66°F overcast/sprinkles SR0420(0520DST) SS1947(2047DST)

Morning Offering given

“God our Father,
I come before You this morning,
thanking You for the gift of life,
for my family members, and for my friends.
Thank You for directing, protecting,
guiding, guarding, governing,
and taking care of me throughout the night.
I woke because of
Your abundant mercies and grace.“

Coffee good

Early morning run to LaCrosse with IY who is back in hospital.

Congrats to ZIA on her high school graduation. We head to IA today for her celebration

Father’s Day…
Was first celebrated in 1910, but didn’t become a national holiday until 1972.
I salute the father of my children. He has always been there for me and for them. He provided for all our needs physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Many times, he gave up his desires and dreams to fulfill his fatherly obligations. He did this without complaint. God truly blest us with this man.

Know you are prayed for.

64°F overcast SR0420(0520DST) SS1947(2047DST)

Morning Offering given

Oh, Great Spirit,
Whose voice I hear in the winds
and whose breath gives life to all the world.
Hear me! I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes
ever hold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made
and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand
the things you have taught my people.
Let me learn the lessons you have hidden
in every leaf and rock.

Help me remain calm and strong in the
face of all that comes towards me.
Help me find compassion without
empathy overwhelming me.
I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy: myself.
Make me always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes.
So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my spirit may come to you without shame.

– Translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark in 1887
https://www.xavier.edu/jesuitresource/online-resources/prayer-index/native-american

Village busy

Coffee good

Wow! What. a. week!
Today, I am taking the day off from everything, and plan to wallow in lazy activities. Today the house is clean enough, the laundry done sufficiently, that lazing on the patio or porch will not make me feel guilty. Reading a book will not bother me when I see dust motes flying in sunbeams. I have no intention of entering a car until Sunday morning.

Today is the annual auction for the Special Children’s Center in La Farge, WI. Breakfast began serving at 6:30 this morning at the Produce Auction Bldg. I cannot begin to tell you all of the good things this clinic does for Children with Special Needs. Check it out https://www.vmh.org/services/center-for-special-children/

A fraud alert on my card. It’s been shut down. I pick up the new card on Monday. Everybody Car Service… limo, taxi service out of NY is not someone I use. Be careful out there, lots of fraud happening these days.

Can we talk about being too busy? Busy as in almost every second of you daily schedule has something in it? I’m contemplating that these days. Do you think about it too? Do you wonder why you are or are not so busy that everything else takes second place? Take a down day with me, lets figure it out. As for me I’m thinking a lot of it has to do with spiritual warfare… now don’t roll your eyes, this is serious stuff. Have you ever considered that satan keeps you so busy or so slothful that he is sucking the life out of you and you can’t even put your finger on what is doing that?

Think about it. Contemplate what keeps you from even thinking about the spiritual or has you rolling your eyes.

Know you are prayed for.

57⁰F sunny. N7mph SR0420(0520DST)  SS1946(2046DST)

Morning Offering given

Village busy

No coffee

Hit a deer last night on way to IA my guesstimate 3-4000 front grill area damage. Lights still work. Need to file report online.

Got home about 5, need couple hrs sleep

Know you are prayed for.

Are practicing this morning for their show in La Crosse on the weekend.

They are breath taking! So close it feels as if you could reach out and pluck them from the sky.

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62°F WNW10mph SR0420(0520DST) SS1946(2046DST)

Morning Offering given

Village up and moving

Coffee good

In the Catholic tradition… St Anthony of Padua is today’s saint. “Tony, Tony come around something is lost and can’t be found” is the little rhyme we taught our children to say when something had been lost. Believe what you want, however… one year we hosted a family reunion at a local park. Our 3rd son J wears hearing aids, he was wearing them before we left. Late in the afternoon J came to us and said he’d lost one of his aides so off they went to find it. No luck. Since he’d been down by the water we figured it had gone into the water. Before we left I told him to look one more time but to ask St Anthony for his help. Nothing in the park. Home we went, unloaded the car, and as I went down the stairs to put things away in the basement there on the floor lay the missing aide. Say what you want, believe what you want but I know (for a fact,) that aide was not where it was found before we left.

How’s your friendship with Jesus coming along?

Know you are prayed for.

A few moments ago, I drove down a country road close to my home. Contemplating how the day had played out, how it hadn’t; my thoughts traveled on to lament, how the beautiful sunshine that had, graced the entire day had turned to rain, thunder, and moisture-filled skies. The road (in front of me) was covered with thunderheads, and the wind was picking up when I noticed faintly hovering in the clouds., a rainbow! It had to be one and I could see it from one end to the other bowing across those thunderheads passing through a spot of light. the clouds darkened as the spot of light widened and brightened. Letting the rainbow colors come out just a touch more. Suddenly the day wasn’t going to hell. I remembered God’s promise and the future became much brighter.

Regardless of what the world now tells us about the meaning of rainbows, the truth is that rainbows are a sign of God’s promise to us that he will not destroy the earth by flood again.

Recently I posted a YouTube link for the video “Is Genesis History”. Now might be a good time to watch that.

53°F SW10mph SR0420(0520DST) SS1946(2046DST)

Morning Offering given

Village sleeps

Coffee good

In the Catholic tradition, today we pray for the Polish Martyrs of WWII… 108 of them, killed by Nazis… 3 bishops, 52 priests, 26 male religious orders, 3 seminarians, 8 religious sisters, and 9 lay people. May God have mercy on their souls. John15:13

Why pray for someone who is already dead? 2 Timothy 1:16-18, along with verses from 2Maccabees, and the well-documented practice of early Christianity lends to the theological tradition of praying for the souls in purgatory to help their purification process. St Pope John Paul II said, “Praying for the souls in purgatory is the highest act of supernatural charity.”

Hoping the remaining sheer panel arrives today for the porch; along with the table umbrella. I’m thinking I will need to find at least two more sheer panels to complete the project. I’m not sure what this old mind was thinking by not ordering them to begin with.

Have a few pick-up and drop-offs to do along with workshop workers, and Bote this morning. Tonight I have a bus stop run as well. The man will be meeting his cousin today for lunch.

Must get a move on, time moves too swiftly.

Know you are prayed for.

Is Genisis History

Thanks to the man and BK.

Never would I have imagined what a difference woodchip mulch would do for a parking area.