Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Tempus fugit

Has it really been a whole week since I last wrote? Wow. I truly had no idea! I got caught in the clutches of my chronic bronchitis with its attending coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath that made it difficult to work (which I had to), much less think! When I got home this past Sunday, Marilyn and Alicia fixed me up with some breathing treatments (thanks to Lily's breathing machine when she was really congested last year), some heavy-duty cough syrup and a "z-pac" of antibiotics that GPat happened to be hanging onto from one of her recent ailments.
I'm still not 100%, but I am well enough to at least take a deep breath now and then without coughing! Thank God for the women in my life. And I'm not talking only about Marilyn, Alicia, and Lily. I'm talking about Sarah. I'm talking about Mom. And GPat (Marilyn's mom). And my sisters-in-law, who have been there recently for Mom and me. And of course, I'm talking about OUR Mother, Mary, the Mother of God. She's put in more than a couple of good words to her Son for me lately.

Thanks to all of you, ladies! I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate all of you! Well, I can BEGIN, I just can't finish!

I'll try to begin putting up meditations again tomorrow night and get back on schedule. Thanks for your patience with me.

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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".