Prayers Please...

For the few readers that I do have, I want to ask for your prayers.
My sister is in the hospital with heart failure.  I don't know how much longer she will last or if she can pull through or not.
I ask for prayers for her and for my family.

Thank you all.

Peace

Thoughts...

I've had a few thoughts I had in the past weeks that I have finally remembered to put down in writing.
One from a while back that sticks out to me still is a way of looking or thinking about Jesus.  I've never really felt like I have had that intimate of a relationship with Jesus.  That has been a struggle for me for my entire faith life.  I couldn't tell you what prompted it, but one day sitting at mass I thought of Jesus as a big brother.  I still remember the comfort I felt in thinking of Jesus in that way; as a guy who I could talk to about anything, someone I could always look up to and someone who would always look out for me.
Then just recently the understanding, or at least insight into the fact that God knows me intimately struck me. Maybe I had never thought about it or didn't think I was worthy or what, but to finally begin to grasp that God knows me... me... on a personal basis was wonderful.  Thinking of God as a someone who just sits up in heaven and looks down on all of us and hears our prayers has been my basic view since I can remember.  God, though, knows me, cares about me.  He is personally with me always.

The grace of understanding and insights... gotta love 'em.

Peace all

More Little Hints

I guess I can call them hints.  That seems the be the best way to describe the little moments when things connect and I have no doubt in my mind that God is working in my life.
This one was really little, but I still liked it.
This last Sunday, Divine Mercy Sunday, was the end of my week off.  I spent a lot of time with my family, which was wonderful.  Ahead of me though was a long drive.  Having prepared for the drive, I had a collection of Lighthouse Media CD's.  A couple were talks given by Father Barron, a couple by Matthew Kelly.  I selected one by Fr. Richter... I think that is how it's spelled.  A priest from the Diocese of Bismark his talk was on trusting in God.  Well, these CD's always (I think...) have a bonus track on them.  As the CD is being introduced, low and behold to my surprise, the bonus track was from a talk given on God's Divine Mercy!
Yep, I picked the one CD out of a dozen that happened to have a segment on Divine Mercy, on Divine Mercy Sunday.

Peace all!