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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.





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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 with cottage cheese this morning because I heard something about the Saints. 

I heard: You can always tell what a Saints greatest struggle in life was by looking at the virtue they are known for because that's what they had to put the most effort into polishing.  

I am grateful for the gift of the Saints because their example of orienting themselves to the will of God is great.  

I came across this quote of a Saint one day, and it made me chuckle.  Like I told "Gizmo" once - "It's so relatable it's funny, right?" And maybe not so much his vice is what’s relatable as his knowing.  His knowing is what I find relatable.

Like foreign braids, French and Dutch.  I have wanted to learn the technique of putting one in my own hair, and I put it off because I knew the mental struggle I would encounter.  And it has been!  I started in 2020 and as of 2022 I am six practices in.  

This work by a hairstylist in 2018 is my inspiration.  She was so happy to give me those braids when she realized I understood she didn’t have time to cut my hair in my appointment, afterall.  


My fifth practice: 

I think my confidence in giving myself piano lessons gave me the encouragement to pick braiding up again from my 2021 break.  

This is the video that helped me to start: https://youtu.be/HxMUD6mFCJs It’s for a French braid.

This is the quote I mentioned up that made me chuckle…

 


Saint Augustine’s knowing is relatable right?  Since I came across his prayer, I have been wanting to find a place for it in this space of mine for awhile because his prayer doesn’t sound like a Saint, but he did. 

“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”- Saint Augustine  

He has some of my most favorite quotes; he just adores God.  In my opinion, you can tell the difference in his life is God’s will for his life.  


And from there I went down a rabbit hole in asking, "What virtue is Saint Augustine known for?"  After reading from the link below and knowing a little about him, I believe his virtue would be love...

https://oblatesofstaugustine.com/spirituality/?amp=1




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