Sunday Snippets # 5

This week Chats on a Farmhouse Porch #2 and Quick Takes # 18 deal with bits and pieces of our everyday lives. 

Happy Birthday to a Duck Loving Granddaughter is a short commentary on one of Boo's difficult days this week.

Finally, Where Has Lent Gone? is my reflection on Lent this year.

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Sunday Snippets

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March 2013 Daybook, Chats on the Farmhouse Porch #1 and Quick Takes # 17 are all glimpses into our daily life.

Questions to Trigger Memories are a list of questions that I've found helpful to encourage conversation on days when Boo is less interested in talking.

Boo and Pope Francis is about Boo's response to our Holy Father's name choice.

New Lenten Discipline and a Video of Boudreaux is about the discipline of adapting to and learning from the changes in our life.  Oh, and a video of the cat.

Sunday Snippets

This week I'm sharing two posts.

The first post is my 7 Quick Takes post this week.  It's a peek into our bizarre and crazy life last Friday.

The second post is Choosing to See.  I wrote this one this morning.  I had intended to write a rant on the ways society devalues life and the evils of doing so.  And then, I thought.  A completely different post from the one I'd so carefully planned emerged.  Sometimes God has sneaky ways of using my anger and frustration to teach me about myself.

Sunday Snippets

Sunday Snippets

This week I'm sharing three short posts. 

The first is Learning and Teaching.  The snap shot is an old one of my father reading to my daughter.  In talking to one of my young relatives this week, I realized again the responsibility we have to teach our faith to our children. 

The second post, What Makes Me Happy?, was written on a day when I needed to concentrate on my blessings.  When I have overwhelming days with little rest, I must take stock of my blessings...or become so mired down in the stresses of everyday that I'm no use to myself or others.  (I need to do this much more consistantly!)

The last post is Laughter.  It's only a short post because I'm rather busy today, but there's a larger post in my mind waiting to be written. 

Sunday Snippets

Sunday Snippets: Under Our Lady's Shadow

My blessings are hemmed in by frustration. I just noticed that. Am I so busy that I simply don't notice the blessings surrounding me until frustration stops me? I strongly suspect that's the case. Lately, in my eagerness to get things done, I easily lose sight of the truly important. Those things that aren't things at all. And in all my rushing around I accomplish less. That's an important lesson and one that I'm learning all too slowly.

Case in point: This morning I pulled up the daily Mass on EWTN's website, settled Boo and myself on the comfortable sofa to participate through the internet. I mean, if we can't attend a local Mass because of Boo's health problems, then we can at least participate this way. We have many times before and have been richly blessed by it.

Not today. Today life intervened and Boo needed attention and comfort. He couldn't concentrate on the Mass because his mind was too restless and wandering. He was filled with anxiety about the strange paths his mind was taking and unable to differentiate the past from the present and reality from fantasy. A very scary place to be indeed.

Then...a “commercial” (maybe a short meditation?) came on. I'm pretty sure I bumped the laptop and hit a button. I don't think it was scheduled in the middle of the Mass. An image of Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared on the screen. Boo quieted and watched and listened.

“Hear and let it penetrate into your heart, my little son; let nothing discourage you, nothing depress you. Let nothing alter your heart or your countenance. Also do not fear any illness or vexation, anxiety or pain. Am I not here who am your mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not your fountain of life? Are you not in the folds of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Is there anything else that you need?”

In awe, Boo looked at me. “She's talking to me. She understands and she's taking care of us.”

I wish I could say that Boo relaxed and that his mind quit it's mad racing. But that's not what happened. He's still confused and uneasy. Today is still a struggle. However, in the midst of this day's struggle, we have been given a message of motherly comfort just when we most needed it.

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