The dry sore throat started around the same time as the irritating slow nasal drip. I was coming down with a cold. I moaned internally. This was not a time to get a cold. My calendar was full of appointments, ones where I needed a clear mind and extra strength to grapple with them. I prayed that the cold would not progress any further and that my immune system would win the battle. Do you ever pray prayers like that? Prayers that ask God into your day, into your situation. God is so interested in you, in me, in our lives that he loves it when we include Him. He…

Spending some down time over the holy days of Easter and beyond has given me time with family and time to think about life. To reflect upon the most important things. Like God, family, relationships, love…. I am reminded about Paul’s description of love in 1 Corinthians 13:1-8: If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions,…

This week is such an important week in the life of every human being. They (every human being) may not think so, but this week is the week that determined life or death for us. That’s a defining true statement, even if you don’t believe in God. God exists even if you do not believe in Him. These next three days – The Triduum – is a period of time that traces the final days of Jesus’ life, His death and His Resurrection from the dead. These are Holy days where each day is marked with a particular liturgy. Following the scriptures, starting with Holy Thursday night – The Last…

I was feeling like I was getting on top of my emotions and my thoughts were getting clearer as to how I was going to cope with everything going forward health-wise. Then I received an email from a friend who was feeling low and useless due to his health. Just after reading this, I listened to the first LENTEN Mission Message from The Catholic Guy, Bruce Downes Ministries. Bruce mentioned that sometimes in life the storms that come our way are not judgements or punishment from God but a Divine Intervention. My spiritual ears pricked up. Could my health issues be God intervening in my life for a purpose? Years…

Who has good intentions but the way you feel can stop you? Planning for the week, you decide midweek you are going to clean out those rooms, those closets that need it. Even the night before it was still in your plans. Then you have a bad night of lack of sleep because your brain just won’t shut down. In the morning you seem to have a sore throat, a runny nose… and when the alarm goes off you keep hitting the snooze button on the machine. You just can’t seem to get the energy up to even get up, let alone open the closet door to clean up what’s…