God will work it out.☀️🙏🏻

My God, here is another day, given me to love and serve you. Amen

She sat alone in a pew near the door as I prayed live-streamed Holy Rosary before Holy Mass this morning. Afterwards, placing a prayer in my pocket, I made my way towards her but soon realised she had got up and left. About to return back to Holy Alter, when there she was, tucked in the corner lighting a candle. 

‘Would you like a beautiful morning prayer’, I asked. Poor lady! Frail and devastated she replied: ‘my son is having surgery today. I don’t know how serious it is’. We prayed my prayer together and then I suggested that perhaps Holy Spirit sent me to her because of her son’s surgery. ‘Yes, it is very strange’, she replied gratefully. Strange and wonderful to me too.

Loved meeting two joyful guys from Saudi Arabia in Church today. One of them took a video on his phone of all three of us asking if I would speak. ‘Let us pray, all of us in Saudi Arabia, Ireland and every place, for peace in our world’. I simply said. Who knows where that little clip will be seen and heard!! It can not be a bad thing and that is for sure.

I don’t recall meeting folk from Saudi Arabia in our Church before today. Delightful memorable encounter. Both guys gratefully accepted my prayer too.

African lady residing in our town asked if I would be God-Mother to her baby son. Christening in Church on Saturday. Thrilled and surprised I asked her: ‘Why me?’. She replied: ‘Because you were very happy to see me first time we met’. Wow!! First impressions last!! 

Young heartbroken lady came to Church to inform me that she must return home to her own country. She had hoped to begin a new life here. However, I could tell her truthfully that God’s plan for her life will greatly exceed her own dreams and schemes if she would accept what she cannot change. Once upon a time I too had a lavish plan for my own life …

Scrubbing the Psychiatric Unit floor where I worked for a time, crying uncontrollably. My tears could have washed clean that floor that day. ‘Why can I not have what I want so badly’, I begged my God. No, I did not hear His reply audibly but from somewhere deep within, there issued forth: ‘You will live longer and you will do good’. ‘That’s just my imagination’, I spoke aloud. To which He replied: ‘I am in your imagination too, you know’. 

That was eighteen years ago and I have been listening to His gentle wisdom ever since.

Holy Trinity One God. Walking with beautiful Jesus, in the Gladsome Light of Holy Spirit, home to our wonderful Father God. Amen

Freely freely we have received…..freely freely give!!

‘Give your all. Seek no reward. God will work it out’. (Jean Usher)

Without Jesus life would be unbearable!!