Praying w/ Val, My Third Child

My third child, Val–he’s now a dashing man of 29– slept over. Before leaving early this morning, we prayed together thus:

“Dear Lord thank you for this rare chance of sleeping together with my son in this home where the children grew up. And thank you for helping us get up with our faculties intact, with us capable of continuing with our dreams, with the strength and resources to pursue them.”

Mom: “Continue to cover my son with your mantle of protection and hugs of love and affection that he may feel your presence wherever he goes, whatever he does and make him feel he is always loved. Touch him with your healing love, every part of his body, especially his eyes and pancreas...and his soul... and bless him with the power to do what is right for himself, for his associates, friends, loved ones and all others..”

Val: “Amen”

All I Have to say to my Lord

I have been singing it all too often. Yet it was only in yesterday’s Holy Mass that I caught the full meaning of the following lines:

“All that I’ve been through, I offer them to you oh Lord
Make my life a worthy offering to you.”

And I realized, that is all I have been trying to tell my Creator in so many words and in so many ways–oftentimes, bumbling ways–sometimes right, sometimes not so; sometimes true, sometimes not a bit too; always human, but by God’s grace can be noble and divine.

Yesterday I had a date with the Lord in a very meaningful way. It doesn’t happen often.

How to Give Back

To be able to love, it is necessary to have experienced love. The love we share is also the love we enjoy. To be able to love in a Christian manner–pure and selfless, self-sacrificing and Christl-like–presupposes an experience of God’s love. We can give only what we have.

I did experience God’s generosity. Now I can give away the same. Even my husband and children could not fully comprehend why I could be passionately lawyering for a client–even the most difficult and demanding character–who can’t pay and who I even treat with meals and free ride with allowances. That is an expression of the love of God which I have richly encountered in my life.

Date with the Lord

Whenever the urge to pray beckons, listen and be still. That’s the Lord asking for a date.

You will then encounter a moment in time which is connected to an eternity.