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As we kneel in prayer, desperate at times. We add to our prayers words like, “now, in time, immediately… As we pray, we worry and wonder if God will answer on time. And sometimes, we allow our fears to consume us.

But God always answers on time. God is never late. But we also have to realize, sometimes God answers just on time. And sometimes God answers in a way that we don’t understand. And sometimes God’s answer is No.

And we cry why!?

But the truth is sometimes God’s answer is simply beyond our capability to understand. And it is then that we have to Trust in God’s Love for us. We have to accept that we may never fully understand God’s answer until we get to Heaven. But we will understand.

And we have to Trust that God loves us, and He loves the person we are praying for. God will never let us down. In fact, God is the one person who will never let us down.

So we need to put our hand in God’s once again and keep praying no matter what! Yell if you need. Be angry… But don’t stop talking to God. He’s a Big God; He can take it.

And know, that one day, we will come out on the other side of our suffering with our Faith even bigger and deeper than it was before.

“Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. For our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name. Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you.”-Psalm 33:20-22

What is hope? Hope is a Gift of God. It’s a knowledge in our soul that things will get better. It starts in our soul and spreads through our hearts and minds. Our hope is in the Lord.

Hope is something though that we need to hold onto, or we will lose it. And if we want to keep it, we must never let our souls grow hard or cold. Because if we do, our hearts will also. And our “hope in the Lord”, will die.

And we need hope. We can’t exist without it. If you need hope, call on Jesus today and ask for it. He will answer 🙂

While Praying the Rosary, I saw many people sitting in church pews in Ukraine. Many of them were children. Mary, our Blessed Mother, has a special place in Her Heart for Ukraine.

There has been much debate in our country as to whether we are helping or hurting by providing so much military aid to Ukraine. I don’t really have an answer to that question.

But the question I can answer is this: Should we send comfort aid to Ukraine?And here is the answer: It is never wrong to send blankets, medicine and food to those in need. Jesus meant it when He said we should “love our neighbors”.

And we can Pray for those in Ukraine. For the children, for the adults and for the soldiers. All of them. For soft hearts, for comfort and for strength. For courage and a faith that can not be dimished in such difficult times.

And for what they need so desperately: Hope. Hope In The Lord. Hope In The Future that awaits them. A future provided by the God that loves them so.

And Sometimes God comes just in time 🙂

^” Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Then the word of the Lord came to him:  “Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.”  So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, “Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?” As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.”

“As surely as the Lord your God lives,” she replied, “I don’t have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.”

“Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.  For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land.’”

^” She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family.”-1 Kings 7:15

“You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!  Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?” – James 2:19-20

So many of us believe that Jesus is God, and yet we do our own thing, whatever we want. Instead of what God wants.  That’s like the verse above, even the demons believe in God, but they do what they do what they whatever they want.

We, on the other hand, can give our lives to Christ and do Christ’s work on this earth. 

It’s our choice, given to us by God Himself.

“God teach me to hold what is true long enough to ask what it will do to the soul in front of me”-Gardener’s Call

Sharing the truth is vitally important. But asking ourselves the above question is also important!

We need to really think about what we are going to say, why we are going to say it and if it truly helps the person in front of us.

God gave us a mouth to speak, but we need to use it wisely!

Today is the 25th anniversary of September 11, a day we remember. A day we all, as one nation under God, cried out to the Lord to help us. To save us. To comfort us.

And God did.

But how quickly we have forgotten, as a nation, how important God is to all of us.  How quickly our gratitude has turned to apostasy.  

As we remember all those who died and the selfless courage of those who ran in to help, let us also remember how important God was to each of us on that day.  And how important God is today.

It is God that united us as a nation once again.  Just as it was God who we all turned to, as one nation under God, for help on that terrible, tragic day.

Peer pressure is a hard thing to resist these days. And I’m not just talking about high school, I’m talking about adults in the workplace. How often do we refrain from saying what we think because we are afraid of how others will react? How often are we afraid to speak the truth, and there is only one, because we are afraid of how others will react to it? Especially during a time where everyone says “my truth” and yet there’s only one truth. God’s.

And when we are out in the world, how often do we hear the Name of Jesus mentioned? We all want Him to be our Savior and bring us to Heaven, and yet we don’t mention His name in public.

Somehow, even the mention of Jesus Christ’s Name has become something that we are afraid to do in the work place, in the grocery store, shopping, and whenever we are out in public. And yet it is Jesus’s Name that we call on when ever we are in need or trouble.

In other countries, the mere mention of Jesus’s Name may put someone’s life in danger, but they do it anyway. Here, the only problem may be a bit of peer pressure. What does that make us?

We need to change this-now! It’s our responsibility to do so! And let’s face it, we are the first ones to tell our children that they need to stand up to peer pressure. But we need to set the example and do so ourselves!

How? Find a way to mention Jesus’s Name in public today. And tomorrow and the next day. If we expect Jesus to help us; we need to start standing for Him!

Christ’s Light :). We can either choose to be encouraged or refuse to see it!

Holiness is defined by many “to be set apart for a sacred purpose and to be completely 100% morally pure.  Always” 

We may, and should, strive to be Holy.

But only God is truly Holy.  In Jesus’s Name Amen 🙂