Joy In The Journey

Musings "On the Passion of Christ" According to the Four Evangelists by Thomas Kempis I am loving my walk this Lent with this book.  Today was about the betray of Jesus by Judas in the Garden of Gethsemane.  And a powerful reminder to me of the model Jesus has given me in bearing with my trials and with those who have betrayed, slandered and hurt me and the ones I love.  The take away for me today is praying for greater patience, His patience and His grace to have the desire to endure even greater trials for love of Jesus.

  Musings "On the Passion of Christ" According to the Four Evangelists by Thomas Kempis I received so many nuggets of wisdom in today's chapter.  Trust, surrender seeking the Lord in all things and striving to follow His Will.  I am still mulling over it and I'm praying for His grace to lead me and help me follow and to redirect my path when I veer off course.  

  Musings "On the Passion of Christ" According to the Four Evangelists by Thomas Kempis My take away from today's chapter is that Jesus experienced sorrow and fear.  He is good Shepherd and in this way, he is modeling a way for us to follow Him in every step of our sorrows, trials, anxiety and whatever we come up against, to dive deeper into His great love for us, so that I and we can find a healing remedy for our souls.

  It's Ash Wednesday and this year I am praying for a consistent walk through these 40 days! I am reading the " On the Passion of Christ " by Thomas A, Kempis and already in the first chapter I am convicted of how much I need to ask Jesus to instill the virtue of meekness in my heart in greater abundance. Without Jesus's grace, His peace, His love, His joy, I cannot have true peace of heart and soul and love as He loved. So day 1 and found my first virtue to work on - Meekness. And I was also reminded me to be more consistent in praying the Hearts Rosary Prayer where on the Our Father beads we ask " Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like Your Heart, and have mercy on me ." My friends, I have learned and am learning still on my journey to ask, to seek and I will find. Last year I started out reading this book and I got a few chapters in and stopped so I was committing myself to start and finish it this Lent . Last year I didn...

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

  Ruminating today on what I heard on Hallow this morning about St. Magdalena Son So-Byok, a Korean mother and martyr who declared "My life is not mine, I cannot deny my God to save my life" and has also been quoted as saying “If I have to die for God, who decides life and death, I will gladly die. But I cannot betray him”.

  Nothing like  an major snow storm to start my day in the wee hours of the morning Anyone else having a busy snow day….in my work there is no such thing so I got an early jump on the day and now I’m taking some time to share what I needed to hear to slow my roll, before I head back into snow day madness!! Maybe someone else needs to hear it to!!

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