GRACEFUL LADY

Earlier this week, I had the wonderful opportunity to visit Knock and spend time in the company of my Spiritual Mother.

It was a form of Retreat and yet I felt myself going forward not backward.

From my earliest days I've experienced help and encouragement coming from a source outside myself and I believe it is the Blessed Virgin Mary, who has been looking after me and family and friends, always.

Strange to have such a friend and yet not always feel close to Her...

It's an honour to have her as my Spiritual Mother and  realise how much closer I could be.

Mary is always close to us and we have only to look at the world and all the places she visits in her

efforts to bring us close to God.

Perhaps now is a good reminder to me and to all of us to build up a loving relationship with our

Heavenly Mother, our Lady full of Grace.

Go with the Flow...

Life can be simple or complicated.  A lot depends on how we look at life...

Do I see a beautiful world occupied by beautiful people, OR  am I taken up with the flaws and weaknesses in human kind.

Leonard Coan's song comes to mind... the cracks in human kind is where the love gets in.

The person who can learn to somehow put love into everything they do is happiest person in the world.

It's more simple than we might imagine...  a little patience / compassion / understanding are the secret of a happy life.

One step at a time. No hurry / no worry, just love.

Be a Hero...

It's easy to be ordinary... never to stick out or cause a fuss and yet, life can present challenges.

What does one do when faced with a challenge to stand up and be counted?

In Ireland and perhaps many other countries, people have moved away from being 'ordinary'.

We have so much knowledge and information that in a sense, we could and some do, change the world.

Am I such a person?  Am I willing to stand up and be counted for what I believe?

Is God important in my life and why?

This is a great time for all of us who have faith and believe in God the Father / the Son and the Holy Spirit.  We have enough knowledge and faith to save the world.

All we have to do is become a Hero and stand up for what we believe!