Monday, February 21, 2011

Happy Birthday, Mom!

I wanted to write a tribute to Mom, who turns 92 today! I can’t do it! It’s not that I don’t love Mom for everything she’s done for me (I mean besides giving birth to me!) or that she hasn’t had many accomplishments I could list. It’s just that everything I wrote sounded more like a eulogy than a tribute, and I don’t think she’s quite ready for a eulogy---maybe in 10 or 15 years. Sorry Mom, you’re just going to have to “settle” for a prayer, instead. Of course the prayer is probably more appreciated than anything else I could write anyway, right?

Lord Jesus, You have known Your Mother’s love and tender care so please hear our prayer for our own mother, your devoted daughter, on this,her special day:

Just as she gave life to her children and has given her best to protect us these many years, please protect her now and let her feel safe in the Light of Life that flows through You.

Take from her all her anxieties and fears and fulfill all of her wishes. If Your will is to refuse her any of those wishes, let even the refusals bring her comfort, as she has comforted her children even in her occasional refusals for our own good.

Though we, her children, can never repay her for all she has given us we have confidence that You will repay her for us one day when she rests in the sweet embrace of Your own Mother.

Amen.

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"I demand from you deeds of mercy, which are to arise out of love for Me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse or absolve yourself from it.

I am giving you three ways of exercising mercy toward your neighbor:
the first — by deed, the second — by word, the third — by prayer. In these three degrees is contained the fullness of mercy, and it is an unquestionable proof of love for Me. By this means a soul glorifies and pays reverence to My mercy.

Many souls ... are often worried because they do not have the material means with which to carry out an act of mercy. Yet spiritual mercy, which requires neither permissions nor storehouses, is much more meritorious and is within the grasp of every soul.

If a soul does not exercise mercy somehow or other, it will not obtain My mercy on the day of judgment. Oh, if only souls knew how to gather eternal treasure for themselves, they would not be judged, for they would forestall My judgment with their mercy".