51°F clear S@15mph Sunrise @ 0622 Red Flag conditions 1100 to 2000

Morning Offering given

Village sleeps

Coffee bold, hot, & black, loving it

End of week is here

Thank you to those who extended birthday greetings. It was good to hear from you. If genetics run true, I have about 20 more years to give my opinions in the mornings… well actually any time of day.

From the sound of things, it looks like cooler temps are headed our way along with some rain and possibly snow by Monday. Normal temps for this neck of the woods.

I have a couple personal projects to complete. Hope to accomplish that by Monday.

Today is Friday within the Octave of Easter…we are still in the Easter season and will be until Pentecost on the 28th of May. The secular world has already moved past Easter and is focusing on Mother’s Day. Let’s focus on Divine Mercy Sunday the 16th of April.

On the 17th (Canadian feast day) let’s focus on St Kateri Tekakwitha. Sometimes our human desire for all things beautiful obscures things. Here in America, we celebrate her on the 14th of July. Kateri left America and moved to Canada because she refused to marry and was being given grief over that decision. She is the patroness of ecology and the environment, people in exile and Native Americans.

Remembering my G’daughter Charity who was killed in Kenya this date in 2022. May she rest in peace. St Lydwina (feast day today) patroness of young people whose careers are cut short pray for her.

Know you are prayed for.

38°F overcast E@20mph

Morning Offering given

Village quiet

Coffee passable

Today in WI we vote for supreme court judge. IMNSHO the only choice is Daniel Kelly the other person way too “woke” and liberal for me. Aside from that, way too much money is being thrown around on this election; as well as too many ugly/insinuating commercials, etc. WI needs to look at its laws and make changes. It is time to look at campaign rules and regulations and make changes there as well.

Remembering James F.H born on this day in 1881 may he RIP

The man is in IA this week.

My schedule is fairly easy.

Copywork completed

Beginning a new book today. Hopefully, it will be a good one. Need to run the finished ones back to the library when I go to vote this morning.

Let’s look at Peter & Judas today. Peter betrayed our Lord by denying he knew him. Judas betrayed our Lord by selling him out for monetary gain. Peter wept when he realized what he had done, he accepted Christ’s mercy and kept the faith. Judas realized what he did was wrong, and returned his monetary gain, but instead of seeking Christ’s mercy he ran away and killed himself. So they both betrayed Christ, both knew they had sinned, one sought mercy, and the other gave into despair killing himself. I have pondered this part of scripture for many years. Again and again I return to it wondering and thinking if only Judas…

But you see, each of us has to make that decision. Each of us must say our own “YES” to Christ and his mercy. It is not in anyone else’s hands. Each of us must make the decision to follow Christ, practice our faith, and become an intimate friend of Christ to reach eternal life. It is not enough to recognize we shoulda, coulda. We must repent, act, and sustain. Time is short.

Know you are prayed for.

23°F clouds NNW@7mph

Morning Offering given

Village quiet

Coffee, should have been tea as first choice

The man still sleeps, glad for that, once again he did too much yesterday

Typical Monday happening for me today. Hope to be home by 5 or sooner. Heard Madison got a 10″ snow dump, weatherman says snow is possible here Tuesday, hopefully it will go around us,my tulips are coming up and I’d love to see them this year.

The photo below are daffodils for my friend Mary, who mentioned them a while back.

Happy Birthday to my eldest son, Michael. WOW! that went by fast…see you later in the week.

Today in scripture, we reading about Jesus writing in the dirt. John 8:8…lots of speculation about what exactly he did write that caused all those stone throwers to drop them and disappear. My focus is what this did for Mary Magdalene. There she was, standing with a circle of holy men wanting to throw stones at her. Jesus steps into her life, and she stands waiting for condemnation… poof! …that is all it takes… Jesus makes a difference. After, mind you, after the threat of death has left, Jesus then says, “sin no more.” Simply stop doing what you were doing, and from this day forward, don’t do it again.

All she had to do was “stop” the sin period. Start a new way of living. She already knew it would be hard. She already knew the road ahead would take time, energy, pain, heartache, and more. She made one step after another moving forward with Jesus to make that change. She didn’t deny she had a past, she didn’t pretend the past wasn’t there. She simply moved forward. That was/is faith. Each of us can do this with our focus on Christ.

Know you are prayed for.