Left or _______ ?

I wish for the strength and determination to not continue to repeat the same mistakes.  No matter how ingrained my behaviors are, I want to be able to push through and do the right thing, no matter what.  I keep telling my children- "It's not about being right, it's about doing the right thing."  It's time for me to really start living this, that is my wish!

Prayer

To quote the Beatles: "When I find myself in times of trouble..."  this prayer always works and not just for me.  This prayer has helped find jobs, maintain one very important job when all hope seemed lost, helped create a life, cure an ear and most importantly strengthened faith.  It is a novena, that you say 9 times a day for 8 days and on the 9th day your prayer shall be answered.  The only caveat is that you need to pass it on to someone else who can use it, once your prayers have been answered.


May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved through the world; 
Now and Forever.  Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us, St. Jude help for the hopeless, pray for us.



Now, don't get me wrong, your prayers will be answered- no doubt- but perhaps in slightly different ways than you expected.  That's the funny thing about faith- you can't have expectations you just have to "...let it be."

I know that there are times in all of our lives that we have prayed for something so specific and it didn't turn out exactly how we had hoped.  What prayers are more important and more necessary than those that ask for a miracle?  The true test of faith is being able to see past the immediate outcome, and realize that these miracles do occur, but sometimes they take the face, the sound, the breadth of something all together different, unexpected to us- not to Him.  I am still waiting for my miracle, as I guess many others are too.  I know my prayers were heard sitting alone in that E.R. waiting room, because I feel the much needed love and support and grace of God daily.  Was the outcome exactly what I had hoped for?  Not in the least.  Do I think that my prayer will be answered?  100% yes!  Will I be able to recognize this miracle when I see it?  You betcha, because I am looking for it.  If you lose faith and you stop looking for miracles, how can you find them?




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Like leaves along a trail...

Okay, so there's really no new wish here.  Instead, I am taking quotes and thoughts of hope and encouragement and scattering them along my path, and anyone else's path who may need them.  

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."
~ Nelson Mandela



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"Success is how high you bounce
when you hit bottom."  ~ George S. Patton

"Although the world is very full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."  ~ Helen Keller

        

    "To the world you are but one person, but to one person you can be the world." 

                                                                                                              ~ Anonymous

Newest wish

Today, I am making a wish for someone else, someone close to me.  I wish for wisdom and confidence.  Wisdom, to select the best treatment for his illness, and confidence- so that he will fully commit to the treatment and believe in it's healing power.


There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies.
~Friedrich Nietzche



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