WEEK OF PRAYER #27: THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST
I am always totally surprised and blessed how things come together and happen before me with all my studies. To my surprise, I’ve been given another week to review this, and I keep adding bible verses, phrases and experiences. I love the surprises reflected throughout my life and I’m always filled with wonder since everything is connected "experiencing Jesus's Life" to know Life is Eternal! It’s always moving more into a place of power and clarity. I see the Grace of God everywhere in my life and experiences. Like now sitting on my bed ready to read and write through this next SEEL lesson. I noticed bike grease on my leg from my ride this morning, and decide to take a shower.
Of course, then I feel TOTALLY blessed to be get up and shower. Now back again I’m ready to rest, write, and love Jesus all clean and pretty ready for bed! WOW!?!? Such simple things become so awesome to share with Jesus.
As I step back now to savor this moment, as "Dr.A" would say; “really savor it,” and I realize the real power and focus that has brought this new knowledge and experience to me of getting into the Bible and learning how to pray DAILY! . . . Including Fr. Mike’s Day 146 hearing about Solomon. I mean the Joy and complete surprise is beyond reason. I have NEVER done this before, to be very clear and focused on something JUST FOR ME. I mean, something for me and Jesus, as a priority over fmily and friends, over everything. Even further, I see the same story in the SEEL book speaking about my Welcome Witness to the Saint Raphael's people, where I know I belong to https://www.st-raphaels.com/ here with three Saints including https://stpaulstpete.com/ which I also visit next door to my "House-House," all here in https://www.stpete.org/ !
Yes, I biked over to the gadget-fix to get Madison the iPad keyboard and case I saw there🥰. I had to bike to UPS store anyway, to see about BSN and Rosary cards🥸, to send DVD tapes to scan🥳, and a $20 case was perfect to send Mad’s🥰. I Talked to Brent who planned to engrave her name into it. Funny, I immediately miss the pencil as I know Mad’s loved using mine during my visit . . . So I biked into town🥳. Left behind my empty Kombucha bottles, and brought my iPad Pro too, just to see about a case for it, replacing cracked screen and other options. So I ended up with a magnetic case/keys for it! AND also wiped-out on my bike going in. Yes, lost my balance when a fat-tire e-bike buzzed past me, and slammed onto the pavement; bloody toe, skinned knee and elbow 😫. . . got bandaids at the St Pete Clinic next door to GFY.
So now I just wrote an email to Fr. Jonathan as he witnessed my first welcome testimony about my mom's sermon. I know Fr. Curtis is there, who needed Fr.Kevin’s Lite we shared a bit. . . And I need to get serious about the gifts I have. Of course, no one takes me seriously, so I always have to explain every detail over and over again. Especially about the lies in our culture and businesses greed creating cancer... I mean, I ask Fr. Jon for reconciliation and then "hinted" that it was really about visiting Fr. Curtis. I mean, cancer is a complete lie, and Curtis is now only a statistic on a spreadsheet that counts the millions collected for drugs that kill people, but he’s too stubborn to listen to poor wacky weaver. Sadly even as you think people would know that the world is filled deception, greed and death crashing in around everyone, but the sheeple still continue to pretend that everything will work out fine in this world full of satan. Yes big picture, death is meaningless too, but when he gets to the other side, he’ll be pissed he didn’t listen to me and stay here because to start over and come back here is a long hard road from over there… I mean he starts over again while I just continue!
I just need to laugh now seeing this next image that I posted here above. Like suddenly knowing and seeing God’s plans opened and revealed to all. Like of course Mary knew everything. When we ask specifically for God to reveal his plans and perspective it does bring confidence and knowing. And the Faith and Trust from our Hearts is required for us to step forward from there.
Of course again, I know everything works out fine for me, however I also know the tasks and efforts before me are really significant making me work harder and more focused each moment . . . . Especially, now as I see these ideas to synch with nature highlighted in the Big Purple Hearts above in my SEEL lesson. Wow, Ben visited me today, and I admitted to him how much I love to play in my yard, I talk to the plants and birds and squirrels. The complete experience is filled with Joy in Love with God tending his Garden of Eden. YES “Synching with nature” is really central to my Beingness! As I've always known Saint Mary from there. . . Yes, I did the consecration to Mary again this year too! Thank You Dearest Loving Lord Jesus Christ, I Love You Dear Lord Jesus Christ!
DAY 1 Read John 20:1-10 (the disciples find the empty tomb). Imagine finding the empty tomb with the disciples. What has happened now as I pray and draw in with these lights of love. I’m so blessed as the sunrise just started, so it’s time for me to go and I finally found this love with you again!!! ((yes, I just highlighted this next Bible Verse marked up below, deep in the JOY of “thank you,” where every tool worked perfectly in IOS, and then I dropped my iPad on the floor and raced to get on my bike for sunrise)). It's really so remarkable for me to see and read so much love and beauty all around me constantly, so clear and poignant in front of me, consistently acting in Union with God’s Will 🙏🥰
This reading hit home again! Of course Mary was there. It feels like she’s been through death before. Seven demons in her when she met Jesus, so she likely had multiple experiences with death. So she knows He’s not gone, can’t be dead, something else?!? Now each day with SEEL, I see these readings MELDED BEAUTIFULLY into my immediate experience from multiple directions . . . Mass, Podcasts, emails, readings: all in Jesus with God's Love!
The power of this experience reviewing these verses and feeling the Disciples each LOOKING to see only Linen and “He’s away”, , , believing in His rising from the dead to bring us home to God.
Like now typing, I hear Fr Mike and the Catholic Catechism in a year podcast played on the SpiritFm Radio, where he’s on CCC: 473 “But at the same time, this truly human knowledge of God's Son expressed the divine life of his person. The human nature of God's Son, not by itself but by its union with the Word, knew and showed forth in itself everything that pertains to God." Such is first of all the case with the intimate and immediate knowledge that the Son of God made man has of his Father. The Son in his human knowledge also showed the divine penetration he had into the secret thoughts of human hearts. CCC: 474 By its union to the divine wisdom in the person of the Word incarnate, Christ enjoyed in his human knowledge the fullness of understanding of the eternal plans he had come to reveal. What he admitted to not knowing in this area, he elsewhere declared himself not sent to reveal he escaped death, beat satan and linked us home to God.
Like here at right are the three courses I have scheduled for the Fall 2026 term, two at SPC and one at USF. All online courses, all that I've done before and can easily step into again. So I created these little cards to advertise and promote my courses . . . so I can increase the students in each and maybe break each into two courses . . . Doubling my course load again.
DAY 2 & 3 IMAGINE JESUS RESURRECTION AND RETURN TO MOTHER MARY! Wow, this really carries so much power for me this moment. And suddenly, I just jump to my iPad Pro, where I can use this white little pencil on the big screen, that I can write and read over so easily. Each word I write becomes more clear and more focused as my script turns to text. The emotion and power of the slow steady pencil marking the iPad is so much more intimate! I accept this opportunity to step into a deeper and deeper place of trust, love and security exemplified here before my eyes. Mary knew this with Jesus. That parent/child bonded relationship overpowers all else. There is no division, no insecurity, no falsehood in this Love. Everything is very clear and focused powerful feeling in Joy of Gratitude.
Ah yes, this reminds me of Father’s Day, that we just had yesterday (5:51 am 6/22/26 now as I write). Where I know I was able to share similarly loving with my own children, seeing that beauty and love of peace and joy that only comes from that deep spiritual connection between parent and child. Like this Day 2-3 reading of Jesus and Mary: knowing a love beyond all else . . . . As wonderful as it was, I need to acknowledged how many things just fell into place this weekend. Biking to the farmers market after church yesterday, I got the beep on my watch to call Claire at our 9am schedule. I immediately pulled of Beach Drive and just parked my bike right next to where we met at Ceviche, to sit on a big bench and talk. 
What was remarkable was accepting that I had a new bike that was more fantasy than I ever imagined. Larry told me that it sat in the garage for a few years before, I finally pulled it out to reconfigure it for me to ride. Claire looked it up online within minutes, just to tell me that it was an expensive racing bike. I laughed at the gift that Jesus had given me, knowing that once again, it was beyond my fantasy, and I was completely surprised. I thanked Larry a dozen times for reminding me about it sitting in the garage. Of course, I couldn’t get into the garage until after my semester of classes was done. Now, I realize it’s really a reward from Jesus for getting all my important classes finished this last term.
I mean, I've not used it for a week yet, and already while riding I remembered being in High School again riding no-hands as usual, and I tried to move the gear-shifters off the handle bars. I had made a foot-break already, so now I needed to put the shifters on the seat or somewhere else. Yes, I explained this to Claire while sitting on Beach Drive, how I had some memory of wanting the shifters moved somewhere else. And now biking I somehow felt like I had seen this before. ! . ? . ! . ? As weird as it was, I was soon surrounded with all these fancy expensive carbon racing bikes, as this group of riders stopped to get their morning coffee.
Similarly, while on the phone with Emily, I get an email from USAA with the insurance dividend refund insuring my summer vacation continued. Wow, a summer break! Fixed my fence, cleaned my garage, lol no not yet, just started! I guess yesterday, I started by cleaning my stoop out my back door. It’s been piled high with all my indoor plants that need new pots and resetting. Yes, a big basin of dirt, pots, plants piled up high, where I had to climb over things or be careful whenever I walked out my backdoor. Just like when my classes finally ended with my birthday last month. As soon as I got home from visiting Emily I had to clean my kitchen piled up with a mess too.
I was starting to feel like I was living in a dorm room again. Funny, I told Claire about having the summer off, and I could finally get a dog. SHe agreed, but Nope, Priorities: DAY 4: Read John 20:11-18, and we've come back to Mary. . . . Maria my mother, and Claire my son who is changing.
Course having Mary around all the time always feels like a blessing to me. My Mom Maria lol, and my "Fat Ram" Maryanne, again feels so very familiar to me in synch with Jesus again here now. And here again what comes really strong for me in Lectio Divina is the Words of Jesus comforting Mary by saying how He's not yet Ascended and wants her to tell his disciples that He's returning to His Father, Their Father, His God and Their God!
I feel like this is really central to his teachings too. How Jesus was Brethren with His disciples and wanted to be sure they are all ready for this blessing coming now before them. Or ready for the many Blessings that Jesus had planned for them as He is Resurrected, or really as planned for all of us throughout time. Bringing mankind to the fullness of this Brotherhood and Love that Jesus demonstrated for everyone . . . Bringing greater intimacy with GOD!
DAY 5 Read Matthew 28:1-10 (Jesus appears to the women at the tomb). Hear again from the angels and Jesus what you've heard often in the retreat: "Do not be afraid." Love casts out all fear. Joy remains.
Yes, fearless with "great joy." It's really kinda ODD how many times I've noticed people seeking JOY, but unable to release FEAR. I mean, these emotions are essentially opposite and it's not physically possible to have opposite feelings at the same time. Of Course, I've had this debate several times. It's not possible to BE positive and negative at the same time, like you are either black or white, male or female. And still people insist they are both, or want both . . .Yes, I'm sure they all will figure it out. That's really what life is all about, to experience and understand. And return to the love and joy that we are designed and created to be . . . . Bringing greater intimacy with GOD! Bringing greater intimacy with GOD! And really knowing the complete cycle.
with each little letter you place now you can bring about so much more than ever before. Another level of love where a deeper stronger clearer experience of shared faith is truly expressed here for all to find. A deeper experience with God walking in faith doing the time in gratitude, thanksgiving praise and worship.
cycle. Yea I know it's about this deeper love experience writing about my next day.
DAY 6 Repetition. Again really feels right as I post this bible reading from Mass as well. Of course it's always on the same topics and I'm always finding reinforced synch in everything I learn and study now. I've said for years it's weird or perplexing, but it's really become so constant and present that I need to start honoring it.
Not just catching these phrases, to highlight and post, but to really start to accept and resonate with this state of BLISS and JOY that I am. I have noticed that I'm always answering the morning "how are you?" that everyone is programmed by the Matrix to say, with "I'M WONDERFUL" instead of the typical "FINE." Now really accepting my state of Bliss requires that I get more specific and detailed.
I've not started to "proclaim on the housetops" as I've highlighted here above. But I have noticed new confidence and security to share these deeper truths and passionate insights that I do have. I mean, especially sharing with the church ladies group. I've noticed they almost ask for it, or expect me to share something. I've really been so lucky to be caught into the mix and dynamics of so many serious culture changes and evolutions during all my life. Of course, I also noticed people rarely believe or even understand specific events that I explain or retell. And I really see now that my missing details is the next challenge before me.WOW!!! I need to talk about GOD! Which really means I need to have my camera on with the mic working correctly. EEEKK!!!
DAY 7 Read 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 ("the God of all consolation"). Savor the graces of the week. Wow, graces of this week are all about the Fruit of the Spirit: Galatians 5:22-23 the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Yes, this is the last day for this week of SEEL. Now again it brings me back to these Fruit. PRAISE BE TO GOD!
Where the compassion and comfort from God comes through to us so clear and strong. Ok, I confess yesterday I had to race out to UPS and visit a few places downtown. I almost brought all the glass bottles to refill!
Yes, YUM! But thank God I didn't, as it's just barely been one week on my new bike, so carrying stuff might not be smart yet. And coming down 9th Ave in the bike lane, one of those big fat-tire ebikes went right past me and knocked me off balance enough that I slammed into the ground.
OUCH!
So then I biked to Sarah's https://www.stpeteferments.com/ and no one was there, so I walked into the St Pete Clinic there across from GFY. They were closed but someone found bandaids for me, as I had blood dripping in a few places.
Uhg, so I biked to Gadet-Fix and found a new iPad Keyboard for Madison and another for My iPad Pro. Yes, I spoke to Brent yesterday to confirm it would work for Madison. Yes, I was in tears talking with him. And my eyes are tearing up now considering how awesome it is to have real blood family to share with. I had wished him Happy Father's Day a few days before, but we hadn't talked. AND HE CALLED ME! Wow, I was so grateful and as I spoke about HOW GRATEFUL I was to have a real BLOOD family connection. I was crying like a baby, as I am again now.
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So wow, I've got to go see Fer-Fer-Feff too. Yes we spoke too, and now after their wedding 10/10/25 that he's "Claire Allen Weaver-Porras" now and would really prefer if I said . . ."It would mean the world to me if you said “she” and “daughter” but I know I have a silly dad… 😅" . . . yes whether it was my doing, of colleen or just this crazy matrix culture I still SAVOR these graces to share now: Savor the graces of the week in 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 with "the God of all consolation."
