10.06.2025

53°F raining NNW7mph SR0706(0606) SS1834(1734)

Morning Offering given

Village damp

Coffee good

Bl. Isidore of St Joseph (De Loor) demonstrated to us the value of serving community in church, society, and all that we do. He never let his cancer limit his work for others.

Read Ezekiel 5
RIAY Day 279: The Joyful Mysteries

Morning! Another beautiful day is in the making; rain or shine, it will be just what we need. Fall colors continue to make themselves known. Corn and beans are being removed from the fields. Deer are running rampant across fields and roadways. Birds are heading south. Flowerbeds are beginning to shed their seeds, looking weary and faded. Fall is giving its last show before the earth shuts down to rest for the winter. I am looking forward to the fallow time. The time we use to take stock in the seasons that have just passed and make plans for the season that will greet us again. The time to slow down, rest, recoup, reenergize, and repair our heart, mind, and body. A time to lie fallow, soaking in all that you can, from the giver of nourishment. We humans have a tendency to turn our attention away from what our body/mind needs to simply keep running. We exhaust ourselves into oblivion, failing to recognize that the difficulties we are experiencing are due to our failing to take care and replenish ourselves. I recall being told as a child, “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.” As an adult, I looked for this verse but only found it in Bibles that had been translated into everyday language. Most often, Proverbs 16:26-29 is cited. However, in the translation of scripture I use (DRA/NAB), it cites Proverbs 16:26 as saying “The appetite of workers works for them, for their mouths urge them on.” The resource “bible gateway” search engine sticks on the living bible translation when you query the DRA or NAB, so be sure to click on the link for the right scripture version. Of course, this now makes me wonder what other verses the engine sticks to. So, I suggest that if you are Catholic (or not), use the quote from the USCCB bible search engine. THUS far, there cannot be found “idle hands are the devil’s workshop,” so my advice to you is use the fallow time to replenish and renew your soul.

Know you are prayed for.