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We just walked to the mailbox and got the mail, an interesting article was in the diocesan paper.  This morning at breakfast our 4 year old asked when Lent begins… beginning to discern what to give up to help me draw closer to God.

Got a bit of a snow shower today.

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Great song a friend just shared with me…timshel is a Jewish word for freewill.

I thank God for all of the Holy Men & Women who have journeyed before us.  Such great role models!!!

Today’s Meditation:

“The shock of sorrow comes only to those who think this world is fixed and absolute, that there is nothing beyond. They think everything here below should be perfect. Hence, they ask questions: ‘Why should I suffer? What have I done to deserve this?’ Maybe you did nothing to deserve it. Certainly, Our Lord did nothing to deserve His Cross. But it came, and through it, He went to His glory.”—Venerable Fulton Sheen, p. 36

This is an excellent resource for any parent of a 9-14 year old.  It was used as part of the 4th grade curriculum at Church.  Mark Hart is captivating and held the students’ attention the whole time as he introduced them to the beloved word of God.  It’s a little dated having been made in 2013, but the best children’s Bible Study I’ve seen thus far.

So good to be fed spiritually!

A hill of snow, 3 brothers, and a sled =Memories.

Don’t forget who you are! ❤️

Our power returned at 12:15 pm!  The power company called to make sure all was good.  God bless the workers that helped make that happen!  We celebrated…we won’t take the simple conveniences in life for granted!  Also, this is making Andrew’s & my wheels slowly start turning about alternative power sources… probably won’t happen any time soon, but something to think upon.

I so appreciate Andrew’s understanding of electricity and all of its intricacies especially when the beautiful frost we’ve had starts taking down lines and he has the ability to hook up the new generator.  The crews were pulled tonight for safety, but hopefully in the morning they are able to fire things up.

I’ve lost count of days with frost with no wind…our power did flicker today, the lines must be getting heavy.

Andrew prepared tasty pho with vegetables & jasmine tea, and helped me with horsd’ouvers, fried rice, egg rolls, and wontons.