Reflection for Dec. 8, 2019

What a beautiful way to enter into this weekend and special Feast Day on Monday. I so appreciate getting these Reflections. They give me "pause" as I prepare for my own weekend Homily!

May God Bless all the Good Sisters!

In Christ's Never-ending Love,

Father Bill Jacobs

Thanks Aggie for a beautiful reminder of those people who surrounded Jesus with love.

Good reflection Sis

Beautiful thoughts to ponder. Thank you Sister.

Dear Sister,

You truly got me to thinking, what kind of Grandmother am I? Am I a good influence on my children and their children? Do they know of my love for Jesus and His church?

As parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents we enjoyed your prayer for Joaquim and Anne!

Having lived both the experience of "parent," and "grandparent," I offer the following viewpoints, gleaned from living -- and praying -- through heartaches, hurts, and sufferings as the result of being 'parent' and 'grandparent,' as well as some pretty amazing and awesome encounters with joy and gladness because of my parent-and-grandparenthood. ** Every child is a "first born;" every child is a "last born --" never, ever to be another. ** There is no birth or no child "greater" or "lesser" than another.

** The spirit of faith is not taught, as a question-answer catechism, but is "caught," that is "passed on through the spirit-of-living-in-ordinary, everyday grace." JESUS expressed this as "living the spirit-of-the-Law (which is LOVE GOD, LOVE OTHERS), as opposed to straining and stressing ourselves to "live the letter-of-the-law," which is a form of legalism and idolatry, and is not rooted in LOVE, but in ego.

I further refer the reader to learn about and develop compassion toward children who are more and more frequently being diagnosed with learning or behavior disabilities, in whatever 'form' they come. In really listening to, learning from, and understanding others, who experience life differently than we do, we begin to move toward truly "loving," instead of judging or labeling others. We must pay attention to the Cries of the Children today. They are telling us something we need to hear, just as surely as the star above the homeless babe, has been telling us something all these years.

https://www.technology.org/2019/12/06/how-gene-mutation-causes-autism-and-intellectual-disability/

"St. Nicholas, Teach us How to Love Generously, from the Very Heart of All-Love-Life-Light, as you did."

Nice way to remember Our Blessed Mother....and don't forget our sister Ruth on this day.........