Thanksgiving

This is the first family photo without my Dad. Thanksgiving was a beautiful day but my Dad's larger than life presence was greatly missed. We are still a family, a chain with a missing link. I know he was watching and as usual laughing with us. Happy Thanksgiving to my wonderful family!!! I love you!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all!!! May God bless you and keep you. So many things to be thankful for in this Country, today let us be thankful we are here instead of overseas where chaos is running rampent. God bless all the hostages, the dead and their families and God bless America!!! I will be with my loving family,which I am ever so grateful for ! Gotta run...baking, baking and more baking. Have a great day!!!

A Sacred Event

To see someone home and I mean our real home in Heaven, is the most incredible experience that I have ever had the privileged to participate in. My Father's last week of life was lived with my siblings, my Mom and myself. We left our homes and families to see my Dad to his final home. It was six days of ups and downs. We knew he was dying and we cried, we laughed at our memories and most importantly we prayed, we prayed hard. We were diligent in this spiritual battle. Because it is a battle at the end of one's life. You have forces of good and evil that both fight for the soul. That week, what I saw, what I experienced will be ever etched upon my mind and my soul. We were fortunate to have some incredible priests that were with us each day. The Latin Mass was said at my Dad's bedside, he had Extreme Unction everyday along with confession and communion. One night one of the priests was keeping vigil at an abortion clinic he was finished at 4 a.m. and knowing we would be up, stopped over and had adoration at my Dad's bedside. How lucky we were to have such devoted priests. This is what it is all about and these priests knew that.
I know we stood at the threshold of this life and the next and we felt it. It is a sacred place to be and one that should be treated as such. I thank our Lord for this life changing experience and I do mean life changing. No not just because my Father is gone but because I was there. I was at that threshold and I along with my siblings and Mom helped my Dad fight that good fight. We did not allow evil in and I can tell you it was most definitely banging on the door and sometimes creeping in the windows. We said NO, you shall not pass, you have no power here. It was a fight well fought and we couldn't have done without first and foremost Our Lord, Our Lady, all the Saints and Angels and of course each other. We were always a close family but this has bonded us beyond mere words can describe.
So much happened that week and I know I will never be able to explain it to anyone who was not there but I am grateful for it and I am honored and privileged that our good and gracious Lord allowed a sinner such as me to be present at such a Holy event. I pray that I will die as my Dad did. He showed us how to live by his generous heart and charitable ways. His heart overflowed with love for his wife, his children, his faith, and the unborn. That week he also showed us how to die with dignity and grace. He was in so much pain and he said," I offer this up for Mommy." As the pain intensified he didn't complain he simply said, "Oh Boy!!" I will forever love this man who has taken so little and given so much. This world has lost a great one but he remains in our hearts and we will carry on his legacy which is our Faith and to stand up for the unborn to be their voice. We won't let you down Daddy, we promise.

Wordless Wednesday

Giving their weekly oral reports on a Saint.

When I am gone, release me, let me go. I have so many things to see and do. You mustn't tie yourself to me with tears. Be thankful for our many beautiful years. I gave to you my love, you can only guess how much you gave to me in happiness. I thank you for the love you each have shown, But now it is time I travel on alone. So grieve awhile for me, if grieve you must, then let your grief be comforted by trust. It is only for a time that we must part, so bless the memories within your heart. I won't be far away, for life goes on. So if you need me, call and I will come. Though you can't see or touch me I'll be near and if you listen with your heart you'll hear, all my love around you soft and clear. And then, when you must come this way alone, I'll greet you with a smile and say ....Welcome Home!!!!

I Believe

I believe that deep down inside we all want to smile and to be good and want goodness to happen to others. Somewhere in recent times we lost God and with it went all sense of right and wrong and wanting the good for society and others. If you take a look at where we were just 20 years ago to where we are now in terms of our culture, good verses actual evils, it is amazing at how far evil has come. I believe that most people have become desensitized to this evil because it is so widely accepted. I believe that there is still good in most people but it is suppressed by this evil. There are still many of us left that can see the blatant evil and that means that we must stand up even stronger then before and we must fight this evil and pray for all the lost sheep. I believe nothing short of Our Lord coming down will change this culture of death and I believe this is a spiritual war. We must put on our armors and fight the good fight. It is harder then ever before because we will be persecuted but we know the truth and to much is given much is expected. The recent election is a sign of how far we have drifted away from God and as sick as I was over it I can honestly say it has made me reevaluate my own life and ask myself, "Have I done enough?" My answer is no I have not done enough and I must get recharged and pound the pavement even harder for the unborn who have no voice. I know there were other issues in this campaign but I cannot tell you what they were because nothing else matters to me. Without life there are no other issues. I believe that we are in for some rough times but our Lord will see us through.

Daddy

It seems strange to me that life goes on when mine and my families have come to a stand still. Logically, yes, life goes on but when you lose someone so dear to you your life actually stops for a brief period of time. When I feel overcome with sadness I can hear my Father saying, "don't be ridiculous, life does go on and so should you. Live every breath as if it were your last. Praise God for that breath and put a smile on your face. Give, give and give to others so they may smile and live with joy. Not everyone has the precious gift that you have been given..to know that we are living for Heaven and nothing else matters. Not that game or that not so nice person or that problem we deem so great that it occupies our time,time that is so easily taken away from our Creator. Look at the good in everyone because it does exist and if someone is so far out there then spend time in prayer for that person but never let that person's problems take you away from God...never speak ill of them. Recognize the problem and then move on...always forward!!! Your time here is limited and best spent living for Heaven. Yes you will hurt and you will carry your crosses but carry them well because you have been given the gift of Faith that so many claim to obtain but very few truly have. Lean on your Faith and know that we will be together in the mansion I have prepared for all of us. Pray, Hope and don't worry."
Thank you Daddy, I love you always and forever!!!!