60°F clear SE3mph SR0432CST SS1945CST
Morning Offering given
Village quiet & peaceful
Coffee good
Looking to be another hot one with glorious sunshine. My body doesn’t care for the hot and sweaty so much but I’m totally enjoying it.
Found a couple Shelley Shepard Gray fluff books to keep me entertained for a few days. It is hard to find books these days that don’t swear, don’t have pages filled with sex, and don’t promote bad thinking. This writer appears to be safe from that… I shall see.
In the Catholic Tradition… Enemies of the Soul… the devil, the world, and ourselves…
The Devil, once an angel of beauty had gifts superior to those of men, & was in a state of happiness. God required from him proof of his fidelity before he merited everlasting reward. Lucifer was proud of his beauty & power, believing he was equal to God and he rebelled, drawing with him into eternal ruin innumerable bands of disloyal angels. Their sin was greater than ours due to being endowed with superior intellect and their will not subject to the pull of sensitive appetites of a material body. This is why they were not given time to repent but immediately condemned. Keep in mind they are not confined they move freely taking their hell with them. They endanger in a thousand ways our eternal salvation. 1 Peter 5:8 St Augustine wrote “The devil is a mastiff in chains, he can bark but he cannot bite unless we yield to his evil suggestion & approach him. Watch & Pray.
The World, there are so many beautiful things reflecting the power and goodness of God, we stray in the midst of this passing beauty by setting our hearts upon it instead of wholly belonging to God. We become deceived and forget everything on earth passes like a shadow.
Ourselves, we sin and rebel against the soul and against God. We lust against the spirit and against flesh. (Gal 5:17) We continue to be tempted as St Paul was (2 Cor 12:7). We must resist them by staying close to God, it is fatal to lay down our arms for this lust. Striving to satisfy our desires will make us unhappy in this life and will condemn us forever in the next.
Prayers continue for HB, CD, K&SM, B&KS, GS, D&BC , JH, and the moms at cmom along with others.
Know you are prayed for
In the "Wilds of Wisconsin & Cornfields of Iowa" 
Good morning. No coffee yet. But I woke with a horrid headache that didn’t go away even after 8 hours of sleep, so I took some Excedrin. Along with a water bottle. It worked. I feel better. I like your honest description of yourself. I carry views that reflect who I am in different venues. I feel wearing my crucifix or my medal of St. Dymphna, Our Lady of Grace or Our Lady of Guadalupe say a bit of something about me. I read Mary Higgins Clark as a favorite fiction mystery writer. I don’t read a lot of fiction. I feel I am a sort of researcher. I love to read nonfiction and expand from those subjects.
Have a great day! You are pray for as well. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Tx you!
LikeLike