Don’t turn down a present from God.  It’ll involve a bit of suffering, but the end results are magnificent.  Mary, a quiet girl in Galilee, accepted, and is now Queen of Heaven and Earth, and did you ever see her basilica in Washington, D.C.?  It’s called the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

The interior has the front wall devoted to a mosaic of her son, Jesus, from the breast up.  The whole church is a work of art.

Heaven is a gift, too, and I can’t imagine what a joy it will be.  The saying is, “Keep trucking,” but I say, “Keep praying.”

What we have here in Western Civilization is incredible.  I just got back from visiting a dermatologist who came here during WWII from Switzerland where her parents had gone to flee persecution, and it was amazing what this country had done for her education.  She knew her medicine like the back of her hand and spoke English like a native.

People who complain about our Republicans complain about the backbone of our political system, and I see no reason to upset the apple cart.  What a chaos over a leaked Supreme Court document.

The good Lord still has this nation at heart, and I pray there are enough people to keep it that way.  No Sodom and Gomorrah here.

Mother’s Day is appropriately celebrated by the whole family, and I manage to sneak in my own mother with a few prayers. She is no longer alive, but what she endured from me makes her a saint.
There was no need for Purgatory for her; what she didn’t suffer from me she endured through seven years of Alzheimer’s. I believe that a just and merciful God has ways to make it all up to her in a new world. There is the light, like the sun, and mountain meadows in that world, with the smell of hay and wild flowers. And everyone is a friend in the presence of God.

Is it all the same to you, baby kittens drowned in a bucket and an innocent child stabbed by a scalpel through the heart?  He didn’t even hear the nurse’s “No.”  But that’s what our civilization has come to.  Who are these women loudly protesting before the Supreme Court?  Thank God no daughter of mine.

He’s suffering from stomach cancer, requiring surgery, and he has a case of Parkinson’s disease.  Vladimir Putin is now in need of the mercy of God and could benefit from the prayers of good Russians, even the former ones in Ukraine, but  he has given them little motivation.  Are we, as Christians, going to fill the breach?

Each of us may someday be in a similar situation, and though Christ asked us to pray for our enemies, does that include ones who threaten nuclear annihilation?  I’m sure if Vladimir asked God for mercy, he’d get it, but does he even believe?  There is already a judgment here.