Roses are red.
Violet are blue.
It's Valentine's Day.
And I love all of you.
Daisies are white,
Lovely and pure.
Remember this day
That God's love is sure.
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Thanks be to God!
words...
An occasional bit of wit 'n' wisdom as gleaned from the wise and learned. Family fun and times to share.
Do you think this educational tool used to teach our kids about voting on a bill could be of any assistance to Congress and the President today? The topic here is ACTION, or the lack thereof.
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I still say, "thanks be to God!"
Don't want to live anywhere else!
Wonder what the weather has in store for us here today...We're supposed to have 50-60 MPH winds. It may be September, 2008 all over again. We lost electricity then for four days! Guess we'll need to batten down the hatches!!! Or it could just pass over. Will have to wait and see! Who said living in Southwest Indiana was boring?!
Have a grand day wherever you are!
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And thanks be to God!
O God, you search me and you
know me. all my thoughts lie
open to your gaze. When I walk or
lie down you are before me ever
the maker and keeper of my days.
Bernadettte Farrell
Text based on Psalm 139
Tis the season...Yes, it is. Today in preparation for the Academy Awards TCM is showing The Quiet Man. Long has this movie been a favorite of mine. So visit with me the site of it's filming. Please enjoy!
Pedibus compensunda est memoria
("A forgetful head makes a weary pair of heels")
Traditional
~~~The cook who has her ingredients ready before she turns on the stove has a much easier time of it than the one who must bustle about the kitchen, opening boxes, measuring, chopping; and cleaning all at once. The teacher who doesn't plan spends more time on discipline than instruction. The shopper who heads to the mall without a list on the day before Christmas is bound to lose his holiday spirit by dusk.
We can waset a lot of time vainly spinning our wheels, not only in the practicalities of life but to our spiritual lives as well.
We think that because we are unique and our sense of God is so personal and lies so deep within, that we are completely on our own when it comes to prayer. We flounder and wander, thinking that no one else can help, that no one else can understand our particular challenges.
It's just not so. Not one of us is the first person alive to seek intimacy with God. Millions have gone before us, and innumerable others have written about their journeys. Fellow friends of the Lord in our own parishes and homes surround us. Their stories, their experiences with prayer, can be of great value to us. In forgetting the gifts our fellow Christians have to offer, we make our solitary journeys all the more weary.Archabbot Lambert Reilly, O.S. B.
St. Meinrad Archabby
St . Meinrad, IN~~~
Even though you intended to do harm to me
God intended it for good, in order to preserve
a numerous people, as he is doing today.
Genesis 50:20
**+**This ends the story of Joseph, who was sold into slavery by his brothers. The harm they intended him was turned by God into a great good as the people of both Egypt and Israel were rescued from famine by Joseph's gifts.
God's ways among us are mysterious, but one thing we do know is that turning misfortune or weakness into good is just what he does. I've seen it countless times in my own life, and there are probably just as many times i haven't because I wasn't looking.***Loving God, today I'll pay attention to what you
have to show me about the painful parts of my life.
Mom has done it again. Wishing you all a LAUGH OUT LOUD DAY!!!
PUNS...GO AHEAD AND OVERDEW IT!
1. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
6. Now matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
8. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, 'You stay here, I'll go on a head.'
14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'
16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, 'No change yet.'
17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
18. It's not that the man did not know how to juggle, he just didn't have the balls to do it.
19. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
20. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
21. A backward poet writes inverse.
22. In democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.
23. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.
24. Don't join dangerous cults: practice safe sects!
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Thanks be to God