Valentine's Day!

“A love that grows within, so beauty grows and therefore love is the beauty of the soul.” St Augustine

I have learnt to love by loving. Somedays, I am tired, and I only can give so much. The one thing though, I strive to do is to learn how to love by loving and over these past few years, I have encountered a love that I never knew possible. A higher love, that I have been looking for, a love that consists of sharing what one and who one is with those whom one loves. When it comes to love, I feel as though I am a fool who dances over the edge.

Women of Faith and Hope, may God bless you all this valentine’s day, may he keep you in his care and may his love be with you everyday and everywhere you go.

Let me leave us with a prayer: O my God, I love you with my whole heart and above all things, because you are infinitely good and perfect; and I love my neighbor as myself for love of you. Grant that I may love you more and more in this life, and in the next for all eternity. Amen.

From the 1st of march to the 31st of March we will journey with St Patrick. May God Bless Always, women of Faith and Hope.🌷💟🙏

Examine Your Heart!

Jeremiah 17:9-10

'The heart is more devious than any other thing, perverse too. Who can pierce its secrets? I, the LORD, search to the heart, I probe the lions, to give each man what his conduct and his actions deserve. '

In grade twelve drama, we had to read a monologue and we had some choices and I chose to read Macbeth, the monologue of Lady Macbeth. I remember sitting down and holding my hands out, looking at my arms and saying, “spots, spots everywhere, the blood.” The blood is a stain that forever terrorizes lady Macbeth. The stain represents guilt.

Do you have a stain that constantly terrorizes you?

Do you have a stain that represents your guilt?

I see so many approaching the altar with despair, I can hear despair in their voices while they sing, I can feel them humbling themselves before the Lord, all of them wanting to return to the LORD, God our Father. Do you approach the altar with a humbled and contrite heart? I know as a mother and woman if I approach God with a contrite spirit, my humbled and contrite heart, God will not spurn. My humble heart will always follow in God’s ways, I choose kindness and forgiveness and overtime God will heal. My faith, your faith a “faith that comes to Christ is a faith that with it a broken and contrite heart.” Author Unknown. I say, don’t be someone you’re not, stay true to yourself, be honest, listen to your heart, maybe ask God to search your heart. Psalm 25:2-3 Examine me, LORD, and try me; O test my heart and my mind, for your love is before my eyes and I walk according to your truth.

The Lord weighs the heart. Women of Faith and Hope, let us examine our path, let us ponder it and return to the LORD. Let us stretch out our hearts and hands to God in heaven. Lamentations 3:40-41

We all have stains and we all must be carrying around some guilt. Whatever might be weighing on your humbled and contrite heart, don’t allow yourself to be tormented by regrets about the past. Like my daughter and Elsa from Frozen, sing “Let it go, let it go.” We learn the truth and our hearts always know the way back to God, our Father.

God Bless always

Written, photo and created by My Mother Rose.

Love of a Mother

This week has been very hard, not just on myself but on my beautiful babies. We have been adapting to a new year at school, changes in teachers, peers and not to mention all the beautiful rain we have been having. We are not giving up, we begin each day again, with our heads held high to look for all the positives. I wanted to share a lovely quote: Have a great weekend, God Bless Always.

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“Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud”

Luke 11:34

The lamp of your body is your eye. When your eye is sound, your whole body too is filled with light; but when it is diseased your body too will be all darkness.

My children and I love rainbows, the other day we watched Our Planet on Netflix and the episode we watched showed a massive cloud forming and the cloud became dark and it began to rain in the driest, hottest place in the world. After the rain, we watched as the flamingoes flew over water and we kept on watching until we saw a rainbow appearing in the water. It was mesmerizing, stunning. This week’s reading’s and gospel’s, we again look at light and darkness.  This time I couldn’t help but think of a Rainbow and how special they are, you see a rainbow can be full circles and that makes sense because I don’t know how many times I want to chase a rainbow so I can see what is at the end of one for example; a pot of gold. However, we only can see an arc formed by illuminated droplets above the ground and centered on a line from the sun. Did you know rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the section of sky directly opposite the sun? I didn’t, until my sister told me. You learn something new every day. Back to my point about light and darkness, we all have weaknesses, we have all done something wrong, we might not boast about our faults but we do have faults, yet so many of us work, volunteer our time, we outreach to the outer community, we give without wanting or needing anything back in return, and to me we are like a rainbow, even through our own darkness, our eyes reflect bright and vibrant colors in the eyes of others. “Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud” We place our own cloud away to be a rainbow for someone else. We can be a rainbow of possibilities, women of faith and hope. We are going to have tears, and we will have pain and it’s going to hurt for a while, but it’s what we do while we are waiting for it all to stop because you can’t have a rainbow without any rain. Maybe it’s time to learn to dance, to be a bright halo, a heavens light, which is a mother’s smile and that is the sweetest gift anyone could receive.  I love this quote; “There is a rainbow of hope at the end of every storm.” Be a rainbow, be the light.

Genesis 9:13 I set my bow (rainbow) in the clouds and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

God Bless Always Women of Faith and Hope

Written, photo and created by My Mother Rose

I say, God say's.

Well, school is back and my emotions and my children's emotions have been all over the place. I wanted to share something that I wrote recently. When I was researching I found something that is suited to where I am at and how I feel in this present moment or at one stage or another in my life. I don't know whether anyone else can resonate and if you do this is for you too.

'I say, I can't figure it out, I'm too tired, everything seems to be impossible, no body loves me. I can't seem to forgive myself for all the choices I have made and at times it's not worth it.  I say, I am not smart enough, I am not able and how can I possibly go on because at times I can't do it, I can't manage, I am afraid and I do feel alone, especially now my babies have left the nest even if it's only for six and half hours.

THE GOOD NEWS IN: God Says Different. 

God, will direct my steps, give me rest, all things are possible, he loves me, forgives me and in the end it's worth it. God gives me wisdom and I am able, God's grace is sufficient, he can do all things, God will supply all that I need and he has not given me fear only to have lots of faith and hope and God will never leave me.'

I am going to share some verses over the next couple of weeks and some words of encouragement, support that I feel are helping and guiding me on day to day journey.

God Bless Always Women of Faith and Hope.

Written, photo and created by My Mother Rose

LIGHTHOUSE!

‘Jesus is gathering disciples, a following of crowds, huge crowds and we are introduced to his apostles.’

I couldn’t quite figure out what to write this week, so I read the reading and gospel again and I could imagine Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee, now maybe this day was a little overcast and rain was to be expected. On days like these, our minds can drift, our thoughts and our emotions can seem a little dark. When we feel like this, we look for hope, light and did you know, there are so many different lights in the world, different bulbs, different ways for light to be used such as; a torch, a light that you leave on out the front of your house to guide you home, salt lamp, a night light for your children or yourself to see through the night, a candle and as I was thinking of all the different types of lights that guide us and give us hope through the darkness, It was like my own personal light bulb going off in my brain and

Lighthouse!

Of course, a lighthouse, a lighthouse is a tower or other structure containing a beacon light, that warns or guides ships at sea. A beacon is a strong light that can be seen from far away and is used to help guide, ships, areophane’s but also a beacon can be someone, or something, like a community that guides and gives hope to others.

I think it’s fair to say, we all are a lighthouse, not a lifeboat, we shouldn’t want to rescue, lighthouses don’t go running around looking for boats to save. Instead we should stand there shining to help others find their way to the shore. Isaiah 58: 10-11 “Your light will rise in the darkness, and your shadows become like noon. The LORD will always guide you giving you relief in desert places.” Our Lord is our lighthouse who beckons to all, as we sail the seas of life. So, no matter how dark the event of our life may appear, God is working on it. Having faith will bring us peace during our storms. Psalm 26:1 “The Lord is my light and my help; whom shall, I fear?

Women of Faith and Hope, may we be a lighthouse who stands strong, sending out hope in the darkness, may we be a friend who reaches out a hand bringing comfort, truth and light.

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.” Author unknown
God Bless Always,
Written and created by My Mother Rose

No Need to Worry.

Don’t worry about the smallest things, that are out of your control, know he is with you. No, need to be anxious or watchful for he is your God, he gives you strength, brings you help and will uphold you with his victorious right hand.

God Bless Always 💙🙏

Written and created by My Mother Rose