Actress Ann Jillian calls the morning of March 25, 1985 “a day  of reckoning." She was working out at Nautilus (health club) in the San Fernando Valley. She was lying on her stomach to do some back leg lifts. As she pressed her body down against the bench, she froze in sudden  horror. She discovered an irregularity in her right breast. She gasped in disbelief. Her heart pounded like a  drum as shed rove home. At 35 she saw her life plunging into a tailspin — a lifelong success story beginning at age 10 and continuing with one success after another — and now this promising career could be crumbling .Engraved on the outside of her church, above the entrance, was a prayer she had never seen before, but which now she noticed .As she read the words of St. Francis De Sales, a deep calm came over her soul. ”The same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and ever day. Either he will shield you from suffering, or he will give you unfailing strength to bear it .Be at peace then and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations.”

It seems that frequently we find God more deeply present when our backs are to the wall. I found A God of love and compassion in depression Be still and know that I am God. A perennial question that constantly has to be answered, because any answer is in essence only a partial answer to: ”who is the God you believe in?”. In the jail the other day I was talking to three guys, and one had this dream which was a beautiful summary of his life- he was trying to tell his son not to be hitting these balls so as to get a bull’s eye What kind of God did your parents and teachers share with you? ,because underneath was gators and so it was dangerous, but h said no body listened .The son was his own little boy in him who still is reacting to the very rigid discipline he got about God and life in general.

The oil disaster in the gulf will and can be used by God to convey a very important message to us Americans –Immigration Palm Beach Post for Tuesday MAY 25 HAD THIS TO SAY: ”Supporters of changes in immigration law say people who believe all undocumented workers should be expelled  from the country don’t comprehend how  that would affect the availability and security of the food chain. Frank Carlton-director for Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association Proverbs-our first reading; wisdom speaks, and her voice is decidedly womanly Wisdom is featured in the scriptures as mother nurturer-wisdom is the first of God’s works — hence the importance of praying to the Spirit for wisdom.Paul in Romans 5.”Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ . . the love of God has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us ”.John 16:”when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth.” Dr. Fr. Walter Burghard t”Today is not God’s feats; it is ours. However humbly you think of yourself, however much you may regret what you do not have, never forget the supreme gift that is yours,more precious and more lasting than diamonds...you are a living tabernacle: God is alive in you-Father/Mother, God’s unique Son and their Holy Spirit.”