I've been realizing how important it is to think about home when you're away from home, but also to pray for home when you're away from home. It's important to try to remember anyone who cares for you or gives you a kind word. But to me it's even more important to ask God for watchcare over them. I say that cause I know it's something I should do and fail to do a lot. It's a little like preparing the way for yourself when you go back from where you came. I feel bad when I get home and know there are people there in need that I have failed to think about or say a prayer for. It takes so little time and can have such a profound effect on their lives and ours. Pray for where you're from, where you're going, and where you might be in the future and that the heart of Jesus will meet you there when you arrive (cause you never know where you'll be next).
Long, long ago, so I’ve been told Two angels met on streets paved with gold.
“By the stars on your crown,” said one to the other, “I see that on earth you too were a mother. And by the blue tinted halo that you now wear, You too have known sorrow and deepest despair."
“Oh yes,” came the answer, “I once had a son, A sweet little lad full of laughter and fun. But tell of your child.” “Oh I knew I was blest From the moment I first held him close to my breast. And my heart almost burst from the joy of that day.”
“Ah yes,” said the other, “I felt the same way.” The former continued, “The first steps he took, So eager and breathless, the sweet startled look Which came over his face -- he trusted me so.”
“Ah yes,” said the other, “I felt the same pride. How often I shielded and spared him from pain, And when he for others was cruelly slain, When they crucified him and spat in his face How gladly would I have hung in his place.”
A moment of silence “Oh then you are she -- The mother of Christ,” then she fell on one knee. But the blessed one raised her up, drawing her near, And kissed from the face of the woman a tear. "That I may share your grief and your woe, Tell me the name of the son you loved so.”
She lifted her eyes and looked straight at the other. “He was Judas Iscariot-- I am his mother.”
-Capers are pickled flower buds from the Mediterranean.
-There are more than 4,500 patron saints in the Roman Catholic Church. St. Drogo is the patron saintofcoffee and coffeehouses and St. Gertrude thepatron saint of the fear of mice.
-The word "posh" comes from the days when Brits sailed from England to India. If their cabins were port side on the way out and starboard on the way home, they were posh.
-80% of what people wear is made up of only 20% of their entire wardrobe (I am ashamed to think that!)
-The phrase "minding your p's and q's" originated in the English pub, where the bartender kept an eye on the pints and quarts. Thus, the minding, not the watching...
