a spirit of simplicity

the fun I stumbled across this old picture of my sister and I circa 1983! We are on a ferry in Washington state. I was living there and she was visiting after graduating from high school.  the good I also found this old picture of me. I think we were near Port Townsend, WA. the random I'm just sending out a bunch of good luck wishes to those running the Boston marathon today. I know a few people running including our own Tamar. It's a terrible day here...windy, freezing cold, and rain/sleet/snow.... You just never know what the weather will bring for marathon day.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ t Teach me, Lord, your way that I may walk in your truth, single-hearted and revering your name. Psalm 85:11 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

The random My sister, my brother, and myself about a gazillion years ago. I think it was one Easter morning probably around 1970. ~ the good Yesterday was Divine Mercy Sunday. I went to the St. John Paul II Shrine in Salem, MA where a special Mass and dedication service was held in honor of Cardinal O'Malley giving a relic of  Pope John Paul II to the shrine.  It was very moving. ~ the fun When Bonnie, Verne and I were at the plant nursery last week Verne climbed up into a big red chair that was there for display. He's always fun to be with!

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.  Jude 1:2 Every word we speak, every step we take, every prayer we utter is to be with mercy toward our neighbor.  That is how we are called to love the Lord - With love for our neighbors. 

That favorite boy of mine and his mother and I went to a plant nursery up near their house on Monday. We walked around in there for nearly 2 hours! The day had started with snow so we just pretended it was summer and plants were blooming all everywhere. I came home with three very interesting ferns and a white geranium.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ It's late on Easter night. When I was a young teenage girl I used to listen to the record Jesus Christ Superstar...a lot.  I grew up in the seventies...we had records and hippies. I think it was the movie that put Jesus into a person I could relate to for the first time.  I had heard all about how He came down to earth as a man...but I couldn't see it.  He was sort of dream-like and far away and saying lots of stuff  I didn't pay much attention to like the priests at the Masses I sporadically attended.  But seeing the movie Jesus Christ Superstar on TV one Saturday afternoon turned him into someone I could relate to, and I saw, for the first time, what was meant by He came down as man. I went to the record store and bought the original album  which differed slightly from the movie soundtrack. I listened to that record over and over and over. It was a double record set and it was

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ t You formed my inmost being; You knit me in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am wonderfully made; wonderful are your works! My bones are not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, fashioned in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw me unformed; in your book all are written down; my days were shaped, before one came to be.  Psalm 139:13-16 I am 55 this day. -halfway through my fifties and moving at a steady clip. In this weeks Boston Pilot newspaper is THIS article  about the Mass held before the March for our Lives in Boston on March 24th. He spoke about the importance of gun laws and how it is grace that calls us to speak as prophets and not surrender to fear and cynicism.  It really touched me and makes me proud to proclaim my Catholic faith.  There is something very satisfying to me about doing laundry.  Saturday morning I wa