WEEK OF PRAYER #32:
LOOKING AHEAD WITH HOPE WE CONTINUE OUR SPIRITUAL INVENTORY, but now we focus more on the future. Some questions to consider as you sift through the graces:
How have I grown in gratitude for the gifts God has given me?
I really have become very conscious and clear about all the Love that GOD has shared with me throughout my entire life. God has formed the earth and made it for me to live His Will. I AM really so much beyond grateful. I more careful to stay in th Trinity, and ask for guidance in all my actions careful to love everyone i meet, and ever task before me. I know this is all here for me to more fully express and LIVE the LOVE of God. Like again, in this morning Bible Reading Isaiah 45:1 from Mass . . . I AM the anointed called by name. I know I have been chosen and called out by name. I know He has called me and gifted me again and again. I will BUILD HIS CITY Isaiah 45:13, I committed to afte my Death at age sixteen.
I really seem to have always known something about this all my life. Not just that I was different or gifted somehow, where I was exempt from all sorts of things, or privileged. I live by another rule book listening to Saints and Guardian angels instead of ego and flesh, so Jesus provides everything for me. I was really just like “everyone else God called” in the Bible to come out and do more: like I need to FAST now, as I got Larry’s Food card and my fridge is empty now. I accepted that calling from Jesus and stepped into it all with deep passion and Trust! Just like I know I can FAST for 40 days. Similarly HE told me to do the PrayerLine daily again, and it’s really been completely wonderful!
How has my understanding of call or vocation evolved over the weeks?
I really have grown to Accept and Trust this experience as i come to understand more and more everyday. I'm not questioning every step, or arguing all the time along the way, but really just accept and move on. Once again, I know I'm getting ready for something else. Something much stronger and far reaching, that I wont expect or understand at first, as I KNOW Jesus Loves Surprises. And to surprise us and bring us into a deeper place of Joy and Love is the primary focus here all the time for me now! God’s loving kindness never ends, unchanging faithfulness unwavering strength and goodness shared with me always!
Have I made a significant decision during the retreat, or do I need God's help in making such a decision in the future?
I'm always making significant decisions . . . lol . . . YES, all choices are significant; ALWAYS LISTEN TO GODS LAW = Word. . . . . This retreat has helped me realize how to LISTEN to every tiny detail of Your Love and Direction through Your Word . . .
Stopping to clean up or make more coffee or have a beer with peanuts, are all important. I've learned that every Word of God is significant. . . HIS WORD IS LAW, and we can only approach Him with the Eucharist in forgiveness to be in His Holy Love when we always listen. It's not my place to judge and choose, which words I listen to, and which words I miss. I've noticed that the Guardian Angels, Ancestors and Guides that I hear ALWAYS sing a chorus of Praises to Jesus!!! Yes, that the Word and Name of Jesus is constant sung in prayers, always with the Voice and Words that I hear in direction. Isaiah 45 know God! That feels like something else that I specifically asked for. Like hearing Gods' Perspective all the time, or recognizing His Love and Joy in All things around me, these all feel very familiar. Like these were things that I specifically demanded before I awoke in the Hospital.
How would I like to structure my prayer life in the future?
I've been telling Jesus I wanted to just DO IT, or to be completely accepting His word more actively. I know They (The Trinity) like to be challenged, or the idea of wrestling in sought. I seem to have been wrestling forever. It seems like debating things seems to be something else necessary in this relationship . . . Not Like a lovers quarrels, but just the point of deciding together, and sharing the. Different passions and perspectives . . . Brothers, in a wedding commitment of covenant . . . I realize it's really about making this personal experience more two sided and more dynamic. I have been saying that I'm done with arguing and second guessing. I want to JUST DO, and get things done as He says so i can move on with whatever is next. I mean, it's really annoying sometimes that whenever I DO SOMETHING, most anything, it's always including layers and layers of elements. I mean, it seems random that I pick things up, and move things all over, all the time. It drives me crazy that I never feel like I'm finished with anything . . . But then I'm always surprised when the last piece falls into place and I SEE the magnificent results of the random movements and changes over the months. WOW, like building my Duck Pond and moving plants outside. I know they all want to come inside with me, and I just need to figure how to water them ALL DAILY, so it becomes another constant habit, like the PrayerLine and All the Todd and Kevin Taught me with the Exodus 90. (Yes Exodus started with LENT, so 001-028 is Lent and Exodus while SEEL started Harriet at 01, and Dr.Alex at 101) . . .
I guess this has happened with the Ducks. I've started to build a duck house and I know it's not done yet. But what's happened so remarkable is that some random pieces I've picked-up around the neighborhood have come together almost magically. I'm very impressed and inspired to see the duck space taking shape. And it drained just right. . . As the duck waste will be great fertilizer for countess fruits and vegetables. . . Wow!
What commitments do I want to renew or make to my family, friends, church, or community?
I've been engaging and doing more and more in my church and community. This picture above starts with the transit loop that i see around my house whenever i FLASH, yes there under the white “LIBRARY” label and then the Church Roof Tile Task that I started is the next pic. I know I have so much more to do and see little elements here and there that I never have considered before. I know it’s really about focus and clarity. I’m always moving ahead and always seem to be in the right place at the right time. Like Sharing with Clayton today, where he read that blog page under the loop above. WOW! What a smart kid, ready to read and share with me. So I said it was all about Jesus. And he’s Like “Jesus? Do you mean Church.”

And no, Jesus is everywhere and everything. There is only ONE LIFE here and it’s all Love. Course he laughed and looked at me, like I was from another Planet. So then I popped open that equation up there and he’s seen this e=mc2 before and knows that. So yes, we are all energy and matter, and this squiggle line here is an integral in calculus. Yes he knows calculus, so then that math equation is a line, then the integral makes it an area, and then the next makes it into a volume, and then the next puts it into motion through space and time so now you have everything. Yes, everything, that’s Love, That’s God, all energy and matter come from Love and God where we can each grow the fruit of the spirit, like Dr Alex explains there ===>
Wow, was that neat to share with Clayton, where he could actually follow me and understand. And so I said how it’s about stepping into this, and recognizing our place. Our Place to Listen and Follow God. Yes to simply do His Will. . . ALWAYS
Crazy I’ve biked out to see Dean Frazer over and over again. No one there the last time. Got a flat tire there once and walked home. I’ve spoken to Brain about doing more and he gave me a few things to do. Today I cleaned and sorted the roof tiles as noted above with the picture. I think we have a set ready to go already. It’s funny, I took pictures to show what I did, and can’t seem to play with pictures yet to get them in here with my writing. Yes, I know this writing now is a priority, and I’ll add pic’s later. Jesus told me to stop for a beer and burger again so I’m here at Three Daughters reading and writing again.
Wow I love this place:
How can I better care for myself?
Yes burger today as my last meal before starting my fast. I ate most everything in my fridge. Yes I had the last eggs for breakfast before the PrayerLine today. I need to take apart my fridge and dishwasher to clean them all out. I haven’t had a working ice maker in months.
Yes the “fast” is about taking better care of myself. I know I can do so much better. I eat really careful and always have the best meals. The beer and kombucha I have all the time are always really good too. But NO FOOD for a month brings so much clarity and focus. . . And more time, as making food can take hours too!
How has my sensitivity to the poor and marginalized deepened over the retreat?
Well, I wouldn't say anything is deeper, though my homeless tenant is back in-line with his regular rent payments. He's not been regular since before Christmas, so I hope he's more stable now. I regularly send him business development opportunities and ask for him to do things related to entrepreneurship. He's still not cleared his own room and continues to add junk in there, even as I have removed things, saying that all that remained could be sold. I do think he has made his bed finally, but really not much more!
My teaching also regularly encourages business development, I'm always trying to improve things for everyone, though it seems like I’m all alone in my efforts, I post and encourage but have no idea if anyone listens and does anything with what I share.
In what concrete ways can I serve those in need?
THIS NEXT section is what Clayton read! I posted to his Dad too. HERE’s my Open Door deal. I told Larry the Laundry Machines were open for him. I’m out of detergent, so if he does a load for me, he can wash all of his too . . . Buys the Soap and Does it all.
I wonder how my efforts in teaching and urban agriculture might inspire and direct people to support more of “those in need I guess . . .yes!!!😆💞👍🥰❤️😝🥳😮🤪🤩🥸🏍️🤣
Yes, I know this is where you want me because you want to write about the ten days. I love you so very much. I am so grateful to be here with you now and I know now again everything will completely shift in 10 days. Nothing I could do or really understand. I guess I see so much coming together again.
Wow this hit me when Lisette visited.
10 days left!
Snapped the pic!?!?
10 days to what?
I heard when we had a 1000 left,
then when we saved the first 100,
course when Joni died and I learned “we made it!!!!”
Wow, that came out with Dick Alexander. He’s on a men’s group just like this “STARS” group. I must share when something powerful happens.
This morning, Larry son read this page in my blog about the next 10 days here.
I open the door between us and I told him he was welcome anytime I was here.
Rule1-love god and neighbor in complete transparency, never hide or deceive here in my space or you are not welcome here.
Rule2-must tell me when he leaves or are done with whatever we start…
Rule3-we could do whatever he wants! Games, Lego’s, paint, everything comes with a chore or price. Like you want to SMASH this Angel Statue, on the Floor, ok here you go smash it, but it costs your right leg!
Rule4- everything has a price: projects 4 credit; Oh yes extra pic’s of other similar projects helping at the church.
How have I grown in faith, hope, and love, and where does such life giving growth lead me now? Be specific.
Wow, this experience of opening more of my space to the homeless child that visits me monthly was such an awesome blessing. I told him I talked to my son this morning too. Course he didn’t believe me, so I said he could look and see for himself. . . My Son Christopher, just got Married 10/10/25 as CLAIR, as he decided to be She instead?!?!?!