One Of The Most Moving Posts I've Ever Read

I Was There To Serve Them

I just HAD to share this.  Warning: You might need a few tissues.

Something I'd Like To Share

I don't drive, due to my perceptual disability and poor co-ordination, but I'd like to share a prayer from Thyra Ferre Bjorn's book, "Mama's Way."

"Father,

     Help me to drive so I won't endanger others,

 and others to drive so they won't endanger me.
 And take the wheel and drive with me, so I can

 feel completely protected."

I think that, if I were able to drive, I would offer that prayer before starting out.  At least, I hope I would.

Sibling Kitties

Before we had Winky, Mom and I had Heather, and before we had Heather, we had Ollie and Cleo, who were brother and sister... they really were siblings.  

Ollie was more talkative (meowative?) than Cleo.  Quite often, he would stand in front of  Mom and/or me and make a speech.
"Meow, meow, meow, meow," and so on.

When he finished, Cleo would give one single "Meow."

I used to say, "Ollie does the invocation and Cleo does the 'amen'. "

Part Of A Conversation

Once, during a discussion about abortion, I said, "There is never any good reason for an abortion.  It might be best, in some cases, for the mother to give the baby up for adoption, but abortion is never the answer."

"The trouble with you," my friend [yes, we were friends, but we drifted apart] said, "is that you allow your religion to influence your thinking."

I looked right at her and responded, "Well, if it didn't influence my thinking, it wouldn't be much of a religion, would it?"

A Good Day To Be Sick

Today is a day of rest in a different sense... it's a day of BED rest.  I've got a cold. 

Headache... on and off.

Stuffed nose.

Coughing.

In a word... BLECH!

But in a way I'm ALMOST glad.  After all, today we pray in a special way for the Souls in Purgatory, and I can really help them by offering up my sickness.  So November 2nd is a good day to be sick!

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

Looking for some great Catholic blogs?  Want to share your own? Hop on over to RAnn's blog for  Sunday Snippets!

Semper Gaudete! : Reading an Entire Gospel in One Sitting

Semper Gaudete! : I'm SO Glad I Can Read This Online!

Semper Gaudete! : A Little Gift?

Semper Gaudete! : One-Member Clubs Revisited

Semper Gaudete! : The Last Bit of Peanut Butter in The Jar

Semper Gaudete! : Winky and the Computer

Semper Gaudete! : Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

Books, (except Sunday books) are grouped by author, and not necessarily in the order read.

"Love God And Do What You Please"

by St. Alphonsus Liguori

adapted by M. J. Huber

[spiritual reading]
a favorite of mine; thank God it wasn't one of the books
lost when I moved!

"Blueberry Muffins"
by Colleen Spiro
[nonfiction]
(Kindle Book)

{Sunday books}

Bible books read this week:

"Judges"
"Jonah"
"Titus"
"Ruth"
"Micah"

"The Gospel According to Matthew"

"The Gospel According to Mark"
"The Gospel According to Luke"

"Girls' Clubs
Their Organization and Management" #
by Helen Josephine Ferris
[nonfiction]
(free online book)
{carried over from last week}

"Elsie's Girlhood"
{carried over from last week}
by Martha Finley
[children's fiction, Christian, (Protestant)]


"The Taste of Spruce Gum" #
by Jacqueline Jackson
[children/YA fiction]
(openlibrary.org loan)
{carried over from last week}

"Papa's Wife"

"Papa's Daughter"

{carrying over into next week}

by Thyra Ferre Bjorn

[fiction, Christian (Protestant) themes]

"Love and Knishes
An Irrepressible Guide to Jewish Cooking"
by Sara Kasdan
[nonfiction, Jewish]
(openlibrary.org loan)