Back Up

My daughter's graduation dance was today.

After spending a great deal of time in preparation the day has finally arrived.

Hair done up just so, make-up applied just right, dresses fitted and flowing.

I was invited to join the festivities by way of taking some photos before the formal event. As my daughter and her good friend passed me to stand for their photos, I snapped this.

The look from the back was just as striking as the front.

How often do we stop to admire the great works that our Lord sets before us, from all sides?

Life is three dimensional, some may argue even four dimensional. Yet, we look at this world with eyes trained on what is before us.


Take some time today to look behind.  Great beauty awaits.
It's God's gift to you, if only you take the time.

Trinity Explained

Trinity is a rich and complicated concept for most.  But not for our little friends. 

Before we even started one astute little guy suggested that Trinity was the sign of the cross - what a great intro.  During our dialogue Homily we talked about people having more than one identity - two of our friends stood up and demonstrated that they are 'friends', 'hockey players' and 'students'.  So Trinity is the name for God's three identities.  How easy is that? 

When asked to describe Trinity, our friends came up with many great responses but then the Spirit led one new friends, a really young new friend (3 or 4 years old), to take her three bracelets and place them on the floor in a traditional Trinity setting - gotta love how Spirit works!

Then came the fun part - I had made play dough for that morning and asked our friends to sculpt a likeness of the Holy Trinity.

Trinity is really not that complicated.  It can take the shape of three abstract human-esque forms, or three joined hearts, or a triangle with figures on each point, or three joined circles, three crosses, or 'un coccinelle' ( a ladybug - with three spots) - and my favorite - three jelly beans (a remnant of Easter teaching).

Happy Play Time!

and God bless the person who came up with the idea of play dough.

Unsaid

The real living of a human life is to live openly, honestly and try not to leave too much unsaid.  If you speak in truth, speak with integrity, and speak out of love through your Spirit, you can't go wrong - no worries about hurting others and leaving those things unsaid.

The trick is to learn to live in that truth.

Interview

My youngest daughter had left her resume with the same employer who had employed both of her sisters.

While grocery shopping this week, the store owner said to my husband, "You better buy lots of groceries, since we are employing all three of your girls."

Confused, my husband responded, "Excuse me?"

Then the store owner said, "Oh , yeah - can you have your daughter here for an interview on Thursday?"

As a post script the interview consisted on two questions, "What's your favorite subject in school" and "When can you start?"

Called to Be

God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.
--Mother Teresa




In the end, faith is what we share.

Fortunes are won and lost. Success is fleeting. Recognition but a moment in time.

Answering God's call to be faithful is lasting all the way to eternity.  What more can we ask for?

Growing Up Quickly

The Angelus

Pray with me.

 

Leader:        The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary 

 

All:                  And she conceived of the Holy Spirit. 

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. 

Leader:        Behold the handmaiden of the Lord

All:                  Be it done unto me according to Thy word. 

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. 

Leader:        And the Word was made Flesh

All:                  And dwelt amongst us. 

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. 

Leader:        Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray: 

Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection, through the same Christ Our Lord.

Amen.