49⁰F N@7mph SR0644 SS1909
Morning Offering given
Village quiet
The man sleeps
Coffee good
Congestion has lessened, cough is productive, and ears are feeling better. I’m still staying home. No one else needs the cold. Although the old saying was it won’t get better till you give it away. Fiddlesticks to that.
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Have a Blest day.
Know you are prayed for y e
Lightnin flashing all around
Lord, I hear your message as I stand on this parched ground
Only thru your mercy do the dead arise.
May we let your grace revive us, bring us to our knees
As the gentle pitter patter. Of the falling rain
Washes from our soul all fear of your control.
Once upon a time, the devil appeared to three monks and said: If he gave you power to change something from the past, what would you change?
The first of them had great apostolic fervor, and he answered, “I would prevent you from making Adam and Eve fall into sin, so that mankind could not part ways from God.”
The second of them was a man full of mercy and said to him, “I would hinder you from God and condemn yourself forever.”
The third of them was the simplest and, instead of answering the tempter, he fell on his knees, made the sign of the cross and prayed saying, “Lord, deliver me from the devil of what could have been and was not.”
The devil, giving a loud scream and trembling in pain, flew away.
The other two, astonished, said to him, “Brother, why did you react like that?” “. He answered them:
“First of all, because we must NEVER DIALOGUE with the enemy.” Secondly, because there is no power in this world that can CHANGE the past. Third place, because Satan’s interest was not that we test our VIRTUE, but that, stuck in the PAST, we neglect the present, because it is the only time in which God gives us His grace and we can cooperate with it to FULFILL His will. Of all the demons, the one that traps men the most and prevents them from being happy is the one that CAN BE AND WASN’T. The past is left to God’s Mercy and the future to His Providence. Only the present is in our hands.”
58⁰F NNE@7mph SR0633 SS1920
Morning Offering given
Village quiet
Coffee excellent
The man sleeps
Pray for the repose of souls for those lost in the terrorist attack 09.11.2001. May they rest in peace.
The girl and her husband return home today. I hope they enjoyed their time here as much as we enjoyed them being here. We’ll see them again in a few weeks down there.
Fall is almost upon us (23rd). I look forward to winding down the business while enjoying the rich colors and cooler weather of Autumn 🍂
I’m looking forward to the Lutifisk Supper, to eating lefsa, and seeing family at the end of the month.
It is time to reflect on life. To clean out the closets and drawers of the things in the past that should have been tossed out ages ago.
Know you are prayed for.
See it
If for no other reason than to remind yourself, satan is real and working here on earth.
It got me to thinking and defining things.
It’s being disciplined to do the Godly even if we might not feel like it. Do the Godly until your heart catches up. Tenacious means to keep a firm hold of something. To be tenacious in our faith, we must keep a firm hold of our faith every day in all situations. We cannot become distracted.
In July 2021, Jacob Tanner (an evangelical) wrote, “Christians are commanded to redeem the time” (Eph. 5:16), “be instant to always preach the Gospel” (2 Tim. 4:2), “continually work to take every thought captive to Christ” (2 Cor. 10:5) “and pursue peace and holiness” (Heb. 12:4). “Far from being a calling to laziness, the Christian is called by Christ to continually be at work towards holiness. In fact, the command to pursue holiness is exactly like the command to “be holy as I am holy” (1 Peter 1:16). It is a command for active obedience in the life of the Christian. While this should never be understood as a prerequisite for salvation, nor as a requirement to keep salvation, the truth is that the one who loves Christ will keep His commandments (John 15:14) as evidence of the salvation that has been experienced. As Hebrews 12:4 also says, without holiness, no one will see the Lord. Thus, the Christian is both shown to rest in the positional holiness of Christ and encouraged to pursue practical holiness by the power of the Holy Spirit. This also means the Christian must actively fight for holiness by constantly putting sin to death.”
JT and I (although we attend different churches, we are both Christian) agree on this.
I had never considered the below:
Patience can be tenacious. In Psalm 31:24 we learn to “Be strong and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!” The harvest does not happen instantly as anything worth doing takes time. Galatians 6:9 says “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up”
Frankly, previously tenacity always seemed to be somewhat of a negative.
I am grateful to my s-i-l for enlightenment.
68⁰F WNW@15mph SR0632 SS1929
Morning Offering given
Village peaceful
Coffee excellent!
The man sleeps
For those who don’t know me… I am a sassy, opinionated 68 yr old mother to 11 with 22 gchildren (some living, some not). Some married, some not. Some with children, some without. We are Irish, Dutch, English, Scotch, Norwegian, Swede, Kenyon, Cherokee, Blackfoot Sioux, & Mexican… we are proud of our heritage… we are AMERICAN.
We are CATHOLIC. Some practicing, some not, and some fallen away. But once you are, you are, and there is responsibility regardless of whether you recognize that or not. I can not save my children. All I can do is pray for them and remind them they made a promise to God at confirmation. The rest is up to God.
Scripture reminds us that following Christ will not be easy. Our way will be strewn with obstacles and hardships. It tells us to be prepared and to rely on God for all we will need to get through it. Scriptures tell us not to be afraid that we are not alone. It tells us to do what is right even if you stand alone to do that.
Know you are prayed for.
74⁰F S@17mph SR0631 SS1931
Morning Offering given
Village peaceful.
Sultry already
Coffee good
The man sleeps
Rode the train last night (again) in my dreams. I have no clue where I was going or, for that matter, why I was headed there. I made this same trip last week, in my dreams. I was not afraid, but the tone of the ride was perilous. Others were definitely afraid, some cowering. I sat quietly watching the scenery pass by in my bonnet and Sunday dress. We are North bound, the track is windy and old. Sometimes, we come to almost a complete stop. The going is slow. I can hear someone telling the ticket taker that this section of track doesn’t exist. I don’t understand why he would say that because it obviously did. We were on it. I knew that just ahead, we would break out of the trees, the land would be flat, and the sky would be beautiful. I also knew I would wake up before we reached our destination in my own bed.
Funny how the mind works.
Tuesday devotions… are the day to honor the Holy Face of Jesus. Blessed Maria Pierina was told by Jesus. “I firmly wish that My Face reflecting the intimate pains of My Soul, the suffering and love of My Heart, be more honored,”
I am fortunate to be a member of the Catholic Church. Each day, there are opportunities to know Jesus more fully.
Sundays are little Easters
Mondays are devoted to the Holy Spirit
Wednesdays to St Joseph
Thursdays to the Last Supper and on 1st Thursday the act of reparation.
Friday are for penance and 1st Fridays for the Sacred Heart of Jesus. “In the excess of the mercy of My Heart, I promise you that My all powerful love will grant to all those who will receive Communion on the First Fridays, for nine consecutive months, the grace of final repentance: they will not die in My displeasure, nor without receiving the sacraments; and My Heart will be their secure refuge in that last hour.”
We have grown lax in teaching these devotions to our children. In return for our sloth/or acedia in this area of our faith, hearts have grown luke warm to tepid. PROVERBS 16:18.
Jesus invites us to take up his cross daily LUKE 9:23. These devotions help us do that.
Know you are prayed for.
This is what we are about:
We plant seeds
that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted,
knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations
that will need further development.
We provide yeast
that produces effects beyond
our capabilities.
We cannot do everything
there is a sense of liberation
in realizing that.
This enables us to do something
to do it very well.
It may be incomplete,
but it is a beginning,
a step along the way,
an opportunity for God’s grace
to enter
and do the rest.
We may never see the end results,
but that is the difference between
the master builder
and the worker.
We are the workers,
not master builders,
ministers,
not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future
not our own.
45⁰F clear SSE@9mph SR0645 SS1940
Morning Offering given
Village Chilly
Coffee good
49 years we celebrate today
I’d do it again in a heartbeat
It all comes down to the graces received in our sacramental marriage. We by no means had 49 years of marital bliss. We had 49 years of the Holy Ghost working on our hearts and minds. 49 years of trying to put the other first. 49 yrs of working thru the hard stuff. 49 years of receiving unconditional love from each other. 49 yrs of praying for each other.
Example: Sunday… (him) Jesus, I pray for my wife. Each day, teach me how to lay down my life for her and live in a way that glorifies you and her. Keep her healthy lord and allow me to create space for her emotional, mental, and spiritual growth in a way that aides her health. Teach me how to build her up rather than break her down. I love you, God. Help me to love her the way you love the church. Amen. (Me) Blessed Mother, help my husband and I to be more and more committed to you and your holy Catholic church. Please help us to grow in faith and to pass that faith onto our children. May it permeate every aspect of our life, so there is no question Who we put first in our lives so our children see this and learn from it. Thank you for our faith. May we never take it for granted. Amen.
So far, it works, and by the grace of God, it will continue to work.
Know you are prayed for.
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