"If you ever feel distressed during your day, call upon our Lady, just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.' I must admit, this prayer has never failed me." -St. Teresa of Calcutta
Spring break is over. Girls are back in school. I am only a little behind in my writing. All in all it is a beautiful Lenten season as we reach week 4- more than half way over! I did a small personal devotion to Mother Mary while eating blueberry waffles and drinking blueberry tea. I saw this statue of Mary in a neighbor's yard on my walk a few days ago. It really is inspiring me to create a Marian garden but it is a little scary to want to put a statue in such close proximity to a Baptist church but it is still an idea and a prayer. It may never go beyond that.
"Enough is as good as a feast." -Sir Thomas Malory
To take my mind off the current troubles and to fulfill the prompt for the day taking out a puzzle was so refreshingly simple and gave Lucy something to do with me. It is a 1000 pieces so it is not so easy and I have loose goal of trying to finish it by Easter but at the rate I am going it might be done by Pentecost.
"Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose." -Yoda
I live in a world of too much irony right now. Many of the prompts and challenges this week were about giving money to your parish or charity and I checked our account this week. It has less than $40 in the checking. Usually we have a our tax return done by now so that really hurt when Amazon Prime took their yearly dues plus gas prices are almost $5 a gallon. I have to keep looking at this as just another opportunity to trust God more and more. It still hurts when I hear about everyone else's vacations or even something as innocuous seeming as raising prices for "Women's Ministry" events. I cling to Jesus ever more tightly. But praise be to God, we do have money for food and our house is a safe, warm place. There is always something to be grateful for.
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