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Last night, sleep eluding me as I mulled over stuff in my past that I could have done so much better, had I, at that time in my life, gleaned the hard-earned wisdom I now posses. Then today, that icy emotion of fear ambushing my peace once again, recalling something which occurred yesterday that might have ended bad. (It did not Thank God). Morbid rumination, erroneous thinking, tangled and scattered imaginings stealing my joy, shattering my peace into a million pieces. No wonder someone wrote one time; ‘The movie in my mind is a foreign film’.

Then, mercifully, right this minute, wonderful Holy Spirit speaks into my deepest heart; ‘ Thanking and praising God with every breath you take, leaves no time to spare for scary thoughts. All is very well, right here, right now’. (I will share this wonderful wisdom with many).

Wow!! Moment of transcendence, beauty and peace. Holy Light and inspiration from on-High.

As I write, tall trees at the end of my garden swiftly losing their remaining few leaves. My trees are accepting, living in the moment, and precisely because of this, they stand majestic in their sublime nudity.

My dear friend Mary calls, as she oftentimes does. Labouring under crushing mental health issues all her long life she tells me candidly; ‘I am doing my best, fighting my way’, Before she goes on her way rejoicing, she asks for prayers for another dear lady in terrible turmoil right now.

Ruairi and little Daithi arriving back home in Kildare safe and sound after our joyful weekend together here in Kerry. Nan, son and grandson. What a gift from God.

When I told sweet little Daithi (grandson 3years) how much I wished he could stay with me forever and live in my pocket, his reply; ‘People don’t live in pockets, Nan, and I don’t either’. Simple as that! So much beautiful theology packed into little Daithi’s wise words.

Gaze shifted, nothing left to do but praise and thank wonderful Holy Trinity One God with every fibre of my being from the bottom of my grateful joyful heart. Tremendous tools of navigation through my life here on earth.

When we praise and thank God we are uplifted. There is a practical reality to praise and worship. We are in the Throne room of the Lord Most High. ‘A joyful heart makes for a dazzling countenance’.(Psalm 15:13)

‘The devil rejoices most when he can steal the joy out of the heart of the servant of God’. (St. Francis of Assisi)

‘Acquire inner peace and thousands around you will find salvation’. (St. Seraphim of Serra)

‘Holy Mother of God’, repeated many times is huge comfort in times of distress.

‘Trust in Me. Do more than trust. Joy in Me. If you really trust, you cannot fail to joy. The wonder of My care, protection and provision is so transcendingly beautiful, as your trust reveals it to you, that your whole heart must sing with the joy of it’. (Jesus/God Calling2)