07.01.2023

65⁰F cloudy N@5mph SR0524 SS2049

Morning Offering given

Village hot and dry

The man sleeps

Coffee good

Magic Carpet Spirea in full bloom

We’re halfway into 2023. It begins with 1st Saturday. For those wanting explination… https://americaneedsfatima.org/prayers/the-five-first-saturdays-devotion

Join me in praying for rain… O God, in whom we live and move and have our being, grant us sufficient rain, so that, being supplied with what sustains us in this present life, we may seek more confidently what sustains us for eternity. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen. https://catholicrurallife.org/a-prayer-for-rain/#:~:text=O%20God%2C%20in%20whom%20we,what%20sustains%20us%20for%20eternity.

Looking forward to seeing everyone tonight at Kircher’s 4th of July party.

Tomorrow, we head to Rockford to remember our cousin Teri.

And I’m sure you are sick of me talking about it nonstop, but on the 3rd 540pm, we will be viewing “The Sound of Freedom” at the Sparta theater. Join us. This movie is important.

For those we want to view the incorupt body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster in Gower, MO, there is a bus leaving the 31st from Middle Ridge. Contact Pat Slattery for details.

Know you are prayed for.

Chores…

Somehow, we must figure out a way to be “family” again.

Somehow, we must figure out a way to change family responsibilities (chores) into joyful, happy, willing moments.

None of us look forward to scrubbing toilets. Some of us dread the chore, others totally ignore it.

Somehow, we must figure out a way to make it an “act of love.”

We do dishes not for ourselves personally but for the person who will eat from it next.

We do laundry not because it is our duty but so the person who wears it next looks their best.

We clean house not for ourselves but for those who live there with us or those who come to visit. So they are comfortable.

Every responsibility is done not for ourselves but for others. Their comfort, their peace. Their joy.

Somehow, we must change our minds/hearts from drudgery to willing.

May I suggest we begin with if, on your path today, you see something that needs doing… simply do it. No fuss, no bother, no recognition. Do it for the joy someone will have when they realize it has already been done.

06.30.2023

61⁰F clear WNW@7mph SR0524 SS2049

Morning Offering given

Village quiet

The man got home this morning at 2

Coffee’s good

Really looking forward to the movie “Sound of Freedom” on the 3rd. Not a clue how many will see it, but I am hoping many. Sex trafficking children has been swept under the rug. Our children are sexualized on a daily basis by children’s clothing and groomers. Parents encourage by allowing children to wear provocative clothing. We have a crisis in this country that no one wants to acknowledge. This movie will be painful and sickening to watch, but it is so needed for us to watch to feel sickened so that our eyes are opened to what the real agenda is.

The world is losing faith in God. We have been systematically brain washed into looking the other way, into keeping ourselves too busy, into letting ourselves believe we are giving our children more than we had when in fact we have given them way less of our time, our attention, our thoughts, our faith…we have allowed them to becomes the generation that is complained about in the work force.

We have allowed television, movie stars, athletes, and schools to raise our children. We abdicated our parental authority to whomever talked a good line. We have failed to pass on the faith because that faith didn’t allow something that we wanted to do or made us feel guilty and uncomfortable or hurt our feelings.

All humans were created to long for God. We all have that “something is missing” feeling. That “hole” we keep dumping stuff into. That “missing piece” is only filled by God. Yet we continue to resist because God’s demand for total surrender is too hard, too painful, not fun, and doesn’t make me the most important.

I am as guilty as you are in this area. Pray for me in this regard.

Know you are prayed for.

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Best laid plans…

Poof gone!

A little shimmer turned out to be a loose ball joint and chewed up to the steel wires issue.

The 5th is fix date

Until then, Expedition but can’t use that till tomorrow as the man has it.

Guess I will just have to get comfortable at the sewing machine. I’m working on a project for the Cmom gathering in Oct.

06.29.2023

61⁰F hazy WNW@6mph SR0528 SS2049

Morning Offering given

Village awake

Coffee good

The man left for Iowa at 0315

Tire balancing and alignment this morning at 7

Body work estimate after that

LAX trip early afternoon.

Smoke haze from 🇨🇦 is bad again today. Hanging in the valleys like fog.

Praying for rain. Grass is starting to turn brown. Berries are small. Some have started cutting 2nd crop of hay. Windrows don’t seem as full. Tree leaves have started to turn over.

How’s the faith life? Succulent or parched?

Know you are prayed for.

06.28.2023

58⁰F cloudy SSE@13mph SR0523 SS2049

Morning Offering given

Village waking

Coffee good

The man awake

Hibiscus continues to bloom. The clematis vine does, too.

Happy Anniversary, Dennis & Blanca! Have an awesome day.

Information on hit & run vehicle sent to the sheriff’s office.

Liking the new to me birdbath. A giveaway from the neighbor.

I have sucker white roses, should anyone want to have one, bring your shovel and container.

Wautoma today for me. Madison for the man.

Know you are prayed for.