Love gives up…to gain

February 29, 2012

source And so I fasted… never had before… now I can never not do it again. It was brimming with epiphany… and I want to share the experience with you… and ponder it in my heart… lock and key… in. my. heart. This is part 4, part 3 is here, 2 here, and it began […]

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Love gets the balance between the holy and the…well…you’ll see

February 28, 2012

source And I give my cares over to him. I try to breathe in peace…breathe out stress. I do it seven times. Seven’s a nice biblical number. No? This is part three of my 2 day Lenten fast. I don’t fast often, but too many little miracles of inspiration hit during this one not to […]

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Love does not miss birthdays

February 26, 2012

Happpy Smurfday Baby Sister!! A toddler underfoot and about to have twins. You all know how much I love her. Anyway, for 20 years or so it’s been a tradition to write “Gina is my sister poems”. And since today’s her birthday I’ll write one here for all the internets to see. And if you […]

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Love knows that fasting can bring us closer…to Love

February 23, 2012

source A little miracle I think… yielding strength through weakness… drawing me closer to Our Lord. This is part two of a series of some sweet revelation, borne from a simple Lenten fast. Part one is here – a little fasting doctrine and why I’m fasting to begin with. And I found the big thing […]

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Love hearts fasting for God

February 22, 2012

It begins with no food…just water. It derives from a Germanic word… the root of which means… to hold, to keep, to observe or to restrain. I remember when I was child, a Catholic. I knew I needed to fast for one hour before communion. I figured it was so Jesus wouldn’t get mixed up […]

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Love imparts wings to prayer…

February 21, 2012

beyond horizon’s concealment pawing through hinterlands of black light strives to be seen source before  light breaks spirit ascends knees to earth heart unbound source words…or just thoughts…cascade upward to heaven   uncloaked, unasked, unveiled… to keep secrets from One who knows all… not possible. beseeching, entreating, adjuring indebtedness acknowledged emplaced aside sovereignty lain softly […]

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Love says thank you to God 1,000 times (#’s 785-792)

February 20, 2012

I tweet a lot! And that image up there…that’s my wordle for my twitter tweets. The bigger the word the more I use it.  (I got the data here and the wordle here) It’s been a really hard year – and look at those two words I use the most! The top 5 things I […]

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