Category: familyissues

03.01.2024

32°F S17mph SR0638 SS1752

Morning Offering given

Village peaceful

The man is up and gone, headed to Madison this morning then to Iowa for the weekend.

Coffee, I need coffee

Happy “19” Birthday, Jayden… have an awesome day!

Neuropathy Treatment is interesting. everytime I complete it I think to myself…the nutritional supplement is gross and disgusting… today, I thought meh, I can live with this. Not my favorite, but I can live with it. The light theraphy, I’m thinking, perhaps I’m foolish to do this, after all what’s this light going to do for me? All I can say is the tight socks feeling on my feet has lessoned. The electrode therapy, I laugh, cause I don’t feel it at all. But the foot soaking feels great and the calluses on my feet are softening and it can be done each morning while the rosary is being prayed. That in and of itself is real value.

Books… Esken’s The Life We Bury is worth the read, touches on Autism, alcoholism, critical thinking but most of all self healing. We all have things in our lives we don’t want people to know about, talk about, or find out… we bury it. This book takes a realistic look at how to set yourself free.

Cpap… back at it. Still hate it. Still have exceptionally dry mouth. I will live.

Back in the saddle at 0645 today. Hoping things go smoothly.

GO SEE JESUS!, he’s waiting for you. 1 Peter 5:5-7… Likewise, you younger members,* be subject to the presbyters. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for:“God opposes the proud but bestows favor on the humble.” 6 So humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. 7 Cast all your worries upon him because he cares for you. 8 Be sober and vigilant. Your opponent the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion looking for [someone] to devour.

Know you are prayed for.

01.26.2024

32°F freezing rain/fog SR0726 SS1705

Morning Offering given

Village shrouded in fog and wet

Coffee good

Chopper out and in

The man headed out to pick up at the hospital and take home

I’m headed to Boscobel this morning to drop off and back later in afternoon

Let’s talk about the Archconfraternity of Christian Mothers. https://www.archconfraternityofchristianmothers.com/our-patroness It would seem to me that this would be the right time for mothers to unite and pray for their children as well as their priests. Perhaps combining it with this. https://www.catholicapostolatecenterfeastdays.org/feast-days-and-solemnities/our-lady-of-sorrows#:~:text=These%20are%20known%20as%20the,one%20of%20the%20Seven%20Sorrows. It is time to take care of our families and clergy.

Know you are prayed for.

11.12.2023

41⁰F cloudy SSW@16mph SR0653 SS1640

Morning Offering given

Village sleeps

The man sleeps

Coffee good

New Daily Devotion “CRIB TO CROSS” meditations on the life of Christ. Angelus Press 2019. Translated from the French “De la crèche au calvaire” Messieurs Poussielque Freres Paris 1884 The Crib St. Luke 2:7. Help me, O my God, to keep my thoughts for a few moments from wandering so that I may remain recollected in Thy presence and solely intent on Thee.

Today, my brother Jeff would have turned 66. May he rest in peace.

MV Delhi musical today at 2pm. Looking forward to it.

Bible Study lesson on the Torah needs to be completed.

My plants need attention.

The boy got a dog. “CHOPPER”, some kind of hound.

Can we discuss the ugly face of alcoholism without giving offense? Without pointing fingers? Without taking offense?

  • . We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
  • 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
  • 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
  • 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
  • 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
  • 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
  • 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
  • 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
  • 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
  • 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
  • 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
  • 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Copyright 1952, 1953, 1981 by Alcoholics Anonymous Publishing

Know you are prayed for.

09.18.2023

46⁰F SSE@7mph SR0645 SS1909

Morning Offering given

Village silent

Coffee

Breakfast very good

Bow season opened with hunters testing sundown. Very hard to see camoed hunters on a dark roadside. They lived, so did I.

Monday morning is here… the to-do list is long.

Much improved this morning in the health department.

Test driven car won’t be good for what I need it for. The search continues.

Baby run last night, still waiting for outcome.

The funeral… very nice Protestant service in a Catholic church.

I keep waiting for the grief and sadness. Over the weekend, I realized I went thru that process for the loss of my entire family when my dad died years ago. I was devastated and depressed for quite some time. I hadn’t had contact since then except for superficial public moments. I grieved and accepted their deaths at that time. I tried. I failed. I confessed my faults/sins. I accepted the loss of what could have been if we hadn’t been so broken. I leave the door open.

Know you are prayed for.

The Silent Treatment

I’ve always wondered what people who chose this form of attention getting hope to accomplish.

I personally prefer the silence to having to listen to inane conversation spewing from their lips.

The silence absolved me from having to think about what they really want. Abdicates me from having to provide them with any kind of service.

Allows me complete total freedom to come and go as I please without having to vocalize my plans.

Provides me with blog fodder and amusement.

Bring on the silence!

My brother died…

Yesterday, sometime of a stroke

https://www.leonard-mullerfh.com/obituary/Jeffrey-Ogden

I am continually amazed at some things.

J was 2 yrs younger than me. We have not spoken to each other since our father died 12 yrs ago. Well, other than a nod of the head in recognition and the utterance of a first name.

Families hurt each other; sometimes, intentionally, sometimes not. 12 yrs ago, it was intentional. I took a stand cutting off contact. This was not a petty discussion his words hurt my children. To this day, it changed things for them. You do not tell adopted children they cannot come to Chistmas because they don’t deserve to be there. You can not tell adopted children they don’t belong. It does not matter that they are mostly adults it still hurts.

Then it was decided by him and my sister P to move my mother…I was not told. They distributed my mother’s belongings, and I was not told. My mother died, and I was not told. They, of course, will say we told your eldest child who, in turn, was given the duty to tell me. What kind of people tell someone’s child (alibet adult) to pass on a death message. That is something I should have done as a mother to comfort a child. Yet again, that is how they chose to do things.

I am not innocent in all this. I could have been a bigger person, and perhaps if this had been the only thing I would have been.

My deepest sympathy to his wife D and children L, B, & E as well as their families.

May he rest in peace. Pray for his soul.

JLO 11.12.57-09.08.23