Thank you. Happy Thanksgiving Day. I count this forum as one of the special gifts God has given me. I appreciate and thank you all for the many prayers you offered when I have reached out. May God reward you all 100 fold for your kindness. Peace and blessings!
I have just returned from Holy Mass! Many, many reasons to be thankful. God bless you all, and pray for Cardinal Zen: I believe his case is to be decided soon. O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!
I feel the same miker. This little community is a blessing, and has been my anchor. In my heart of hearts I know that we are not here by chance.
Jo, what a lovely holy card, and warm thoughts. Right back to you! Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Happy Thanksgiving to all my forum friends and their families.
A happy and blessed Thanksgiving to all here. This day 32 years ago I was in California with my wife and daughter who was just one year old. We celebrated with a Thanksgiving dinner and good ol' pumpkin pie! We were staying somewhere between Los Angeles and Yosemite National Park. I would be very grateful for prayers that my marriage and family might be restored. Six years and some months ago my marriage brokedown. I continue to pray that it may be restored but I accept that it may never be restored and I accept the will of God for me. After my marriage collapsed I had a strong conversion to Catholicism. Any knowledge or insights I gained since were forged in the furnace of pain, suffering and repentence. Sometimes I say that I know what it is like to be in Hell. To have lost the love of one's life forever due to one's own faults. However, Jesus and Mary have made life bearable for me and, please God, He will deliver a healthy grandchild to my daughter next year. I have a son whom I have not seen in over six years and another whom I am in contact with but meet very rarely. My daughter returned to me by the grace and blessings of God and the intercession of our Blessed Mother. When I contemplate the Dormition and Assumption of Our Lady, I ask for the gift of a happy death. However, I often ask God, quizzically, if I can die a happy death in the event that I never again get to see my wife and son. I leave everything in God's hands.
Prayers. For what it’s worth, I’m in a similar situation. After 26 years of marriage, my wife left me after I was disabled by strokes. I haven’t seen her or my two younger adult children in five and a half years. In her defense, she had a manic reaction to an antidepressant medication and I think she still doesn’t realize what she’s done, but I’m certainly not without fault either. I honestly don’t expect to be reunited with my family in this life. I offer this up so that I may see all of them again in the next life, God Willing.
Thanks Brian. It's good to know I'm not alone! The good thing about all this is that God gave me such a kick in the backside that he brought me back to my senses. Also, now I have prayed and continue to pray so much for my wife and children and so many more souls that would never have been said otherwise. I will be keeping you BrianK and family in my prayers going forward. Praise God. "My God, I will trust in Thee, even though Thou slayest me." (I think this comes from the Book of Job)
God Bless all on the Forum and especial prayers for all in the USA God Bless America and God Bless in the World Cup.
