In light of today’s events in Colorado http://www.nbcnews.com/, I am sharing a song posted by a Facebook friend. Sting’s “Fragile” really does sum up how I have felt all day. But I know that somewhere in the midst of all of this uncertainty and utter madness lies the string that holds us all together. Let us pray to put an end to this culture of violence. Let us pray for all those lives lost or shattered by one persons madness. Let us pray for PEACE.
Wife, mother, blogger, Catholic ministry. I love to garden even when it goes wrong. Same with writing (and we know it can go wrong.) Believing that God is present in all of it.
Rocks. I have been obsessed with them in one way or another since the beginning of the pandemic. I am not sure why, suddenly, I am in love with rocks. Well, suddenly isn’t accurate. There was that geology class in college and there is a need to connect with random rocks that began at the…
Here is a video of James Martin Sj who had first hand experience of the aftermath of the events of 9/11. There is a moment in the video where I am certain that Christ was present to all who were wounded mentally, spiritually and physically. To those who were given last rites by the many…
Amen, amen, amen and amen!! Enough whining and complaining! Time to move forward and call it what it is. Reclaim the mission…be church! Show the world what we are really about, which is, in case we have forgotton, living the Gospel of Jesus Christ.http://www.uscatholic.org/blog/2012/06/forget-frustration-and-fortnight-im-going-road-trip-nuns
Before I knew it, he was standing before me, smiling. I couldn’t speak, I was overwhelmed by his presence. I forgot about all of those bags I had been carrying, all of the bags I had been focused on, everything I thought was wrong, it was all gone and I stood there alone with Him….
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-last-word/47884211#47884211I may be bombarding you a little in the next couple of days. I am heading on a trip to prepare me for a new ministry (started another unrelated one this week too!) and am going to a training workshop (all alone!) to New Orleans! I am tentatively excited! But will really be happy when…
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Annette, yes we are so very fragile. When I was on retreat one of the priests prayed for the people in Colorado and also the people in Scarborough, Ontario who had been involved in violent acts. When I heard about these two incidents, I was almost ill because people are so desperate and they don’t know the love of Jesus in their lives. I have been troubled by this but we need to keep the hope that is in our faith in Christ and we need to remember Matthew 25 and be part of the solution. I will be using this song and Matthew 25 for reflection at Bible Study this evening as we are all community and we need to be aware and feel for others whether we know them personally or not.
Thank you for this post and thank you for your prayers while I was on retreat. It was certainly not “enjoyable” but I spent a great deal of time wrestling with God and I was blessed.
God bless you.
I think you hit the nail on the head “they don’t know the love of Jesus in thier lives” and the reality is that we can only try to be that to whomever we meet and we can only pray for a more loving and gentler world. God likes to wrestle, so much of his book is about just that. I hope the song was useful in what I can only imagine was a difficult Bible Study. My heart and prayers go out to everyone in the ongoing aftermath.