Susan, super helpful teller in Dunnes accepted my prayer, as did Pat as he went about his business in Killarney, visibly distressed contemplating the horrendous sufferings of Ukraine people. Religious Sister in Franciscan shop read and loved it. She will copy it for distribution. Bridie who just couldn’t resist buying that vivid sunflower picture accepted it. Generous bus driver from Killarney to Cork accepted gratefully as did lady bus-driver from Cork city to Midleton.
They didn’t just ‘accept’ my prayer, they were really pleased. Little old me was able to do some small thing in these troubled days.
This has not been the easiest of weeks, on a personal front and on the world stage. Watching helplessly as loved ones suffer right now and the poor people in Ukraine. Yet, to be gifted sublime privilege from God of putting a smile on some faces today lightens my draining burden this night.
Bloom where I am planted, God will do the rest.
‘Never give in then, my dear brothers, never admit defeat.; keep on working at the Lord’s work always, knowing that, in the Lord, you cannot be labouring in vain’. (1 Corinthians 15:58)
‘Listen to me: everyone in this world has a vocation, a road to follow which is special to him and which is his most direct and sure way to Heaven’. (Jacques Fesch)
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