Almost idyllically ☀️🙏🏻

Work permits have arrived and now many seeking employment in our little town. Arduous task, jobs scarce as hens’ teeth!

She comes into Church carrying her folder of cv’s. Exhausted, she walked many miles to a factory outside town to drop off her cv but a ‘good man’ took her back into town again in his car, God Bless him. ‘God’s way of saying He knows’, she tells me, smiling weakly.

Telling her how similar our lives are, how my boys and I returned back to this place twenty years ago with no choice but begin again. Jesus never left our sides though and He is with her too, every solid step, I tell her. 

‘It was worse for you than it is for all of us (her fellow asylum seekers) because you did not have a ‘Bridget’ like we do’. Dear sweet lady!

Thank you Holy Trinity One God for bountiful blessings, not least for keeping me alive until this day and time when I can do for others what You have always done and continue to do for me. Every single thing I get to do comes directly from You. 

In our hour of need, my boys and I may not have had a ‘Bridget’ but oh we had You every step of the way. No comparison! My joy now to pass it all on, any time day or night. 

Young guy cleaning windows this afternoon. ‘Congratulations, you got married. Are you living idyllically’? I ask. To which he replies; ‘Almost’. 

Great name for a book! ‘Almost idyllically’.

‘Christ Himself is our mouth through which we speak to the Father, our eye through which we see the Father, our right hand through which we offer to the Father. Without His intercession neither we nor all the Saints have anything with God’. (St. Ambrose)

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