January 2024 Journey of Faith

This January journey with me in faith. May God bless always.

May God Bless Always, Faith, Hope and Love by My Mother Rose.

Written and created by Katie Robinson

 

Faith

 

Who is ready to embrace their faith? Let us ask ourselves is faith a choice? Is faith personal? What does faith mean to you? Let us begin our journey of faith and find out the answers to these questions.

May God Bless Always, Faith, Hope and Love by My Mother Rose

Written and created by Katie Robinson 

Advent Love 2023

 

Now the One sitting on the throne spoke; ‘Now I am making the whole of creation new’ he said.

Revelation 21:5

Well, we have stayed awake, prepared our hearts, and cried in the wilderness to make a straight path for Our Lord God.

As I sit before God, I understand that God can make all things new and can create in me a new heart, a heart that trusts and loves. As I reflect on my journey of faith this year, I realize there have been times when my soul has lost confidence, but I know deep down that my Shepherd always calls me to come back to him, just as I am. At times I suppose my attitude and belief can be conflicting but when I read the following quote.

“The world is a manger where God is continually being born into our lives” F. Buechner.

I understand that time and time again I can allow God to be born into my life. I suppose that is what Love is choosing to let someone in, choosing to let them be a part of your life even when it is hard to figure out who they are, or there are doubts and fears because people have made promises and broken them so choosing to trust and believe in someone or something can be scary especially when it comes to LOVE!  

But we have an amazing example who trusts and believes with no doubts or fears and that example is Mary our mother of God.

Are our hearts prepared enough to welcome Jesus this Christmas?

My heart is opened to rejoice and to forever sing the goodness of the Lord.

Faith, Hope and Love by My Mother Rose, I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I am looking forward to next year, we are going to have an awesome journey growing in Faith, Hope and Love.

May God Bless Always.

Written and created by Katie Robinson

 

Advent Joy 2023

 

A message of Joy for this Christmas season.

As we continue the Advent journey, and we approach with a different mindset hopefully we are starting to notice or experience some of the fruits of the Spirit and one of the fruits of the Spirit we are going to discuss is Joy.

Before I started to write and put my pen to paper, I couldn’t help but think about John the Baptist. This week we read about this character Isaiah prophesies about and I wondered how many came after him proclaiming the good news, the existence, and the relevance of God today? Firstly, we know the greatest of them all was Jesus Christ, then the twelve apostles, and the first Pope St. Peter. But who else cries out in the wilderness “make a straight way for the Lord?”

My research tells me there are a range of media, bookstores, piety stores, movies, YouTube channels, Podcasts, Facebook, and many more who share God with the world. I would even include what I do, even if Faith, Hope and Love by My Mother Rose is not acknowledged by the Catholic Church I still cry in the wilderness and share beautiful reflections and understanding of the one who stands among us.

The Spirit of the Lord has been given to each one of us and it’s ours if we choose to live a life knowing Christ expressing and sharing the good news with others. There are millions of people and thousands of books that tell us about God. That is our journey this Advent which means ‘coming’ we are preparing our hearts and getting ready for Jesus to enter our lives and when we he enters our souls can rejoice and we can say we exult for joy in the Lord. Meaning nothing can suppress what we have seen or what we have heard and how we spread the word of God for we are living witnesses to Christ in our own lives and lives of others.

There are many ways we can spread the gift of joy in this Advent, especially the Spirit of the Lord. So, like Mary let our souls proclaim the greatness of the Lord and our Spirits exult in God our savior and share a smile, a word of encouragement, donate toys, clothes, or food for our Lord has sent us out to bring good news to the poor, to bind up hearts that are broken, to proclaim liberty to captives, freedom to those in prison, and to proclaim a year of favor from the Lord Isaiah 61:1-2, 10-11.

I want to leave you with this thought like John the Baptist we need to allow Jesus to enter through our humility and in our acts of charity.

“Love itself the fulfillment of all works. There is the goal, that is why we run; we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.” St. Augustine.

May God Bless Always, Faith, Hope and Love by My Mother Rose.

Written and created by Katie Robinson.

 

Advent Peace 2023