Browsing Category: Journal Pages

REMEMBER THAT

So many prayed, so many granted,Some ways I could not see;Growing Faith, refining soul—Learning who is “me.” Then spreading gift, sharing the same,To others as they pray:Advancing nearer into LightWith each and every day. We are products of our prayers,Prayed and offered in the past.At least one of them, we live today.I pray: remember that. […]

REAPER

                “Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.  Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.  May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world […]

A PRAYER IN HOPE

                It lived on day in the Second Canticle of Spring, its song voiced by birds, messengers on wing, in proclamation of arrival to new and promised life.  She departed on day when the first of spring shone green through recession of winter’s covering snow; appearing in the low bases and shortest blades of wintered […]

OUR PART

“There is a responsibility that everyone can take up: we need to decide if we are going to collectively and individually tilt the world towards Heaven or tilt it towards Hell.”—Jordan B. Peterson                 There comes a point when we discern the most-wrong way to live is deference—putting off life and denying one’s perceived course […]

PARALLELS

                Is not writing, in its own way, a form of prayer—a messaging of thought, hope, desire, and wish—offered into the universe without promise of response?  Maybe, for some words and prayers, we truly seek an answer.  Others, maybe to give them is enough—their effect and answer coming in the consequence of contemplation in focusing […]

IN EVERY WOMAN

                In every woman, I see a Mary: made for miracles, imbued with goodness and who, by their gift of bringing life into this world, saves man from his own end.  Whether Mother or Magdalene, God loves and works in each: changing hearts, minds, and souls by drawing those in world around nearer to communion […]