Monday, August 07, 2006
Everybody likes good news... (answered prayer)
Well, thanks to anyone who prayed for Monica. It seems the storm has passed. She told me a few days ago that the suicidal feelings have lifted. They were so strong for so long that I was really worried. I even called a suicide prevention hotline....
Praise be to God for giving her relief. It is good to hear her laugh.
Praise be to God for giving her relief. It is good to hear her laugh.
Sunday, August 06, 2006
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Birthdays
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Well, I had a great day yesterday. Mark and Katie took me and Monica out for my birthday. We had a couple glasses of wine at his house first and I got the most pleasant buzz. We ordered more drinks when we got there and had a great sit down dinner. I was floating on air. My spirit was blessed as I counted out loud my blessings to them. Katie asked grand questions that drew the best out of me, as usual, she is a special one, she is.
After morning prayers this morning at Mark's house I told him that I was a rich man. My life is full of blessings. I am content.
So here I am at Webjoy reading blogs and getting ready to play poker ar PartyPoker.net. Hey, everybody, have a great day!
Well, I had a great day yesterday. Mark and Katie took me and Monica out for my birthday. We had a couple glasses of wine at his house first and I got the most pleasant buzz. We ordered more drinks when we got there and had a great sit down dinner. I was floating on air. My spirit was blessed as I counted out loud my blessings to them. Katie asked grand questions that drew the best out of me, as usual, she is a special one, she is.
After morning prayers this morning at Mark's house I told him that I was a rich man. My life is full of blessings. I am content.
So here I am at Webjoy reading blogs and getting ready to play poker ar PartyPoker.net. Hey, everybody, have a great day!
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Congratulations to Lisa!!
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Well, Lisa fell in love. And she's gonna get married in October. Yoo hoo!!
Lucky gal.
Way to go, Lisa. May God bless you in your marriage. May it be a reflection of the beautiful love of God.
Well, Lisa fell in love. And she's gonna get married in October. Yoo hoo!!
Lucky gal.
Way to go, Lisa. May God bless you in your marriage. May it be a reflection of the beautiful love of God.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
More prayer
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We could all use more prayer, right?
Well, please pray for my daughter's car to be repaired quickly and inexpensively. She's had a couple of breakdowns recently.
Pray for Jonathan and I. He's my second oldest son who just got back from college. Pray that our relationship will be blessed.
Continue to pray for Monica's depression to lift. It has improved some, thank God.
Pray that I will maintain a humble spirit as God blesses me in different ways. Pray that I would grow in holiness and gain in wisdom and knowledge. That I would be blessed with many graces from God.
And I pray, dear reader, for you. That God would bless your health and finances. That he would give you love, faith, a soft heart towards him, wisdom, peace, a spirit of repentance, righteousness and humility. That you would be granted eternal life as you totally submit your life to him and obey him in every way.
Thank you for praying, my friends.
We could all use more prayer, right?
Well, please pray for my daughter's car to be repaired quickly and inexpensively. She's had a couple of breakdowns recently.
Pray for Jonathan and I. He's my second oldest son who just got back from college. Pray that our relationship will be blessed.
Continue to pray for Monica's depression to lift. It has improved some, thank God.
Pray that I will maintain a humble spirit as God blesses me in different ways. Pray that I would grow in holiness and gain in wisdom and knowledge. That I would be blessed with many graces from God.
And I pray, dear reader, for you. That God would bless your health and finances. That he would give you love, faith, a soft heart towards him, wisdom, peace, a spirit of repentance, righteousness and humility. That you would be granted eternal life as you totally submit your life to him and obey him in every way.
Thank you for praying, my friends.
Monday, June 12, 2006
It's been awhile...
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Here are some more prayer requests.
Please pray for my friend, Monica, who is suffering from severe depression. She is bipolar, like me. Pray that the Lord will lift her depression right away, she is suffering so much, the poor thing.
Pray for everything to go smoothly in the financing of my son's tai chi career. He hopes to become an instructor. Pray that the loan I'm co-signing for will be paid off in a timely manner.
Pray for my friends Barry, Margaret and Hugo to be abundandantly blessed during the Leanne Payne conference this year.
Pray for me to increase in my personal sanctity and for my income to be plentiful and that I will gain in wisdom and understanding and health.
And I pray for you, dear reader, to be likewise blessed by the hand of God. Take care.
Here are some more prayer requests.
Please pray for my friend, Monica, who is suffering from severe depression. She is bipolar, like me. Pray that the Lord will lift her depression right away, she is suffering so much, the poor thing.
Pray for everything to go smoothly in the financing of my son's tai chi career. He hopes to become an instructor. Pray that the loan I'm co-signing for will be paid off in a timely manner.
Pray for my friends Barry, Margaret and Hugo to be abundandantly blessed during the Leanne Payne conference this year.
Pray for me to increase in my personal sanctity and for my income to be plentiful and that I will gain in wisdom and understanding and health.
And I pray for you, dear reader, to be likewise blessed by the hand of God. Take care.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
It's June already...
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Well, it's been awhile since my last post. Last year I didn't post anything after Easter for months. Kinda slow this time of year, I guess.
My friend, Monica, needs your prayers. She has bipolar, too. She is suffering from depression lately, a bad one. Please pray for it to lift.
As for me and bipolar, a strange and wonderful thing has happened to me. I haven't been on meds since March or so. And I feel great. I prayed for healing when this priest from Canada came to give a healing mass. I don't know why, but I am symptom free. I do sleep and lay around a lot and that may be taking a lot of stress off of me and improving my mood. So, pray for me to continue in this blessing and if the symptoms reappear pray that I will take the meds again without being foolish. Thanks.
Since we are talking about praying... My roommate has become grinchy about my kids visiting. Please pray that God will soften his heart and that my kids won't get on his nerves. Thanks.
Well, that's all I can think of to publish today. Take care, dear readers!
Well, it's been awhile since my last post. Last year I didn't post anything after Easter for months. Kinda slow this time of year, I guess.
My friend, Monica, needs your prayers. She has bipolar, too. She is suffering from depression lately, a bad one. Please pray for it to lift.
As for me and bipolar, a strange and wonderful thing has happened to me. I haven't been on meds since March or so. And I feel great. I prayed for healing when this priest from Canada came to give a healing mass. I don't know why, but I am symptom free. I do sleep and lay around a lot and that may be taking a lot of stress off of me and improving my mood. So, pray for me to continue in this blessing and if the symptoms reappear pray that I will take the meds again without being foolish. Thanks.
Since we are talking about praying... My roommate has become grinchy about my kids visiting. Please pray that God will soften his heart and that my kids won't get on his nerves. Thanks.
Well, that's all I can think of to publish today. Take care, dear readers!
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Easter was wonderful!
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Well, Easter week was wonderful. I did so much....
I hung out with a bunch of college kids a lot. We went out of town to a campfire and sang under the stars. I read my inspirational poetry and it was well received. They really liked the one about St. Monica. That mildly surprised and delighted me. Mark said hearing them recited by the campfire was like a spiritual experience and he's heard all my poems before. Can't get better than that for a poet.
All the adult Catholic babies got baptized or confirmed and received first communion. What a joy to see them start out on their new journey of faith. My friend, Monica, went with me to Easter Vigil, the long mass that is the climax of the Catholic year (that's where they got baptized, confirmed and received first communion) and she loved it. Said it went by so fast. She really liked that the mass starts out in the dark.... I love the smell of the incense and the fact that we can all share the Eucharist as one in celebration of Jesus' resurrection.
Today, a week later, after mass, the new Catholics shared how the Easter week events shaped their new lives in the Lord. We sat outside under the spring sun and cool breeze enjoying it all. It was beautiful. That's what I like about the Catholic Church, there is so much spiritual beauty....
Last night we went back out under the stars. This time we had a retired nun and Peter, a seventy something young man with a beautiful singing voice with us. They have their liberal lack of insight, but are wonderful people nonetheless. We celebrated Earth day. I proposed a toast to the good earth. Thankfully no one prayed to the so-called goddess.... That would have grieved me. We drank a little wine and had cheese, crackers and fruit and sang a few songs. The stars were out in fine form which is such a novelty for us city dwellers. Saw Orion's belt and his bow and arrow. Another beautiful night with good people.
I hope you had a good and inspiring Easter. I hope the new life of Christ's resurrection has and will find its way into your heart. And remember the Catholic Church celebrates Easter for a few weeks so don't think it's over. It's just begun!
Well, Easter week was wonderful. I did so much....
I hung out with a bunch of college kids a lot. We went out of town to a campfire and sang under the stars. I read my inspirational poetry and it was well received. They really liked the one about St. Monica. That mildly surprised and delighted me. Mark said hearing them recited by the campfire was like a spiritual experience and he's heard all my poems before. Can't get better than that for a poet.
All the adult Catholic babies got baptized or confirmed and received first communion. What a joy to see them start out on their new journey of faith. My friend, Monica, went with me to Easter Vigil, the long mass that is the climax of the Catholic year (that's where they got baptized, confirmed and received first communion) and she loved it. Said it went by so fast. She really liked that the mass starts out in the dark.... I love the smell of the incense and the fact that we can all share the Eucharist as one in celebration of Jesus' resurrection.
Today, a week later, after mass, the new Catholics shared how the Easter week events shaped their new lives in the Lord. We sat outside under the spring sun and cool breeze enjoying it all. It was beautiful. That's what I like about the Catholic Church, there is so much spiritual beauty....
Last night we went back out under the stars. This time we had a retired nun and Peter, a seventy something young man with a beautiful singing voice with us. They have their liberal lack of insight, but are wonderful people nonetheless. We celebrated Earth day. I proposed a toast to the good earth. Thankfully no one prayed to the so-called goddess.... That would have grieved me. We drank a little wine and had cheese, crackers and fruit and sang a few songs. The stars were out in fine form which is such a novelty for us city dwellers. Saw Orion's belt and his bow and arrow. Another beautiful night with good people.
I hope you had a good and inspiring Easter. I hope the new life of Christ's resurrection has and will find its way into your heart. And remember the Catholic Church celebrates Easter for a few weeks so don't think it's over. It's just begun!
Thursday, April 13, 2006
New York Hack
http://newyorkhack.blogspot.com
Just found an interesting blog. It's the perspective of a female New York Yellow cab driver.
Just found an interesting blog. It's the perspective of a female New York Yellow cab driver.
Easter is coming!
I actually like this time of year in some ways more than Christmas. It's springtime, of course, but there is also the lack of childhood woundedness that the Yuletide season awakens. Maybe some decade I'll get over all that stuff. May the grace of God through his Church heal me from all wounds.
All kinds of things are happening this year. I took three days off, the three high holy days of the Triduum. Today is the first day. I slept in and did Morning Prayers with the people at Church. Then I'm going to a barbeque and then to Holy Thursday mass and then Taize ( special type of contemplative prayer thru singing) under the stars afterwards.
Tomorrow I will go with folks from the Catholic Worker to do the Stations of the Cross out at the Nevada Test Site and then I'll watch my liberal friends protest and cross the no-trespass line and get arrested, praying for them to be converted to the right side (hehe- please, folks, no offense intended). Then Good Friday service, one of my favorites of the year, with its veneration of the Cross.
Then Saturday will be Morning Prayer again and then special time with the converts in RCIA. I'm also gonna take my son out to Macaroni Grill for his birthday around 2:00. (Pray for him, he needs godly influences in all areas) Then I'll pick up my friend, Monica, to go to Holy Saturday Easter vigil mass for the culmination of the season. Easter Sunday I will rest and go to Mark's barbeque. Then I'll have Monday off to recover, heh.... Hmm, maybe I'll try to have the kids over.
May your Easter be blessed! May you come to terms with the fact that the Creator of the Universe and of your very own soul suffered for you, died for you and rose again from the dead for you. May you be set free from the very things that tear at your soul and be found forever heaven bound living a life of love, good works and freedom from sin.
Happy Easter!
All kinds of things are happening this year. I took three days off, the three high holy days of the Triduum. Today is the first day. I slept in and did Morning Prayers with the people at Church. Then I'm going to a barbeque and then to Holy Thursday mass and then Taize ( special type of contemplative prayer thru singing) under the stars afterwards.
Tomorrow I will go with folks from the Catholic Worker to do the Stations of the Cross out at the Nevada Test Site and then I'll watch my liberal friends protest and cross the no-trespass line and get arrested, praying for them to be converted to the right side (hehe- please, folks, no offense intended). Then Good Friday service, one of my favorites of the year, with its veneration of the Cross.
Then Saturday will be Morning Prayer again and then special time with the converts in RCIA. I'm also gonna take my son out to Macaroni Grill for his birthday around 2:00. (Pray for him, he needs godly influences in all areas) Then I'll pick up my friend, Monica, to go to Holy Saturday Easter vigil mass for the culmination of the season. Easter Sunday I will rest and go to Mark's barbeque. Then I'll have Monday off to recover, heh.... Hmm, maybe I'll try to have the kids over.
May your Easter be blessed! May you come to terms with the fact that the Creator of the Universe and of your very own soul suffered for you, died for you and rose again from the dead for you. May you be set free from the very things that tear at your soul and be found forever heaven bound living a life of love, good works and freedom from sin.
Happy Easter!
Monday, April 03, 2006
Springtime in Las Vegas
Beautiful weather here. Got girls on my mind again. To avoid temptation I went to Spring Mountain State Park, went up a little hiking trail and found a soft spot where I laid my blanket out and prayed the rosary. The sun was bright, the air was cool and there were these birds who had a soft, sweet song. God's beauty is drink to the soul.
Still got wild thoughts about girls on my mind but the impulse to go chasing them is under control now. Tried to get the kids together for Texas Holdem today but Chris is not answering his phone- he just got a new job, Joshua has to work and Serenity was enjoying the pool on this sunny day. But she promised to have lunch with me tomorrow, an adequate compensation, maybe we'll go to TGI Friday's. Now that I got this neat car to drive maybe I'll go over the Chris's place and roust him up for a meal.
So the Lonely Man has been feeling lonely lately. Tell me, what do you do about your loneliness? Leave a comment....
Still got wild thoughts about girls on my mind but the impulse to go chasing them is under control now. Tried to get the kids together for Texas Holdem today but Chris is not answering his phone- he just got a new job, Joshua has to work and Serenity was enjoying the pool on this sunny day. But she promised to have lunch with me tomorrow, an adequate compensation, maybe we'll go to TGI Friday's. Now that I got this neat car to drive maybe I'll go over the Chris's place and roust him up for a meal.
So the Lonely Man has been feeling lonely lately. Tell me, what do you do about your loneliness? Leave a comment....
Thursday, March 09, 2006
New hot car!
Well, God blessed me with a beautiful 1997 Cadillac Seville Touring Sedan. It's really a sweet ride and looks so wonderful. That Town Car I looked at had a lot of great features but it looked like a plain sedan. There is nothing like the body lines of a Cadillac.
The car has pretty good mileage and is clean as a whistle. Such a contrast to my old car.
I was dreaming about getting a newer Cadillac just a few mos. ago (my Cadillac was so beat up I was getting embarassed) and never expected that I would actually be able to do it so fast. But my recent raises came in such a perfect time that I can now afford it. Praise the goodness of the Lord.
What has God blessed you with lately? Please share the good news.
The car has pretty good mileage and is clean as a whistle. Such a contrast to my old car.
I was dreaming about getting a newer Cadillac just a few mos. ago (my Cadillac was so beat up I was getting embarassed) and never expected that I would actually be able to do it so fast. But my recent raises came in such a perfect time that I can now afford it. Praise the goodness of the Lord.
What has God blessed you with lately? Please share the good news.
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Old dead car/ Hot new car
So my head gasket bit the dust this week I find out after I cough up $330 for a new water pump and the repair is priced at around $1500, so you know what that means for the old gray Caddie- hasta la vista, baby. She was a great car. Five years for $1500, not bad, ya know.
I just got approved for a $10,000 car loan! So I have to find a hot new Cadillac. But then again, I just looked at a 98 Lincoln Town Car with 60,000 miles that was mighty sweet. Doesnt look sexy like a Caddy, though. Has great power and is so smooth and has a great sound system. And under the hood it is so clean and glammed out. Hmm.
Chris, my oldest, and I are going to car shop tomorrow. Gonna check out the privately owned Caddies in the classifieds for a hottie.
Please pray for me to find the perfect car. Thanks in advance.
I just got approved for a $10,000 car loan! So I have to find a hot new Cadillac. But then again, I just looked at a 98 Lincoln Town Car with 60,000 miles that was mighty sweet. Doesnt look sexy like a Caddy, though. Has great power and is so smooth and has a great sound system. And under the hood it is so clean and glammed out. Hmm.
Chris, my oldest, and I are going to car shop tomorrow. Gonna check out the privately owned Caddies in the classifieds for a hottie.
Please pray for me to find the perfect car. Thanks in advance.
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