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

62°F clouds N6mph SR0431CST SS1945CST

Morning Offering given

Village quiet

NO coffee sigh

Slept fitfully

Looks like we’re going to get some hot ones over the next few days.

In the Catholic Tradition let’s talk about quality of attraction. We all have an attractive side which can draw others toward good or toward evil. Behaviour, countenance, and conversation reflect your inner spirit. What quality of attraction do you possess? How do you behave in Mass? What about at home? Do you promote peace and harmony by good example? Do you carry the good odour of Christ (the fragrance of your interior holiness) with you?

Know you are prayed for

60°F NE3mph SR0430CST SS1946CST

Morning Offering given

Village waking

Coffee good

The man off to Marian at 0300

Looking forward to an easy day today. The plan is to find a new book at the library when it opens and read it after I do a couple pick up and drop offs. Well and of course get the vacuuming, laundry, office picked up.

In the Catholic Tradition, lets look at vanity…
Webster— excessive pride in or admiration of one’s own appearance or achievements.
Church— a lesser sin that is a root of pride and an inordinate desire for external glory. An act of trying to gain recognition or respect for something that is not rightfully deserved, such as human prise or physical beauty
Scripture– Ecclesiastes 1:1-2, 2:1, 11, 15, 21, 4:4, 5:10, 6:2; Jeremiah 2:5, 4:30; Proverbs 31:30; Psalms 39:5-6, 119:37; Romans 12:2; 1 Samuel 16:7; 1Timothy 4:8; and Galatians 5:16-26
Vanity will destroy whatever is good in our actions and make them useless in the sight of God. It robs good actions of all merit when they are done to make yourself look good. Apostle of the Gentiles, St Paul, said in 2 Corinthians 12:11 I have become foolish; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you. For I have been nothing less than those who claim to be above the measure of Apostles, even though I am nothing.

Know you are prayed for.

64°F cloudy WSW5mph SR0429CST SS1946CST

Morning Offering given

Village waking

Coffee good

Weekend was good. Now it’s time to get down to business. Looking like my day will be steady.

Did I tell you my burning barrel is up and functioning? I’m loving it! No more wondering what will happen to all the papers that have private information on/in them. Let the sorting begin.

In the Catholic Tradition… falling into sin… Proverbs 24:16, 1 John 1:8
thoughts, speech, actions, inactions, omission, weakness, impatience, premeditated malice…
So we watch, avoid, pray… Matt. 26:41, Luke 18:1,
Virtue is necessary for everyone not just anchorite. Matt 11:12
When you realize you have sinned avoid… hardness of heart (indifference) and excessive anxiety (discouragement and loss of confidence)… God is merciful. Ecclus 5:4-5, Luke 15:18,
No matter how grave or numerous our sins the mercy of God is infinite. He is waiting for us to come to him. Our fall can humble us and help us realize we are incapable of infinite good on our own. Let us go to him humbly and penitently, trusting he will give us the kiss of peace and forgiveness.

Know you are prayed for.

60⁰F overcast SSW10mph SR0429CST SS1947CST

Morning Offering given

Village sleeps

Coffee good

On the porch this morning, listening to the birds sing their morning offering. 

Slept like a log. 

Good to see Sessi and Kris yesterday in Madison. They made it home safely around 0100. 

Old expedition has a for sale sign on it.  Already got a call.

The man put the new brakes in the wheelchair van. 

Nice to meet Silver’s son Lonnie yesterday.

Need to:

pack things up from the garage sale and get them out of here. 

get the boy’s stuff to the garage    storage area.

hanging plants need watering.

In the Catholic tradition… go to Mass

Know you are prayed for

58°F NW2mph SR0428(0528DST) SS1947(2047DST)

Morning Offering given

Village

In the Catholic tradition… 1st Saturday… https://www.catholic.com/qa/first-saturday-devotion-requirements

The hand… classic carpal tunnel symptoms… results to primary to discuss options.

River Link… ugh… see other post

IF… still practicing…

NT… holding

I am in a funk… huge and blue… not much help, am I to me or you.  I’m quite certain I am not the only one who feels this way.  Most days are one foot in front of the other beginning to end.  It’s the never-ending rain, I’m sure.

Prayers going up for JH (husband’s 1st cousin), who took a tumble off the feedbunker. Lot of injuries. In ICU at University Hosp. IA City

Prayers for H’s(cmom friend) C, who had heart attack.

Prayers for my cmom friends who are in Beryl’s path

Safe travel for S  & C M while they travel from OK to WI to deliver rescue dogs.

Rain rain go away come again some other day.

Know you are prayed for

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-07/vigano-excommunicated-for-schism.html

61°F overcast NW9mph SR0427(0527DST) SS1947(2047DST)

Morning Offering given

Village soggy

Coffee good

More rain it seems is on the way. Yesterday’s drive was thru a monsoon again. Wipers on high with little visibility even then. Widespread as well, from my home to Eastern IA and into MN. While a friend in Southern IA called to say they were finally getting rain and were grateful I was thinking here we go again, creeks bank full, ditches with rushing water, cattle tanks filled to overflow. For all this I give thanks… I remember last year’s dryness.

EMC scheduled for 0815 this morning. Not a clue as to how long this will take. Nail beds still purple, O2 level still in 90s. Hope all moves right along.

Lots of driving yesterday, got home the first time at 0300, slept a bit, left again about 0700. Returned home around 1500, slept a bit again and left home around 1900 and arrived home again about 2330. I think I told you about hitting a deer a while back. This was the weekend to make the ins deductible so that it didn’t have to come out of the budget. I was successful. One would think I would stop this tight-fistedness but I’m not willing to do that and miss out on my fun stuff. Haha, my watch says my stress level is high, go figure.

In the Catholic tradition… 1st Friday… https://hfpmc.org/prayers-devotions/first-fridays

Let’s look at all those health things on the market. They are not for a 69 yr old overweight woman with joint and motion issues who leads a sedentary life. I certainly DO NOT want to watch a video with a 20 something anorexic body about what I should be doing, nor do I want to hear anything about yoga unless it is to hear about how it is a doorway for demons. Which of course no one is going to show you that. Nor do I want to be treated as if I am incapable of understanding the english language due to dementia issue. What is happening here is someone is making money on all this crap and I would be spending money. Nope, not going to happen.

Know you are prayed for.

76°F SE8mph SR0426(0526DST) SS1948(2048DST)

Morning Offering given on the fly

Village sleeping when I left and when I returned

Caught 3 in AM and 3 in PM on the run again at 1900

Weather was great for the most part. Caught rain on the way back from IA

Don’t miss listening to Rachel Holt’s “I was gonna Be” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JECbfKi90rA

Know you are prayed for

We Catholics are supposed to be moral realists. We do not determine what shall be right or wrong. We recognize what is right or wrong, regardless of what anybody thinks about it.

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