All Saints Day/All Souls Day

Nov 1:  All Saints....Nov 2: All Souls...two wonderful feasts.

All Saints we remember those holy women and men whom the Church has pronounced saints....yet I believe we are all saints.  I have always held that a saint is someone who tries to be the best s/he can be or as Matthew Kelly says: to be the best version of yourself.

Do you have someone special "up there"? Your namesake? Someone you admire for how s/he lived? How about your deceased friends, parents?  Absolutely!

Then we have All Souls Day, a consoling feast, when we remember our loved ones who have died.  We pray that they are enjoying eternal joy and peace.  We thank God for them, for who they were for us.  This holy day also is a reminder that we will be joining them....who knows when...so let's be the best we can be "one day at a time". 

Trust

Just returned from a drive of PRAISE and THANKS....autumn beauties.

I get these mediations by Fr. Richard Rohr....you may know of him...a great writer, spiritual guide, Franciscan and more.  I want to share the one I read today on TRUST...something that does not come easy to me.

He writes: "What you can rust is that you are being guided...you realize that God is letting this happen to you now to teach you something, to show 'you something, or to love you in a new way...
the Spirit in you allows you to trust that there's a reason for this; God is even in this...when a YES and not a NO first comes to your soul and to your heard, then you can see God in the moment and see guidance in this event being given to you by the provident hand of God.  You can trust nothing is wanting."

Is that not of God...for me right now, YES!

Take time to sit with this.

AUTUMN BLESSINGS.......

Finally....

I am "finally" back....praise the Lord.

I think I wrote this before....but I am SOOOOOO taken by the beauty of Autumn...those trees, those leaves just leave me awestruck, breathless....standing there with my mouth wide open...and a word of  praise, thanks, and awe.....

And we forget that we are just as....no...more beautiful....we too are God's "work of art"!  Let's be in awe of each other.

AUTUMN BLESSINGS......

CELEBRATE!

We have had so many days to celebrate something special:  St Therese, the Little Flower on the 3rd; Angels on the 2nd; my birthday on the 1st; and today, the 4th  Francis of Assisi....the 7th Holy Rosary.  I best stop there.

It is good to have days to celebrate...they balance the ordinary and the dark days.  Balance is ALWAYS the key to being happy:  work, play and pray; give and be open to receive gratefully... now you think of other ways to keep in balance.

The beauty of the Autumn season is beginning to show.  I love to drive and just take in the wonderful artistic work of our God...it is truly breathtaking.  And it is amazing how the trees "know" just the when and the how. 

I hope you find....no, TAKE time to marvel and enjoy this aspect of our marvelous creative divine Artist.