Joy In The Journey

I am  grateful for this time of recovery from my surgeries, it’s given me an opportunity to be still and to find ways to draw closer to Jesus!! Through the pain, hardships and challenges His grace, peace, love and joy have helped me to be more mindful of keeping my focus on Him from whom all good things come!! Because when I take my focus off of Jesus and put it on the storms of life, there is no peace. It is in Him that I find peace and the strength to weather the storms.

Today is the Feast day of our Lady of Lourdes!! I’ve ben celebrating since 3:33 am. I didn't plan it that way today. But all I can say is that one of the fruits of this long recovery and challenges I’ve had from these two spine sugeries has been a beautiful opportunity for me to draw closer to Jesus and His mother. Truly it Is His grace. So this morning I woke up looked at the clock and wanted to turn around and go back to sleep but something stirred in me and so I put on my prayer routine on Hallow and snuggled back under the warm covers to listen and pray and accepted that I might just fall back asleep and I was okay with that. But that's not what happened. At the end of my first routine I pray the Rosary. And as I have been doing, I go to Lourdes Live TV and the grotto to pray the rosary and since it was the last day of the Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes I planned to do my novena there as well. Since our pilgrimages there last year I have been going Live to Lourdes and M...

" but he said to me, “ My   grace   is   sufficient   for   you ,  for   my  power  is  made perfect in weakness.” I will all the more gladly boast of  my  weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.  For  the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities;  for  when I am weak, then I am strong. "                                                                                                                 2 Corinthians 12: 9-10 I received a reminder this morning when I picked up the calendar that I have had for years called Jesus Today by Sarah Young that has a ...

  The nuggets from Sunday's Gospel from Matthew 5:13-16 and the reflections from the homily's I heard  were about wasted potential and being who I was created to be, a bold and authentic witness to the to the glory of God.  Boy do I have a long way to go, but just diving deeper into His word, ruminating on what I read and heard yesterday has been with me all day today as well.  Lots of food for thought for me for sure, and maybe some changes that I can work into my Lenten journey next week.....

  My second go to aside from the Holy Bible is "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas Kempis. There is so much wisdom in those pages!

  Today's ruminating reminded me to snuggle up next to Jesus when I'm feeling anxious, worried or afraid and soak in His peace