Tag: prayer

Laugh that you may love!

Published on by Dawn Marie3 Comments

it’s the monday giggles….

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THE BEST PART OF BEING IN LOVE IS WHEN YOU JUST LOVE A PERSON AND BE HAPPY ABOUT IT,EVEN IF THAT PERSON CAN NEVER LOVE YOU BACK,EVEN IF YOU KNOW THAT IT CANT LAST FOREVER! THAT’S THE TRUE ESSENCE OF LOVE. IT’S NOT WINNING SOMEONE.IT’S NOT ABOUT OWNING A RELATIONSHIP.IT’S JUST ABOUT BEING HAPPY COZ U KNOW U’VE LOVED SOMEONE.IT’S ABOUT BEING GUILTLESS COZ U KNOW U DIDNT TAKE AWAY SOMETHING THAT WAS NEVER THERE. NEVER TRULY REAL. U JUST CONTINUE TO LOVE AND LOVE UNSELFISHLY!
– thought from someone

I love this “thought from someone” and I’m so very gladly they shared this with me. The only additional hug I would add to these wonderful words would be:

Yes! Indeed!

Continue to love

and to love unselfishly!

And

don’t forget to

Giggle!

Turn those frowns upside down

because that’s not how God intended

you to live.

(Not to mention the Evil one cannot tolerate laughter…

he usually flees at the sound of it.)

Laugh through the difficulties so that love

may bloom again giggle-after-giggle.

Love always wins in the end!

hugs n’ blessings wrapped in giggles & love for you to share!

St. Andrew’s Christmas Novena Begins November 30th!

Published on by Dawn Marie6 Comments

I already mentioned (in an earlier post) that

I love the Advent Season of our liturgical calendar!!

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One of my favorite practices is the participation in St. Andrew’s Christmas Novena.  I have partaken in this practice for many, many, many years now and I love the ‘rhythmic timing’ being committed to this Novena adds to my prayer life during Advent. I have tender chapel bells set on my phone that go off each time I am to pray this lovely prayer and my heart swells each time they softly ring out.

I have chosen to reblog a WONDERFUL description of this Christmas Novena written by a splendid blogger, Gretchen Filz, where you will find ALL THE INFORMATION NECESSARY to partake in this beautiful prayer devotion.  Gretchen is a convert to Catholicism who I am certain you will enjoy reading more about at her site!

Please let me know if you too adopt this prayer practice this Advent Season and be sure to share any blessings you receive as a result!  Big or small a blessing is a blessing, after all!!

hugs n’ blessings and may chapel bells ring out in your heart!

November 30 is the feast day of St. Andrew the Apostle. St. Andrew was the very first disciple called by Our Lord, and he is the one who got his brother, St. Peter to come with him to meet the Messiah….(click on the link below to learn more about St. Andrew & this important novena.)

 St. Andrew’s Christmas Novena Begins November 30th!

purple, purple, pink, purple!

Published on by Dawn Marie4 Comments

Advent Disclaimer:I apologize as there was a problem with my publishing calendar yesterday.  This post was scheduled to have gone out November 29th, which would have been my final publication in the NaBloPoMo Challenge!  I hope you still find it worth reading…and I hope you remembered to light the correct candle without me!!

(remember: purple, purple, pink, purple!)

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I adore this time of our liturgical year: The Advent season!
In a world that is so distracted from God, in a culture and country that seem so anti-God, I enter Advent season this year with a praying heart. For Christians this is a season of expectant waiting. We are waiting on Christ. And when we wait for him, when we turn our eyes toward Him, the things of this earth grow small and dim.  The Black Fridays & Cyber Mondays pale in comparison.  We wait instead for the Gift that is greater than any this world could have ever dreamed!
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(And the only Doorbuster Deals we are anxious for is the one our Papa will bring to us, when he proclaims a Year of Mercy at the Holy Door in the atrium of St. Peter Basilica on December 8th!  No snow globe give-away necessary, giggle-giggle…)

 

 

My Advent wish for you can be found in a beautiful poem I’d like to share as we enter into the Advent Season together.  May you find a special hug & blessing tucked inside to wrap around your heart and carry with you these next four weeks!

 

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Ann Voskamp is an author, a blogger, a farmer’s wife, a homemaker, and a homeschooling mother. She’s the author of the book The Greatest Gift, a slow, unwrapping of the Gift that is Christ, our Savior.

hugs n’ blessings and happy wrappings!