Ten Minute Meditation Sr. Patricia Proctor Spokane, Washington Take a moment to visit your beautiful garden. Look at the flowers. Are there any new ones blooming today? Can you hear the waterfall over to the side? Listen to the birds singing in the trees. Spend a few minutes thinking what a beautiful and restful place this is. Now think of someone that you are having difficulty with today or in your past. When you have the person in mind, notice that Jesus is walking towards you and He is talking to that difficult person in your life. It actually looks as if He is enjoying being with your problematic person! Oh my goodness! How could that be? Now the difficult person is walking out of the garden. Your garden! Jesus continues to walk towards you. He smiles at you and you know He is glad to see you and wants to spend time with you. Did you stop breathing for a few seconds when you saw Jesus with this difficult person? Let your breath out now...slowly and easily. It's okay that Jesus loves you and the difficult person in your life as well. Talk with Jesus about this or simply let it be and just sit in the garden quietly. Healing comes when we see someone in a new light--even those we have difficulty with. Prayer when time is completed: Jesus, thank you for opening my heart to see others as you see them. Thank you for loving all people, even those I find difficulty in loving. Amen.

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Joy from Meditation Rejoice in Me by Msgr. David E. Rosage Healer Redeemer Psalm 103:3-4 He pardons all your iniquities, he heals all your ills. He redeems your life from destruction, he crowns you with kindness and compassion. Jesus became incarnate in our world in order to forgive our sinfulness, to heal us in every area of our brokenness. He took our human nature with all its physical, intellectual, and psychological limitations so that he might redeem us and give us the capacity to receive his divine life dwelling within us. Jesus himself affirmed his mission: "I have come to call sinners, not the self-righteous." (Mk 2:2:17)

"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in
the shadow of the Almighty." ( Psalm 91:1 NIV)

You just went out and got your mail and you are reading
it when there is a knock at the door. Who is there you
wonder! You look out and do not see a car so you think it
is a salesman. You go to the door with an attitude ready
to say we are not interested. However as you get to the
door you notice someone with long hair and in a robe, and
you think it is a flower child asking for money and passing
out flowers.

When you open the door you see a man standing at the
door. He has a beard and long hair but he has a gentleness
about him and you begin to speak to him. You ask "Can I
help you? " He answers "How can I help you?" It is then that
you realize who this is. It is not just some ordinary man. This
is Jesus!!

He says he would like to come in and talk with you awhile?
How do you react? Do you stutter and say "Well not right
now as my house is a mess and I would like to clean it
up first." He says he wants to help you. You let him in but
ask him not to go into a certain room because it is your junk
room and there is nothing in there but junk! He says " but I
want to see and live in all of your house", but you insist no
not that room. Being the gentlemen that he is he sits down
in your living room and tells you he has been watching you
for many years and has helped you through many situations.

You see our lives are like that. Jesus wants to come in and
we say but Lord I want to clean up first, or Lord you can
come in but only part ways as I have things you do not need
to see.

My friend no matter what, Jesus knows your life. He knows all
of the dark junk rooms of your life and he does not just want
part of your life but he wants all of it and he will cleanse you.

Too many of us have things we want to hide or hang onto, but
Jesus is there. He has already seen all of the dark rooms in our
lives and if we will let him he will clean them for us.

 

 

 

 

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I didn’t have a good day yesterday, I was quite down for no reason at all just felt rotten, but I ended up doing my spiritual exercises and empty chair exercise and I did feel better, once I brought the lord into the problem I was dealing with I felt better, I have to learn Rome was not built in a day but one hour to one minute a day will get me though and the biggest lesion I have learnt in the last few weeks is I have to be gentle with my self….it is something I have to be aware of every day of my life. And no matter how bad today looks the sun will shine again tomorrow…

 

Good news today I went for my weigh in with weight watches and to my surprise I lost 2.1kg I am so proud of my self…and I feel so happy that now I know I can lose the weight and the meeting is wonderful to attend and very much supported and we are all in the same boat…so I am doing well and this I know I will continue to do as I am positive to just show that specialist I can lose it! I know I will have bad days but this is part of it ….and yes I am relishing it is a slow process but worth while..

 

It is a beautiful day here today, and it is about 23deg..Summer shirts on, a good day to go walking and take the dog…well till later thank you for you support love and hugs to every one..

 

                                                                    

                                                                            

 

One Solitary Life

Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty. Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher.

He never owned a home. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put His foot inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place He was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself...

While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. One of them denied Him. He was turned over to His enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves. While He was dying His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth – His coat. When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.

Nineteen long centuries have come and gone, and today He is a centerpiece of the human race and leader of the column of progress.

I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that were ever built; all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that one solitary life.

This essay was adapted from a sermon by Dr James Allan Francis in “The Real Jesus and Other Sermons” © 1926 by the Judson Press of Philadelphia (pp 123-124 titled “Arise Sir Knight!”). If you are interested, you can read the original version .

A young man was getting ready to graduate college. For
many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's
showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told
him that was all he wanted.

As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited
signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the
morning of his graduation his father called him into his private
study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine
son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son
a beautiful wrapped gift box.

Curious, but somewhat disappointed the young man
opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible. Angrily,
he raised his voice at his father and said, "With all your money you
give me a Bible?" and stormed out of the house, leaving the holy
book.

Many years passed and the young man was very successful in
business.
He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realized his
father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to him. He
had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make
arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had
passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He
needed to come home immediately and take care things.
When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and
regret filled his heart.

He began to search his father's important papers and
saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With
tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. As he
read those words, a car key dropped from an envelope
taped behind the Bible.
It had a tag with the dealer's name, the same dealer who had the
sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation,
and the words...PAID IN FULL.

How many times do we miss God's blessings because they are not
packaged as we expected?

O glorious St. Michael, guardian and defender of the Church of Jesus Christ, come to the assistance of this Church, against which the powers of hell are unchained. Guard the Pope with special care, and obtain the graces he desires for the Church. O glorious archangel Michael, watch over us during life; defend us against the assaults of the demon; assist us especially at the hour of death. Obtain for us a favorable judgment and the happiness of beholding God face to face for endless ages. Amen.

Jesus I want to get closer to you like st Faustina and help me to be open to your love

and voice and help me to bring you closer to those who do not know you

Amen