38°F overcast N@5mph SR@0537 SS@2021 Watch for fog

Morning Offering given

Village quiet

Coffee strong

The man up and moving

DD#5’s St Day… St Caesarea (virgin, recluse, Oranto, Italy) as well at St Isidore (Patron of Farmers) Let us give thanks and be grateful for God’s bounty and those who nurture and harvest it.

Let’s talk about Lydia (a gentile businesswoman) who came to believe in the God of Israel. She was a spiritual woman which is what drew her to the river where she met St Paul (you know the soldier Saul who persecuted/killed/hunted down Christians until the Lord confronted him) She listened to Paul and thru his speaking accepted the gospel which filled her with joy, passion, and energy. She asked for baptism, not just for herself but for her entire household. She was filled with the Holy Spirit and eventually, her home became the base of operation for St Paul’s ministry to the people of Philippi.

Make a note today about the way God has changed your life. I’m not talking just about the huge things, I’m talking the minute, things that dawned on you as you went thru your day. The blooming of flowers, the rise of the sun, the mourning dove call, that note from a friend that touched your heart, the out-of-the-blue phone call or drop-in visitor that changed how things were going for you. The compliment, that pat on the back, the little favor a child did for you. Take note of the way God has changed your life today.

Know that you are prayed for.

61°F cloudy E@11mph SR@0541 SS@2018

Morning Offering given

Village quiet

Coffee needed and good

The rest of the house sleeps

It’s been nice having the girl home for a few days. Without her, this garage sale would be a dismal failure.

Very nice conversation last evening around the bonfire. The man and I need to rest and relax around it more often.

The man has overdone it in the work department this week. We can use some down days on of these days.

John 15: 16 You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go, and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

When was the last time you checked the fruit you’ve been cultivating in your life? We’ve been promised “Fruit of the Spirit” have you been planting, cultivating, and harvesting yours with the help of the Holy Spirit? St Paul tells us about the Fruit of the Holy Spirit and the lust of the flesh, reminding us to not only walk in the Spirit but to live in the Spirit. Galatians 5:16 I say then, walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.  17 For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would.  18 But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law.  19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury,  20 Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects,  21 Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.  22 But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,  23 Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is no law.  24 And they that are Christ’s, have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences.  25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Just a bit of a reminder… do not make yourself so busy you fail to have time for prayer. When you hear the angelus bells three times a day stop and say a prayer. This will help redirect your steps onto the right path should you have gotten off the path and if the perfect nudge to reflect on how your day is going thus far.

From the sounds of things, we are to receive some rain today. We can use the moisture here.

How are things going in your neck of the woods” Inquiring minds want to know.

Have an awesome day and know you are prayed for.