Appreciation & Gratitude: Thank you, God, for stability, peace, joy, good health, prosperity, your love, the gift of faith, a safe and comfortable home, beautiful miracle red couch, soft purple blankets and sheets, healthy food, enough clothes- not too many and not too few, thank you for so many things… but especially thank you for family, friendships, your love and your friendship, and especially for your unfathomable divine mercy. I do not deserve any of these things, yet you bless me so abundantly anyways. I love you, Lord. Please help me learn to give more to others, and to see Christ in each and every person I meet. I want to be your hands and feet. I want to do your will. Thank you that you can use me for some purpose which you have in mind. Thank you for all these things and for so much more! Music! Nature! Animals! Sunsets! Rainbows! Fall Leaves of all colors! Singing Birds! Oh, so much…. Dearest father, thank you! I don’t deserve all this!
Q1– God, there is no life apart from you. Don’t allow me to give up on doing your will. Help me to always say: Your will be done! Your way is above my way… always. Help me to know what you want me to do. Each day give me my marching orders, Dad. What should I do tonight and tomorrow? Ideas?
*** Write a song. Record a song. Write a poem. Record one of your poems that you wrote a long time ago- do it to music. Pray for your friends, especially C. You will see C. tomorrow at Sunsinger, so why don’t you pray a special prayer for her intentions? Pray the rosary for her intentions and make her a card letting her know. You will need her address so you can mail it to her after she goes back to AZ. That is what I would like you to do.
Q2- Jesus, I want to sing songs for you, but I haven’t been inspired or found the right time to sit down and start. Would you help me be more dedicated to set aside time and will you help me write the songs?
***All you really need to do is get into a good habit. Time management is key. Cut back on unnecessary commitments I know that the hard part is choosing what needs to go. I know you want to do the CCD classes, Salesian Cooperative, tennis, voice lessons, adoration, mass, keep up/clean the house, cook meals, grocery shopping, help your parents, drum gigs, exercise: tennis/walk/jog, hour long board meetings, pray chaplet/rosary and pray for other people’s intentions… oh yeah and work 6-7 hours every day. It is a lot. Don’t be so hard on yourself. We can do this. If you spent 30 minutes a day writing, you would have a lot of material. This will take commitment, getting up earlier, not wasting time on FB and also take time to not do anything at all except rest in our love. That will give you the energy you need. So, if you get up at 5:30 you can fit much more into your day and you could write 30 minutes before work! You could multi task, and get a walk in while at the same time record on your phone some lyrics! That would be a blast! I’d help you! Try getting up at 5 or 5:30 and go on a walk with me? {I’d love that, Jesus! Help me get up and I’d do it happily!}
Q3– Love, would you help me get to sleep earlier? I need someone to remind me to get to sleep by 10pm as a goal. I have problems slowing down because I have so much I would like to do and never have enough time in the day. Then, I oversleep and have a hurried morning and find that I haven’t gone on a walk or exercised in weeks. That is unacceptable. I like Jesus’ idea of getting up early for a walk/writing session around 5 or 5:30. I just need some help to get into the habit. I know it can be done, I’ve done it before… it is just that I have been unable to do it this time round.
*** Set your phone to go off at 9:00 to get ready for sleep. That means: Shower, phone off, next day planned, pick up house and get into bed lights out by 9:45. You will get into a great habit. On the weekends, try to get it all done and asleep by midnight. (so be home weekends by 11pm if possible.) Sound good?
Q4- Mom, I would like to start praying the Rosary on a more regular basis. I am so grateful that you help me pray. Please help me take the time for this important new habit I would like to make it a priority. I don’t have the time, but maybe we could go for a walk in the evenings and pray the rosary then? It cools off around 8 and gets dark by 9 right now. Or if I can pray along with the recording while I am doing some other mindless chores around the house… multi task sounds good to me, but would that upset you? Do you mind it when people multi task in this way?
*** Multi-tasking is necessary sometimes in today’s society. I know you are very short on time. Anytime you pray is a good and blessed thing that you do. The fact that you multi task doesn’t take away from it at all. Quite the opposite. It shows that you are doing everything you can to include prayer in your life. It would be powerful for you to listen to the rosary song while you’re working. Don’t worry about not being perfect, I will take your prayers and make them beautiful for God, present them with your love and all that you suffer, I will add to them making them even more powerful. I will intercede for you and your intentions. The rosary is very powerful. You will see things start to move in your life for the better. Thank you for asking, Mar. I will help you and your efforts while multi-tasking are potent… don’t let anyone tell you differently. They don’t know your heart like I do. We love you.
Actions Requested:
Pray a rosary for C. intentions and send her a card when she gets back to AZ.
Get into a good habit of waking 5 or 5:30-
Go for walk in morning and write songs while walking before starting work.
Set alarm at 9pm to go to bed by 10.
Multi-task rosary prayer is powerful as well.
Mother Mary will help me pray and will intercede for me to God.
Closing Comments & Petitions: Thank you for these ideas. Please help me to implement them. Help me find time for everything. Help me be more dedicated and have better time management. Help me rest and relax. Show me what needs to be done and help me organize my life. Help me get rid of the things that don’t belong in my time allotments… like FaceBook. Show me what to do and help me follow your lead. It is already almost 9pm so that means according to my new schedule, I need to get ready for bed! Asleep by 10, help me, Lord. Please help me get up at 5 and go for a walk/write a song. Please bless my efforts. Amen! Xo ~Mar