Happy birthday Padraig, may Gods blessings remain upon you, may His directions be the foundations of your feet, may His Love be the service of your arms, may His love be the concerns of your heart and may His Mercy be an exaltation of your soul! With this wish and blessing to you Padraig, I also wish to acknowledge all members of your MoG forum! and wish them a happy birthday for their special birth day! I want to also wish a happy conception day to everyone! God breathed a singular Love into all He created in His image! At the moment of conception, in our mothers womb, God brought together torrents of natural material ordained by Him and He infused His supernatural splendour to actualize the object of His Love.....which was You! He delights in you, you are the apple of His eye! In Gods magnificence and unending creational beatitude, His child will witness after the pilgrimage here on earth, Our Heavenly Father's infinite and unbounded love! We will be gasping from one moment to the next, at the beauty and wonder of His Great Glory and this will continue throughout all eternity. How blessed are we? May God continue to Bless you and all of us here at the MoG forum. Amen.
Thank you for the greetings. I was coming out of Mass this morning when my Angle Guardian , right out of the blue wished me a Happy Birthday and this surprised me as I had forgotten. But the angel remembered. They don't miss much, do they? I had the great consolation after Mass of sitting and watching an older man with a beard , a member of the Legion of Mary, saying the Rosary alone. He knelt bolt upright head bowed, eyes closed like an angel. Such a joy to watch him.
Happy Birthday! May your cake be big, may your ice cream never melt and the fire from the candles small! May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine upon your face and the rain softly upon your fields! And may the Good Lord Smile upon you and His Mercy surround you so at the end of your days may He carry you home!
Thanks once again, so kind. I found myself at Mass this morning getting caught up with God in prayer, so that I was standing when I was kneeling and kneeling when I should have been standing. This is something I have not felt really for over 30 years. So for instance when we said, 'Our Father' , I got lost in the words and stood gazing upwards for about five minutes unable to move. When I was young this embarrassed me, but I don't really mind so much now. It is like getting lost in a sea of fire and love. It is lovely to go back to this once again. God reminds me of the way I treat my dog. I tend to forget about the poor thing when out walking, but sometimes he nuzzles me on the hand to remind me, then I kneel down and give him a big hug to make up for forgetting. St Therese of Liseaux compares God to a child with a doll. The child forgets the toy and discards it in a dark corner, then suddenly recalls it is there and returns lifts it up and hugs it close. But whether or not it is hugged or not that soul must know it is always, always loved. It is so strange though after 30 or 40 years to find the Good Lord returning and picking me up of the ground with these big gigantic hugs once again. So very many years...it is so true, the Spiritual Life is a circle in which we return to childhood again but see it and experience as we should always have done for the very first time. A little ship returning to Safe Harbour after the storms of life as St Columba put it. A coming home. To grow old in Christ is to become a child again. Psalms 126:5-6 Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them.
