I am spending a few days with my loving family in Wicklow, rest and renewal, fun and laughter. Long sleeps, longer walks.
In the midst of all that, sharing my powerful prayer of course. Mind body and spirit. So many amazing encounters. Wonderful Holy Spirit continues to delight and surprise every step of my journey home to Heaven above. Here’s a few…
Dear Anne dancing daily with dementia, her kindly carer Lea by her side. Incidentally Lea calls Anne her ‘friend’. ‘Carer’ not once entering our conversation, I love that. All of us care for one another, every action is a transaction. Anne read my prayer aloud before turning to Lea uttering earnestly: ‘Look, we were all upset this morning and now God does this’. Then turning to me, dear lady places her hands on my shoulders, looked me in the eye saying intently: ‘You are lovely. You are healthy and you are full of beautiful energy’. Tears welled up in my eyes. Wow!!
I am so grateful to God that I get to spend precious time with my Holy Rosary group in St. Anne’s every week. Elderly folk have always meant the world to me and even more so nowadays as I fast approach becoming one myself. (We must age of course but we must not ever grow old!)
Bernie in Church prayed my prayer aloud and then asked; ‘Are you a nun or maybe a healer’. I love Jesus, I told her. Jesus is the healer, I His willing delighted instrument.
Sean, young guy on my train, helped put my case on the overhead wrack. Tad embarrassed, his friends weren’t bothered (except for one girl). Sean felt the fear and did it anyway. His shock and happiness when he received my prayer stays with me. Another ‘Holy’ moment. I offered him prayers for his friends but that just seemed a step too far!
Guy angry and frustrated gazing on empty bottles spilled out all over the pavement. His rubbish bin fell over as he loaded it onto his truck. I would have gladly helped but knowing I could not, I offered him my prayer instead. ‘No thanks, love. Prayer will do me no good right now’, he replied as kindly as he could muster. ‘I will pray for you so’, I said. Stopping for a moment, he smiled thanking me from his heart. God’s amazing Grace in vivid display!
Another guy kindly refused too. Definitely all of us are searching for God whether we know it or not. Sad refusals always remind me of the rich young man in the Bible. (Mark 10: 17-31)
Sitting in Holy Mass one morning feeling anxious about something and Father spoke these much needed words in his homily; ‘Fear is useless. What is needed is trust’. Holy Spirit knows our deepest needs at all times.
Young guy pushing Tea trolley on train took my prayer and then gifted me a complementary tea! Delivery guy and his helper outside a shop extremely moved too.
I love being a prayer-sharing Nan from Kerry. Not always easy but immensely rewarding.
Last night I heard myself speak aloud: ‘It bounces around in my head until I get it all said’. Truly only when I put it all in writing does it literally leave my mind, flying freely into my deepest heart for posterity. Until that time though, I relive each beautiful encounter and happening many times.
‘In the measure in which we live out our vocation generously we shall be brought to a spiritual and human maturity which we could not have reached in any other way, and outside of which is only illusion and escape’. (Sister Mary David)
Strolling with lovely Luna. How great is our God!!
‘Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree’. (Joyce Kilmer)
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