One precious moment at a time☀️🙏🏻

Thank you wonderful Holy Spirit! Perfect timing as always!

Oftentimes, (last night) I awaken in deepest night full of concern for what might come to pass. Ridiculous I know but extremely real and utterly upsetting. Then I read the above!!

Living in the present moment is not a new concept to me but somehow in some sweet way I receive this glorious gem more fully and deeply into my deepest spirit, this rainy morning in deepest Kerry.

My dear Mom would say; ‘No news is good news’. Truly, only this morning do I fully get what she meant! Actually ‘no news’ is beyond good!! ‘No news’ is truly great!!

‘Everything is a work of love done for Christ’s sake and all I have to be concerned about is doing the duty of the moment. This is where my anxiety turns to joy’. (Catherine Doherty/Madonna House)

On my way to Holy Mass, going by a Builders yard, Tom is searching frantically for something, darting here and there at the speed of light. ‘What are you looking for Tom’, I holler. Stopping in his tracks, Tom replies laughing; ‘I don’t know!’.

‘When they found Jesus they said to Him; “Everyone is looking for You’. (Mark 1-37)

Wait and see☀️🙏🏻

‘Tell me that there are moments when you are sure of Me. This will comfort Me. This will comfort Me for all the other moments’. (Jesus to Gabrielle Bossis/He and I)

Yes! Absolutely Lord of my life. I am sure!! Myriad moments every minute of every day without question or doubt.

My little grandson deep in play while I sat deep in worrisome thought. Next moment he jumps up giving me the warmest hug. No word spoken!

Guy seated next to me on bus. Rain pouring down and dear man turns to me smiling; ‘I call rain “Holy water” falling down from Heaven above’. Wow!! Blast from the past! Pushing my baby in his buggy, rain pouring down way back then too, all the while singing; ‘My God reigns/rains’!!

Three young girls somewhat taken aback, but oh so joyfully, loved my prayer. ‘I cannot promise you nothing will be wrong but you will be strong’, I told them. They will write those words down!! Prayer-sharing grandmothers vital in this our day and time.

Elderly lady asks; ‘What do I tell a young man who says Mass is boring’. ‘Introduce him to Jesus, He will do the rest’, I replied. Clutching my prayer, she walked happily away.

Elderly lady who told me that nowadays there is so much talk about love and no mention of consequences. I knew what she meant. Jesus did not condemn the lady at the well but their beautiful encounter prompted her wholeheartedly to change her ways for a better life. He loved her! Lady’s words were brilliant; ‘ Nowadays folk forget that Jesus said; “Don’t do it anymore”.

Lady overjoyed to hear my name is Bridget. She will say my prayer every day. She loves St. Brigid. In fact she is part of a St. Brigid circle. Definitely the real St. Brigid interceded for this dear lady. So many myths around St. Brigid.

Young guy who’s family member died tragically recently. ‘This is no mistake’, he told me, accepting my prayer. 

Young guy whose phone stopped working as he tried to pay his bus fare to College. I got to do it!! He was so grateful but for sure my heart got a greater gift.

I leave home every time carrying countless prayers. I return with hardly any. Back to my laminator!!

So that’s it! No more plans, I await direction from You, Holy Trinity one God.

“For I know the plans I have for you”, declares the Lord. “Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future’. (Jeremiah 29:11)

‘Now there is a growing desire to just let God’s plan unfold whatever it may be and however mysterious’. (Restoration magazine). My dear Mom would say; ‘We’ll wait and see’. I would angrily reply; ‘ We can’t wait Mom, we must know now’. I can wait now, dearest Mom! All glory to God.

God beckons our heart☀️🙏🏻

‘Where Love is in charge, all is well’. (St. Faustina)

I love visiting Nursing Homes. I love chatting with the residents. Otherworldly! Peace, serenity, contentment and joy in abundance.

Sharing my prayer of course. Laughter. Priceless wisdom flowing freely and joyfully absorbed.

One dear lady happily accepting my prayer, tells me that she hardly ever prays. She left home at an early age, she and her Mom clashed a lot. She adored her Dad. ‘I will pray this prayer’, she told me but I hope it doesn’t make me feel guilty’. ‘Of course not’, I reply. ‘Guilt is useless. Throw it over your shoulder’.

She did just that!!

Prayer changes everything. Innately we know it!! Without prayer our souls dehydrate and die.

Dear lady’s worried words still linger. FEAR - Face Everything And Recover. Love G’s version; Face Everything and Run!! (She knows!!)

‘Prayer gives us an interior knowing. That knowing is a touching of the Divine, where Gods is communicating’. (Frances Hogan)

Out of my bed earlier than usual this morning. Allowing Ruairi sleep on (well deserved!) while I spend valuable time with my glorious little grandson. Having slept poorly last night I had fully intended catching a nap at some point. Then, I read the following in Magnificat. I love Carlyle Houselander;

“Let your prayer be simply your offering of yourself to do God’s will, to rest and relax in Him, and to offer everything you do as a prayer; for example, if you have a little sleep, offer that”. 

Tiredness gone!! Wonderful Holy Spirit!!

Just now I meet with Cass who has suffered much of late. ‘I awoke this morning at 4AM’, she told me. ‘From now on I will stress no more about lack of sleep. Instead I spend my time in prayer’. More wisdom from one who knows!!

‘But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My Name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you’. (John 14:26)