I stopped when I got back to my walker . I leaned on the fence and watched some young kids play soccer on the next field and 4 young boys were playing basketball in the far off distance.

The sun was shining , the breeze was so soft and gentle. the birds were flying around. It was so peaceful. I began to remember childhood memories of Bishop field in Arlington. I could picture the playground full of kids and the swings were swinging with 7 or 8 kids riding them. I could hear the sqeaking and squeeling  that they made. It was a beautiful and restorative memory for me. I love life even in its smallest detail.

Then, I became aware that my legs wanted to buckle so I qiuickly strapped on my walker to bare my weight. I began the slow 100 foot journey back to my car. I took my time and took breaks and made it safely back to the car.

The problems that I am experiencing with the walking is really my own fault.I was angry one day and was walking so fast that my body reacted adversely and I almost fell.

The mind can if you let it criple you with fear . So, we need to work on that nasty emotion called fear and push through it. If you have a bad day you donnot become a failure. you just remain a human 🙂The key is to get up and try again. One day you will take 0ne step then two and you will be on your way  towards your own personal victory.

This song reminds me of my situation that I caused with fear of falling. But, I need to let the Faith of my healing God to rain down on me. I will get there because God is my victory. 🙂 He yours too.

I have caused some of my own sorrow and pain.

God Bless You all.

Danny