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  I followed a trail of breadcrumbs today and in the grocery store parking lot I met a strange destination - this Scripture. #♾ What was strange in the parking lot is how familiar this Verse felt internally as a beginning, too.  I am grateful for the knowing of how humbling waiting upon the Lord is. #worththewait Jan 31, 2023 I woke up to Psalm 86:5; Psalm 34:4-8 visited me at 2:18p this afternoon https://youtube.com/shorts/fAnlr41ntCw?feature=share Feb 23, 2023 I revisited this Verse again today and a familiar song shuffled while I was meditating on the Words.  I like a good soundtrack; this would be one of the songs I’d put on that Verse’s soundtrack.  The instrumental introduction strikes the chord and really helps to deepen the fullness of joy as the Verse reveals Himself to you, in my opinion.  https://youtu.be/bBfHUrLGzNY

A night in 2019 I celebrated my embrace of both trial and joy. I leaned into our 11th wedding anniversary for that.   (2/2/23 Looking back, I think I accepted it all with hope; that worked for me. Good soundtrack for the strength of that embrace:  https://youtu.be/EcESRakp1UM ) https://youtube.com/shorts/jl-ts1RNVPM?feature=share  …Yes!

Like the line of a poem my aunt shared “love the question”, I have been patient with my question, “What is spiritual poverty?” The answer I understood arrived in my shuffle today  https://youtu.be/SjnKSlDm4oc  The Saints give great analogies.  I was reminded of something again this morning.  A client I served dogwalking said she thought I would like what she called this, a meditation.  I received this meditation.  We had befriended each other instantaneously. I wrote to her once she reminded me of a coincidental blend of my older and baby sister. Her influence was always encouraging along the way: 

I learned about Paul the Apostle today:  https://youtu.be/wHMXmaG0zfQ   I am grateful my parents trained us to have a great discipline #ephesians6   https://youtu.be/XXixy4wIXsc

Someone proclaimed to us on 1/23 she has decided her diagnosis is not a late stage terminal disease, no, it is to live full in this moment with her son #philippians4:8washere  “Hope has two beautiful daughters: Anger and Courage…” - St. Augustine Someone told me I was imaginative.  “Imagination is such a big part of our Faith and a big part of our spirituality because you have to make the invisible visible in your mind.”  https://youtube.com/shorts/x5lCJZM7gKY?feature=share   #matthew18:1-5

“Christ has made my soul beautiful with jewels of Grace…”- St Agnes  I have loved this quote, and I found the Saint it belonged to yesterday.  I am telling you, Saints have the best quotes.  I like to make lists and one list I have is of cat names for a black cat.  When we stayed at Grandma’s house, we had an outside pet that was a stray black cat.  We named her Green Eyes.   On my list I have: Begonia I think Agnes would be a good name for a black cat, too. I think of names for Dixie, too.  Franxis and Silky are on that list.  Matt almost gave Hank the name Moose but Matt read the Hank the Cowdog series and from I know about Amanda’s collection, Hank was a clever dog.  I suggested Hank because “Hank” fit Hank; he can find his way out of anything - Hank found his way off the streets to us.  We tease Dixie she may have a clue but not the kind of clue Hank has.  I have seen Dixie and Harold make Hank’s face there - it’s funny.  D...

I tried to make a cake like a cartoon.  It was a series of misfortunate events.  One moment the beater fell on the floor and switched on flinging icing about.  But this one took the cake; I couldn’t even cry.  This night called at 10:24p.

https://youtu.be/8ZOd6M0R8Hw   I remember my elementary teachers saying, “Put your thinking caps on.”  I still use my thinking cap my parents gave me then.  Patience is a fruit of The Holy Spirit.  Thinking caps aren’t sold in the school supplies aisle.   I heard the incident Mary and Joseph lost Jesus as a child to find him in the temple was a reflection of patience aka perseverance.  When Jesus is found, Jesus says to Mary and Joseph that surely they knew he was in His Father’s house.  It felt reassuring to know that even in the worry/anxiety Mary and Joseph experienced, Jesus asks for trust. That’s how I would describe the weight of anxiety can feel - I had worried yet I had trusted the direction of my path at the same time enough to stay as present as I did; #that I can do simultaneously.  I cannot cook and talk on the phone at the same time.  #somethingsgottogive That’s how I relate to 1 Peter 5:7 - I communicate my anxiety to those I kn...

I heard the parable of the wine skins for the first time last night offline. My first reaction was “Tell me again!” I completely understood the first explanation given.  Coincidentally, I heard it twice more tonight - spontaneously. Yea  I encountered the wineskin parable a fourth time by intentionally reading an article of someone’s view.  I liked how this writer’s viewpoint expanded my understanding of the explanation I first received: Jesus was making a very specific point to John the Baptist. He was here to do something completely new. If John (or anyone else) tried to make sense of it through a lens of old expectations and regulations, they’d miss the amazing thing that was happening. Through Jesus, God was redeeming the world to Himself. And if people expected this to look familiar to what God had done before, they wouldn’t understand. Modern Christians have the benefit of hindsight. We get to see the whole picture in a way that makes sense. Those who chose to follo...

I thought this Joyful Mystery mediation from the same Rosary recitation was impactful, too: "Mary goes to visit Elizabeth.  She carries God to her cousin, for the love of her brothers and her neighbors.  Lord, help us carry Christ to others like Mary did.  Let us ask Mary for the gift of burning charity."  I hear the spirit of Galatians 6:2, and, again, I feel gratitude for The Holy Trinity (February 3, 2023 I was meditating on Galatians 6:2 #again.  For me, the most challenging Verse to meditate upon - an eternal Verse like that.  The Joyful Mystery meditation I quoted up there helped me think about Galatians 6:2 more simplistically. I thought about it like this - Mary carried The Truth to Elizabeth and Elizabeth received The Truth.)  10/2/23 I heard today you don’t have to go through something terrible to experience joy.  I have been waiting to hear something like that.  I am just grateful when something terrible descends upon us, joy is th...

Someone wondered on the telephone, then, she just feels a perpetual sadness; I responded I thought that was a part of her joy.  Now, I heard a Joyful Mystery meditation: "We need to pay attention to the voice of God, discern His call, and accept the mission He gave us.  After Simeon's prophecy, Mary takes into her heart the wound of sorrow , but in the silence she accepts the will of her Father."  I received an even deeper appreciation for our conversation, then, today. 

Isn’t this the truth?! https://youtube.com/shorts/kp0ArOOOVoc?feature=share I was happy to encounter it.  In my opinion, this message speaks to how gracious God’s judgement is. 

I saw something travel in the sky yesterday 6:43p. Its appearance was sudden, its light was concentrated, its activity was intense, and its disappearance was vanishing.  I knew I caught a special show when I realized had I not rarely decided to walk earlier I would have missed it. I read to report a sighting like it to the American Meteor Association, but I will just record my sight here.  Matt teases me I saw a dud firework but he trusts in my retelling I surely did not. I do this thing when I have an intense reaction, I check the random Verse of the day.  That evening I met 1 Peter 1:15-16 January 12, 2023 I have been thinking about the Verse I met on the 10th.  It reminded me of an answer my mom gave me when I asked her, “What am I supposed to do?”  Isaiah 42:6-7 found me one day, and I was reminded of the answer my mom gave me.  I checked my understanding by asking myself what does it mean to be holy in all things done.  Doing right, God’s will, in...

I   have had good luck in my timing at the grocery store lately.  Good Culture cottage cheese has been in stock.  One trip I was just shy of this luck - I hoped the lady who walked up right beside me wasn't hoping to grab that last tub too.  I didn't look back to see.   I just enjoyed my good luck. .  Just like when I was in the right place at the right time to see this traveling snowman a few years ago.  Someone created that snowman with the sheer intention to make someone smile; I did.   I remember helping my grandma make both my great grandma and my grandpa’s dessert for supper.  I would add cottage cheese to a bowl of fruit for my great grandma and I would assemble Grandpa’s pear salad.   The only way I will eat Good Culture cottage cheese is with fruit.  I like my spoonfuls best with golden kiwi.  The chemistry between the texture of Good Culture and golden kiwi just works.   I thought about the momentum of my luck wi...

I met Titus 2:11-15.  Somewhere titled those verses, "Trained By Grace".  I am grateful my parents trained their daughters up to know 1 John 4:8 #because.  I am grateful for the gift of a husband who knows the truth, too.   I heard a prayer intention, “To fear less and lean into God’s peace more.” Yes   I don’t know who Titus is, but I am still learning who Paul is. January 12, 2023 Paul sounds like a good influence on Titus, and Titus sounds like he respects the wisdom Paul extends to him.  Paul and Titus are both cooperating with Grace they’ve received.   And then I thought of two good friends, The Dishwater Friends, whose influence felt good to me along the way.  This is my favorite page in the book “Beau” gifted me in the two and some years we were together.  I definitely received the too  from “Beau”:   

I’m wondering about Luke 2:19 since Christmas Eve.  His cadence is fast, it’s easy to zone out.  One bit I kept: Where Mary’s faith deepened - in her courage and willingness to persevere through prolonged darkness and confusion.   https://youtu.be/3DN7Qk5vHrI