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do you hear my prayers, lord?

Published on September 28, 2017September 28, 2017 by Dawn Marie2 Comments

it’s a 3hugs&blessings thursday…

Prayer isn’t there to make us feel better when we’re anxious.

And it’s not there as an obligation.

It is a communion of love, between a lover and the beloved.

St. Faustina is a reliable witness on this point: she spoke to Our Lord about this many times, and He always expressed His infinite love for humanity.

“While I was saying the chaplet [of Divine Mercy], I heard a voice which said, Oh, what great graces I will grant to souls who say this chaplet; the very depths of My tender mercy are stirred for the sake of those who say the chaplet.” (No. 848)

In prayer we need not only to pray the words but Christ needs us to also listen! Continue reading “do you hear my prayers, lord?” →

3 ring circus.

Published on July 26, 2017July 31, 2017 by Dawn Marie9 Comments

Some days can feel like a circus.

Be Brave!

There’s a reason there are 3 rings under the big-top.

“In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in the very nature of God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!”

Phillipians 2: 5-8

hugs n’ blessings with a robust ROARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!