I just talked to the engineer and he said he'll put in a rush order to get the electric out there since my house is just sitting and waiting!
Aha! Those messages John were to get her working on PF's house!!! You have powerful friends in high places PF and John.
I have no doubt in her helpfulness her very name spells There See (done) My own prayer of thanksgiving to St Therese ...If there was ever a person that fulfilled Christs own words "unless you become like little children" it is you oh little flower who stole Christ's heart teach me to become like you, Thankyou for your intercessions and ever being. Amen I think this beautiful quote by St Therese fits right here... For St. Therese every day was a day of profound thanksgiving. One day she told her sister Celine: It is the spirit of gratitude which draws down upon us the overflow of God's grace, for no sooner have we thanked Him for one blessing than He hastens to send us ten additional favors in return. Then, when we show our gratitude for these new gifts, He multiplies His benedictions to such a degree that there seems to be a constant stream of divine grace ever coming our way. This has been my own personal experience; try it out for yourself and see. For all that Our Lord is constantly giving me, my gratitude is boundless, and I try to prove it to Him in a thousand different ways."
I also have to say seeing Pope Francis visiting the relics of St Therese just before his surgery gave me goose bumps to see him touch and pray before the very casket I carried gave me great hope...No accident that she just happened to be in rome
I am looking at getting a hand pump on our well. Its drilled but we have no access to water if grid goes. What kind of handpump did you get, if you dont mind me asking.
John, I love your devotion to St. Therese. I don't talk about it much, but she is very dear to me as well. I had a special song I used to sing to her as a child, with a great big statue of her in my room. She has accompanied me through so much in my life, and I almost became a Carmelite twice. Interestingly, though, she has never sent me an obvious sign like others say she does. No rose in my path or holy card falling into my lap...though I did ask from time to time. I was telling this to my husband today, and suddenly I remembered, "You know what? I was all set to choose Therese as my Confirmation saint name, but at the last moment I switched it to Mary. No wonder St. Therese doesn't find me so special!"
It is a Bison deep water well hand pump. The guy who drilled our well installed it for us. We just ordered it and had it shipped to him.
Amen. I did not know you carried her casket. We venerated her casket and relics at Carmel of Port Tobacco, MD. I think it’s the first Carmel in the US. It is no accident. You are right.
Yes I wrote about it back in 2013...thread below https://motheofgod.com/threads/the-saint-whom-i-call-my-heavenly-sister.4432/
Something about your words is stirring my spirit, AED. St Therese is definitely signalling. She chose John because his heart is bound so closely to hers - and through John, we have come to know as well. In a way, her 'call' is reaching us too. I looked her up. St Therese is patron saint of foreign missions, among other causes. I'm going to pray and seek her word on whether she wants me to do something for her.
Just read your beautiful St. Therese story. You lovingly restored her statue, and she restored your faith. Such a great blessing John. The Little Flower takes good care of you.
Just tossing this in. We have city water but a sump pump in the basement. When the electric went out the well from the sump filled up to overflowing. We are in an area with a high water table. So we were busy filling up buckets with a can taped to a long stick. I took over while my husband drove up to Menards to get a generator to keep out sump pump working so our basement wouldn’t flood. When it was all over we found a bilge pump online that is manually operated and we can pump out the well pit into buckets or route it outside. It’s kinda cool like a cistern they used to have in basements of old farm houses. While you can’t drink the water you can use it for washing and cleaning. So we now have a back up plan if the grid goes out. And we have drinking water stored.
I understand more now, John. You are definitely one of her favorites! What a beautiful sister she is.
We have a similar arrangement. We have a 22 foot deep well with a line that runs to an electric pump in our basement. However, if we lose power for a significant length of time, we can, by switching to a separate line attached to a hand pump, have water available for washing. That water is approximately 98.5 percent pure, but in a fix can boil it and use it for drinking. Currently, we go monthly to a local spring with exceptional purity, and fill 30 1-gallon jugs for drinking. Praise God for the Salmon River aquifer.
