I have been so grateful to be in Arizona this month.
Especially because the desert – a place of preparation & purification – has been very fitting as we’ve entered the Lenten Season.
Traditionally, the desert has been a place of preparation & purification for Abraham, Moses, Jesus and so many others in our Sacred Tradition.
Why? Because what is in the desert?
“Not a whole lot!”
(Said a kind priest to me recently.)
“They are things I whisper in your ear
– confiding them –
as a friend, as a brother, as a father…
so that some thought will arise and strike you;
and so you will better your life
and set out along ways of
prayer and of Love.”
As written by, Msgr. Josemaria Escriva‘
As I mentioned a few days ago
God led me down the garden path of “growth” recently.
Continue reading “on…the way”
Brothers and sister: None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; so then whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. For this is why Christ died. and came to life, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
Romans 14: 7-9
For life I choose thee now,
My pleasure, honor, friend,
Sole object of my vow,
Sole joy to which I tend.
For mercy’s sake, print, trace
Yourself upon my heart,
My arm, my forehead, face;
And not one blush will start.
Triumph of the Cross, St. Louis de Montfort – Stanza XXIX
hugs n’ blessings for all the times we choose to live life with the only purpose that truly matters!
hugsnblessings 