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Tori, for feeling scared... you'll do just fine -
Saint Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host -
by the Divine Power of God -
cast into hell, satan and all the evil spirits,
who roam throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls.Amen.
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Pat - that's an excellent idea for March 15th! I'll circle the date, but can you please remind us as the date gets closer?
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ToriGirl--thinking of you as you start rads. You will do it sister!! I know it ain't easy--but just think of our smiling faces when you are laying on that table! xo
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Thinking about you all especially, Tori, Laura, Janet who are going through treatments, and Traci who'll be doing her TE soon.
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Thank you for prayers Theresa, LMFSM, and Paula! You are so good to me!
First treatment went well...uneventful...but I feel so sad now...just tearing up at the drop of a hat.
What is wrong with me? UGH...
peace and prayers,
Tori
DE COLORES!
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TORI NOTHING is wrong with you sweetie let yourself feel what you need to, it is a very emotional journey!. wrapping my arms around you in love and prayers and to all my other sisters going though treatments... May God give you strenght power and peace!!!
Love Maria
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Tori,
(BIG BIG HUGS) It's normal to be in the place emotionally that you are, and you have really just finished your chemo. It's good that you are letting yourself feel emotions (which you are.) I think you know that I was able to see a counselor once a week which was a pilot program in the BC Center. It was based on Survivorship and breast cancer. Don't ever be afraid to reach out and ask for help. I still go once a week, and this has been life changing for me. It's not for everyone, but mainly, if things are getting too rough, just call your MD o.k.? That being said, I would be more worried if you didn't have some pretty strong emotions after finishing chemo and then gearing up for you next treatment. We love you, God Loves you.
and maybe you could write out Theresa's prayer and take it with you and keep it by your side during rads?
trace
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Good evening sisters!
Tori - yes to everything everyone is saying. I also had the same chemo cocktail so I think you're still carrying the effects of those chemicals. They do a number on ya! But really, if you feel overwhelmed by it, talk to your doctor just to get you over the hump.
I've been having lots of thoughts and "coincidental" emails and newsletters come my way this week about joy, happiness, living in the present moment, avoiding negative thoughts and people. I think God's trying to tell me something. It started off this week with me being determined to try and make the best of our commute, so I thought I'd try to find something here and there that was pleasant. We've had some spectacular sunrises this week! Or I'd see a car that I liked or see something funny or hear something funny and of course said my morning prayers the whole time. My problem is the negative thoughts that would come creeping in or, God love him, my very vocal and negative behind the wheel husband. I've told him in the past that he's like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ... Dr J behind the wheel. So this week, I had it ... trying to be positive while being captive in a negative car. We had an email discussion since he tends to get all attitudey when we talk. So he's been better. I drove tonight and he found a Peter, Paul and Mary "station" on my Android and we listened to that. :-) He talked to a priest friend and he advised him to think of the commute as a desert. Skip always expects to find polite people on the drive and it just ain't so. Then I had a couple of emails come through... one was a monthly manager's tips email and they talked about "Worn Out at Work?" I certainly clicked on that one. They said "The fact is, many of us work in a world of drainers. And what, exactly, is a drainer? The term can describe anyone in the workplace-a boss, coworker, employee, or client-who sucks the life and energy right out of you." I could think of several people at work that drain me to the bone. The first of 12 energy drainer types was Energy Vampire Attack:
"DON'T: Let negativity become your go-to response. There's nothing more draining than a boss or coworker who is constantly negative. I call these folks "energy vampires." They are never happy, rarely supportive, and constantly nay-saying any and all ideas and suggestions that aren't their own. According to them, you might as well give up before you start.
DO: Respond constructively when someone offers up an idea. Even if you know more about a particular project, have more experience than the rest of your team, or are positive that the suggestions others are making are off the mark, hear them out. Let employees and coworkers know that when they come to you with their ideas, they'll be heard with an open mind and received with respect. Insist that everyone else practice positivity as well. While negativity squelches creativity and initiative, an encouraging attitude will keep creative juices flowing and encourage constructive dialogue.
As pessimism rises, performance decreases. You have to encourage optimism and guard against pessimism, or your team will suffer. "
That just says so much to me about work and the media and home etc. There's so much negativity everywhere and it drains us. I've had a lot of those types of messages come to me this week. I guess I never realized how negative people and things affect me... and I'm like a sponge. Skip asks me why I take things like other people's behavior personally. I don't know... I don't think negative people are attacking me personally, just like I don't think Skip's negative words about other drivers is a personal attack against me. But I seem to soak in other people's moods and find it hard to shake them.I guess I'm crazy. :-) But I do need to learn to either hang around positive people, read positive books, watch positive TV/Movies or ignore the negatives. I dunno.
I also read a good article about living in the present moment, but I've run on too much tonight and need to chill out.
God bless you all.
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Tori........ Sweet thing... I hated the feeling you speak of! Nothing we can do... NOTHING... it is what it is... and that to me was so unbelievable so unfathomable. I understand! XXXOOO
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Theresap60: Thanks for this great reminder about negativity & energy-suckers! When I am facing a challenging situation (now what could that possibly be?), I visualize a glass wall surrounding me that is as strong as steel. No one but me knows it's there, and I'm able to stay strong in that moment. The trick, of course, is remembering to take the wall down afterward so I can feel vulnerable — something I am not naturally good at yet have been forced to feel since the Big C snuck into my life in December. God's mysterious ways!
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Theresa,
Yes, I understand! I too am a psychic sponge.I am working on this in "my weekly."
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This is one of my current favorite prayers. It may be used as a canticle as a morning prayer. My choir opens our rehearsals with this prayer often.
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
Know that the Lord is God. it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endures for all generations.I am doing good I suppose. Hope all is well with all of you. Prayers for all my sisters.
Theresa, when I take my kids to school, we play slugbug.
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NOVENA/Prayer to ST. JUDENovena prayer:Must be said six times each day, For 9 consecutive days, leave 9 copies in Church each day for 9 consecutive days. Your prayers will be answered on or before the ninth day and has never been known to fail, no matter how impossible it may seem. It is your faith and belief in St. Jude patron of hopeless cases that help you.Prayer:Most Holy Apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the Church honors and invokes you universally as the patron of hopeless cases, of things almost despaired of. Pray for me, I am so helpless and alone. Make use, I implore you of that particular privilege given to you to bring visible and speedy help where help is almost despaired of. Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation and help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations and sufferings, particularly (intention/requests) and that I may praise God with you and all the elect forever. I promise, O blessed St. Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor to always honor you as my special and powerful patron and to gratefully encourage devotion to you.Amen Novena Prayer:May the most Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, loved in all the tabernacles until the end of time. AMENMay the most Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised and glorified now and forever. Amen.St. Jude pray for us and hear our prayers. AMEN, Blessed be the sacred Heart of Jesus, Blessed be the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Blessed be Saint Jude Thaddeus, in all the world and for all Eternity.Follow with and OUR FATHER, HAIL MARY, GLORY BE
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Ok Ladies
The prayer is posted above, I hope you can all commit to the 9 days of this novena: It is really so powerful - I promise!
Lets start this evening and I have the following intentions:
Theresa - Career intentions and Spiritual Vocations
Paula - Her mother's Health
Tori - Peace and Health to make it through Rads
Janet - Successful surgery next month
Michelle - Prayers for Husbands Career Path and finances, Sons Health, and Peace from anxiety
Cathy S- That she may be able to walk again in the midst of a serious brain tumor
Norm Auger (stroke recovery), Maureen Senese (successful chemo), Brianna (infection in her bloodstream - 18 years old) in your prayers.
Ellie's Children and Grandchildren, Peace, Health and Happiness
Maria's Family Health, Daughter's depression to lift and for her FIL's issues
For Traci to continue to be held and uplifted by our Lord in her path.
Please let me know and I can add more and modify before this evening.
God Bless you all Michelle
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Michelle can we add my familys health to the list, with my daughters depression and FIL issues now.. thank you so much!!
God Bless you all sisters!!!
Maria
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Please pray for my precious children, grandchild and grandchild to be! I love them so much and pray for their health and happiness. Amen xo
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updated!!
Ladies it would be a good idea to print out the list of intentions to keep with you for the 9 days so you can lift them up each day, and the Novena as well
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Rennasus - God's mysterious ways indeed!! That's a nice visual you use. I know what you mean about vulnerability too. I always had to be the strong one ... or I *thought* I had to be the strong one. I'm learning so much about letting go of stuff - baggage.
It's gorgeous outside!!! I love spring!
Michelle - thank you!
Three day weekend coming up! WooHoo!
Mary - I had to look up slugbug. :-) Found out it's Punch Buggy!!! That's a wonderful canticle ... joyful and uplifting.
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Wow. Trying to catch up!
Pat - yes, yes & yes for March 15!
Theresa - that's got to be the quote of the week - "stay away from people who suck the energy right out of you" !!
:) And so many signs from different directions -- for us to live in the present. Love it.Michelle - thanks for getting novena organized.
Tori - hoping rads will be much easier than chemo. Take it easy on yourself - you're on the home stretch now!!
Rennasus - I really liked the glass wall visualization.
Thank you Lord for a glorious sunny day today. Was it Michelle - "Little darling, here comes the sun!" It has been gloomy on this side of the country it seems for weeks on end.
"See" everyone tonight to start novena prayers!
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Ok, I found the live in the present moment - happiness article. It's promoting a Harvard University study that tracks people's happiness and ability to live in the present moment with an iPad app. I'm not interested in the app, but was in the article... a couple of paragraphs that made me think:
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/health/Track-Your-Happiness-115805594.html
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The study, led in part by doctoral student Matthew A. Killingsworth, highlighted the fact that we spend almost half of our waking hours with our minds wandering from the general task at hand, resulting in unhappiness."People in our study reported mind-wandering almost 50 percent of the time in everyday life but were significantly less happy when they did so. Additional evidence suggests that mind-wandering is very likely causing them to be unhappy, rather than the other way around," said Killingsworth.
"I am an anxious person and also a planner, so I tend to always worry about what's to come. I need to learn that when I am watching a movie, I can focus on the movie and not on the laundry sitting in the dryer that needs to be folded," said Denicola [a participant]. "Living in the moment provides you that freedom that you need from your daily responsibilities for the time being and ultimately will help you by easing stress in the future."
That's why experts, like Killingsworth, are pointing out that to live in the moment has its perks -- for example, a Sunday brunch with a friend is just that -- an enjoyable time, free of thoughts involving the dread of the upcoming work week.
"People who are happier tend to be healthier, and some evidence suggests that happiness may actually cause people to be healthier," Killingsworth said.
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Some good present moment quotes:
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough troubles of its own.
-- Jesus: Matthew 6:24Forever is composed of nows.
-- Emily DickinsonLife lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
-- Leo BuscagliaWe are always getting ready to live but never living.
-- Ralph Waldo EmersonHere's a biggie:
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.
-- Author Unknown"See" you all tonight!
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I am catching up on all of the great posts, individual intentions and Novena. I am checking in early to let you know I am here for 10:00 PM prayers.
So I think we are starting the Novena together tonight, followed by intentions?
If I may ask for prayers to be continued to be held by God and protected in my journey, that would be lovely.
Looking forward to seeing you all
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Im here too... I did print the novena with all the intentiosn as well
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I am here, and yes Pat for March 15th
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I am here...
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I'm here
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I am here
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I am here with you all.
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Im here too
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Tell me when you are starting.
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I'm here! I'm here!
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