first place

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I want to put my Rosary Beads

in the first place,

as David his stones

in his haversack,

to conquer all my Goliaths.

Fr. Jozo Zovko

In times of darkness, holding the rosary is like holding Mary’s hand.

hugs n’ blessings for holding your Mother’s hand.

He saw us.

“Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Psalm 139:16

We celebrate our birthdays as the day that our fully formed body came into the world and we breathed our first breath.

Birthdays mark the beginning of our lives, but in this Scripture, God was celebrating us long before our birthday!

He saw us before we were even formed; he knew that we were destined for life, even before that first breath.

What an amazing God we have, who is not only all-knowing, but ever personal.

Take courage and strength from the truth that you were destined from the beginning and you have a wonderful purpose!

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a fairy first year!

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” 

J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” 

J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” 

J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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