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Good night!
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Hail Mary,Full of Grace
The Lord is with thee
Blessed art thou among women
And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus
Holy Mary, Mother of God
Pray for us sinners,
Now and at the hour of our death, Amen
God bless all my bc sisters, xo
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My Lord in the heavens, sacred and glorified is Your name. Grant me the grace to come into Your kingdom, understanding that the only way is through Your will on heaven and earth. Give me the nourishment for body and soul, and please forgive me when I stray from Your word as I learn to forgive and leave hatred in the sand. Lead me away from the fatigue that leaves a soul weary and vulnerable to evil. For You are the heaven and the earth, You are the power of love and grace, and all the glory is Yours, O Lord, forever and ever, Amen.
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Beautiful Gina, I will read this one all day! Thanks
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Beautiful Gina, I will read this one all day! Thanks
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Sagina and LMFSM----I C&P'd the prayer to the prayer board the librarian---------Lovely Gina just as you are.
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Well I am officially loosing my marbles, I was saying the rosary on the couch while prayers were being said last night. No thought flickered through.
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maybe that is good dear sas--your thoughts were with Jesus and Mary! xo
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LMFSM------yes , but I said several times during the day don't forget prayers tonight-------yes i was praying , but it worries me regarding memory. But I agree where and how is what matters L&H&P sheila
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Happy Father's Day Frank!
Sheila - my memory is very poor, especially after chemo or menopause or tamoxifen or all three. Ellie was right, you were definitely there in spirit.
Last day of the novena. I pray the Holy Trinity touches all of us.
1 Corinthians 2:9-16
It is a wisdom that none of the masters of this age have ever known, or they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory; we teach what scripture calls: the things that no eye has seen and no ear has heard, things beyond the mind of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him.
These are the very things that God has revealed to us through the Spirit, for the Spirit reaches the depths of everything, even the depths of God. After all, the depths of a man can only be known by his own spirit, not by any other man, and in the same way the depths of God can only be known by the Spirit of God. Now instead of the spirit of the world, we have received the Spirit that comes from God, to teach us to understand the gifts that he has given us. Therefore we teach, not in the way in which philosophy is taught, but in the way that the Spirit teaches us: we teach spiritual things spiritually. An unspiritual person is one who does not accept anything of the Spirit of God: he sees it all as nonsense; it is beyond his understanding because it can only be understood by means of the Spirit. A spiritual man, on the other hand, is able to judge the value of everything, and his own value is not to be judged by other men. As scripture says: Who can know the mind of the Lord, so who can teach him? But we are those who have the mind of Christ.0 -
I wrote that prayer while thinking of The Lord's Prayer. It's just a paraphrase but is so what I have been feeling lately.
Mass was invigorating yesterday. Went to another parish to be able to visit with my parents all day today. The priest talked about the Holy Trinity and how we are all more than one in one. He used an example of grandmother, mother, daughter to relate to the trinity. I kept thinking - cancer suffer, cancer fighter, cancer survivor!
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My dear sisters..
Always praying and lifting your prayers, petitions, and intentions up to Our Lord.
I haven't posted much lately...and I have no excuses....I miss being in the "loop" and am doing my best to catch up and see what has been going on with everyone...
I go through these phases where I just can't come on the boards because I see sad things and let my mind go to dark places...and yet, I feel like I must come to encourage others and be there for them as so many have done for me...
I struggle for days and then I feel okay...it's so frustrating, but know that I have to work through it to get better...
I was in New Orleans last weekend...went to the Cathedral there and lit candles for us all... lifting all our prayers up to Our Heavenly Father...
God bless you all...
Tori
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Dear Tori believe it or not what your feeling is normally abnormal or abnormally normal.
When my counselor explained PTSD to me is you have an event +one minute. The event is the trauma, every minute beyond the trauma is related to the trauma. And that our emotions are constatnly undalating . Like just as you say sometimes you just have to go away, you struggle for days and then feel okay. Whereas, for standard depression related to an event. you don't have the undulating emotions and there is a progressive recovery. To bad I didn't retell it as good as he did. He took a very complex subject and reduced to 4-5 sentences that made it very simple to understand.
For all of us we each have had a trauma. maybe it was being told of BC , maybe it was the surgery, may be the death of someone here. or close.
Tori I'm with you in every word you have said, and I think you gave it quite a good explanation too. I'll add it to my mirror. My Mirrors getting quite full. I think the part where you say you just need to go away for awhile. Is really quite healthy. Recognition that we need time to regroup--good Thank you.
L*H&Ps sas
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Hello All
Thank you Theresa for the father's day greeting. Number 2 princess was home for a week and left a week ago. I was at a football match yesterday (Sunday) and got a text during it from her wishing me happy father's day. I thought that was all I would receive so thought no more about father's day. Number 1 princess came home very late last night for a few days. She was hardly in the door when she said I have something to do upstairs. She came back down with a (good) bottle of red wine, a large bar of dark chocolate - 70% cocoa - and a card. Number 2 princess had bought them and signed the card and hidden them and told number 1 princess where they were for her to sign the card and give them to me. Believe it or not but the card was the best part of the gift
BTW the team I was supporting lost to the better team. OK on the count of 3 girls a collective sigh - 1, 2, 3, AAAAGGGGGGHHHHH. The other team was better, it was better at committing fouls without the referee seeing them, they were better at taking a dive when they were tackled and letting on they had been fouled and thus getting a free. ( Frank is as usual always the sportsman lol)
Theresa did I tell you that I have a sister called Theresa?
Well the solemn novena I was telling you about is continuing. It ends this Thursday. I was at the 3 30pm session on Saturday which was one of 2 on Saturday where they had an anointing of the sick. They obviously had to bring in extra priests from other parishes and they worked their way through the congregation anointing people. By strange coincidence the priest who anointed me Fr Forsythe - himself had a brush with cancer. I mouthed to him "metastised liver cancer" he then shook my hand and after the anointing put his hand on my head and "called" St Peregrine's blessings on me. After he had blessed me and moved on my wife said " you got better value than every one else" lol.
Yesterday after we got home from the football and stopping off for a meal on the way home we went to the 8 30pm session last night. There was a folk group at the mass. Don't know about you girls but I dislike folk groups at mass and this lot were far far too loud.
Sas I think I must have missed something, what is the reference to your mirror getting quite full?
Still praying to St Peregrine and saying a novena to St Joseph for number 2 princess that she will obtain an employment position.
take care and keep the prayers going.
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Hello Frank-I have a large BR mirror. Things that I want to remember are posted on the unused side so I can glance at them. It's getting full LOL.
Sounds like your Princesses take care of dear old Dad quite nicely. Happy belated Fathers day.
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There is a new drug that can be used for getting off pain meds. Doc has to be certified for treatment plan and use of the drug. Pain meds should be used for pain only. There are other drugs appropriate to neuropathy type pain. You should not be taking pain meds for escape or emotional pain. Seek counseling for those types of feelings. Check with your social worker and see what they can suggest. Cancer centers usually have counselors connected and may be he can figuire out something. Plus they may have one of the docs certified to get you off pain meds. It doesn't have to be a pain mgt doc my PCP is certified. I didn't have to use her for this, but I just called her office and got the name, going to go to site and see what i can find. I'll post this and then edit with the link.
edit for suboxone link . It also has a doctor locator. Once you're ready to stop your pain meds, if you have been on them along time this is a safer way of doing it. You can check with insurance to see if it's covered.
I wrote the above for someonelse on another thread. Here as info only or sharing if someone needs it
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Tori, I know what you mean. I have become quite upset over many of the the posts I've read. Sometimes it is just because I am very sad for the poster, sometimes it is because I get nervous that it will happen to me. My DH even told me I should stop visiting this website all together. I am trying to be careful about what posts I click on now. I look at which forum it is in and making an effort not to click on anything that will scare me. It is just not the right time for me to read anything about anyone having recurrences or anything like that. At some point I think I will be able to handle it, but not now. However this forum always inspires me and gives me peace.
Went to my mom's cousin's funeral today. She was an Immaculate Heart nun. The funeral was in the chapel at Camilla Hall, the nursing home for the Immaculate Heart nuns. Said a prayer to my mom's cousing and in the chapel for all our intentions. Namaste.
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It's hard sometimes isn't it? To know that God's will be done without our permission, without our consultation? We as women have to control so much as daughters, wives, mothers, and we do. Then something comes along and takes all control away from us, we have to rely on strangers, on doctors we have never met, we have bills, sometimes can't work, extra stress in our daily lives, and some days we don't care at all, the medications or treatments take us there, to the void of the cancer abyss.
And when we find ourselves here, we have to remind each other that God is in control. Something in our lives has led us to these doctors, strangers, work places, and even serenity. My plan was in motion 15 years ago when my husband left me and I couldn't see why....I never could have done this with him in my life....my daughter chose a private school different from the one I was thinking of - she made wonderful best friends and 7 years later their father - the pathologist pointed me in the right direction with surgeons and doctors - and he personally did my pathology...
God is in control, I only thought I was.
Praying for everyone to find the peace and healing of Jesus.
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Kay sorry about your loss of your Aunt. My Aunt is a Dominican. It is amazing what wonderful care the nuns give each other as they age and become disabled. If only all of society mirrored it. I agree avoidance on many threads is a must for sanity.
Sagina Hmmm I have said the hardest thing for me to accept in the last two years was that I couldn't fix things. Your so right.
Bless us all namaste s
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Gina, I got so much comfort from your words. Thank you. Hang in there Kay! Love to all my sisters! xo
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kay1963-thank you for your response and being so honest...it can certainly be a struggle..sometimes even more now than when this journey started...My sincerest condolences for your aunt..
sagina-you speak so beautifully..thank you for sharing
Thank you my sisters for all the wisdom, advice and love you give so freely...
God bless and protect us all,
Tori
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Sisters and brother in Christ. I had a dream this past weekend while we were concluding the novena to Blessed John Paul II for his intercession that I have been hesitant to post. I told it to Becky tonight and she said I should post it, since I had the dream while we were praying the novena. It has helped to answer my nagging question "why on earth does God love us? We do such awful things to each other!!". I believe I can see other people as God might see them and I want to pray for the souls of those who do wrong. I hope you don't think I've lost my mind!! Maybe you would see something in it differently and I'd be interested to hear it.
Scene 1
I was standing on a dock with someone/some being beside but in back of me, so I don't know who/what he/she/it was. Maybe an angel or a saint or a family member. We looked out at flood waters swiftly rushing by and it was filled with drowning animals, mostly pigs. But there were geese and ducks and horses, etc. I was so upset seeing them drowning and asked "What can we do to save them?!!" They were all going to die. Some were trying harder than others to keep their heads above the water. Some gave up and were swept away into the abyss.Scene 2
We were walking across a bridge. To the right was rushing water again, coming under the bridge, and distressed animals, but what struck me were the white horses. They were running with the current as if leading them... their feet were touching the bottom of the raging river. The one leading white horse was very big. I was anxious for him that he might have his head cut off by the bridge, but in amazement, he didn't.Scene 3
Looking across to the other side of the bridge, in the distance, the river was rushing by with the animals, but I noticed dry land on the shore on an incline. A man on a horse was leading some of the animals, who would follow him, up the embankment so they would be saved. I felt really good about that and could hear myself cheering for the others in the flood to follow him to safety.Scene 4
There was a grassy mountain in front of me with teams of animals running up it together... all kinds of animals... a bear stood out b/c I thought, being a bear, he'd attack one of his follow runners, either a horse or cow or duck, but they were all getting along b/c they had one purpose in their running up the mountain. Then I saw 2 horses start to fight and I remember thinking "What are they DOING?" Then they tumbled down the mountain together. I remember thinking, how unfortunate, but I wasn't distressed like I was for the drowning pigs and ducks in Scene 1. It was like they tumbled down and had to start all over again, but were not going to drown.Then I woke up. I just lay in bed thinking about the different scenes. What they meant. I couldn't stop thinking about Scene 1 and the drowning pigs. I thought, they didn't want to drown ... their little souls were begging to be saved. I thought, it's our free will, our choices that make us drown. I told Skip, that when I'm driving in traffic or am annoyed by a rude person, I'm going to pray for that person's SOUL, that soul does not want to do that rude act. The free will of that person is doing it. Every single one of us has a pure soul that's in agony to commune with its Maker and be good. I couldn't figure out the Second Scene. After telling the dream to Becky, and wondering if they were angels or saints, it made me wonder if what I was looking at were the prophets of the old testament. Then I looked on the other side of the bridge and the only "person" in the dream was riding a horse up to safety. When I woke up, I thought the "person" was Jesus and now I'm really thinking it was Jesus, our Savior, the new testament! The animals running up the mountain I figured were the saved animals - "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith" (2 Timothy 4:7). The two naughty horses taught me that even though we're saved, we still run the risk of stumbling by our free will, but we can pick ourselves up and continue the race.
Phew... that's it. God bless you all.
Kay - prayers for your aunt's heavenly soul!
Gina - you are absolutely right about control.
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Theresa, That dream is amazing. The way you interpreted is so right on and you are very Blessed to have been shown this.. Thank you for sharing.
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You're welcome Betty... it was bizarre. :-)
It's been very quiet here... summer time is busy time, fun time, kids out of school time. I hope everyone is healthy and happy!
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Hi Theresa saw the dream---------so vivid-- highly unusual ,and lengthy --highly unusual , able to remember so much detail ---highly unusual-----------all extremely interesting.-----would it be inappropriate to run it by your SFO group. How often have you had such a dream of vividness , clarity, and length?
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Hi Sas~ how are you? I've often thought I was a bit mad with my dreams. Sometimes they feel like they go on the whole night, like a movie, and I wake up remembering each detail and feeling so tired. It's like my brain goes out to a movie and forgets to turn off to get some rest....most of the time they are so bizarre. My DD tells me to write them all done and give Stephen King a run for his money!
and medications, oh forget when my brain is on meds, even more vivid dreams.....
Miss you all, trying to catch up at work, boy was that chemo fog something. Praying for healing for all!
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I know that it means something, that I don't remember or remember few dreams. That's why I'm in awe of yours, Theresa. It seems a whole crew should analyse it. The symbolism is beyond my comprehension, but there are those that have knowledge. I know many ancient tribes put great belief into dreams. and studied them etc. I know you have interpreted it, but self interpretation tends to include our own biases.
I did have someone say sheila the other day-------no voice I recognized and that was it???????
I'm still going to counseling and just had a shocker the other night that ---in several pivotal points in my life where, I thought I was doing the right thing. It was based on faulty input because of faulty input from a previous time. So dealing with the change in the fork in the road thing. One sentence changed my whole life. And it was based on Gods teaching and it went caflouhy. It'll take awhile to sort that one out. I guess I'm projecting my bias to your bias
It's just your dream ---hope you don't think this sacrilegious-----is of the depth that we read about in old texts. where scholars spend decades and centuries trying to interpret them. I guess that's pretty out there
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Ladies..
I pray you are healthy.... body and soul!
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Sheila - I've had about 3 ethereal dreams over the years, and yes, definitely, it has my biases. I remember once I had a vivid dream after doing a laborious rosary novena for my brother, who was dying of cancer. I interpreted it as if Mary was telling me everything was going to be ok, as he was going to be cured. But he wasn't cured. Maybe Mary was telling me that my brother was going to a better place. It was a very white dream, bright, Mary was very white, like a statue and my brother's dog, who *was* a white pit bull, was VERY white and I was rubbing his tummy. Ended up, I had to adopt Mojo once my brother passed. So basically, it was a Mary and Mojo dream and my brother was inferred. The other dream, again, my bias, was I was lead up a dark stairway, like in a castle, and we (again a being was with me) came to the top and there was a huge window looking out at a mass of people (like the animals) going somewhere. All kinds of people and all kinds of personalities but everyone was getting along despite there being different personalities ... happy go lucky, vs grumpy, vs young vs old. I thought I was looking at heaven or purgatory as they were going to heaven. When I was telling my dream to a co-worker, who said she was really good at interpreting dreams, she had a different take on it, so I felt a little deflated. :-) She thought I may have some prejudices deep within me and needed to overcome them and see that everyone has value. Hmmm, I already knew everyone has value, despite being annoying or rude or even criminal. So, I figure, if I can interpret something good from my dream to help me to be a better person, then so be it. If I can help someone else by telling them the dream, then so be it. Maybe they're just for me. I guess I could share them with my SFO teachers. Unlike other run of the mill dreams (most times I do not remember dreams for more than an hour after waking - even bad dreams leave my memory within a day), I woke from these dreams with a feeling that I had been touched by a Spirit... kind of an amazed peacefulness. My brother died in 1997 and I still remember that dream! Like Gina, maybe I should just jot them down and tuck them away somewhere. I don't think Stephen King would be interested in mine!! :-)
Pax et bonum!
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Well your co worker--------wasn't really trained , was she? I wouldn't presume to interpret an others dream,because I'm just amazed that anyone dreams so completely and vividly and remembers them. There was something I did read and of course can't remember what the whole thing was, but it had to do with the absence of dreaming. Of course, I worried because of the rarity that i sense or remember a dream. The only thing I can say about your co worker is I think she was way off base. How can you interpret something so happy and peaceful as a negative.
I did take a problem to my counselor --the questions were "what do you think it means? What i find interesting with my counselor, he will listen , and when i ask a question, he will drop in that I have already identified what i wanted to know, and he will quote back. And he's right. The words had already come from me, I just didn't recognize their significance. -------In other words I agree with you. Your dream again is something. I guess may be what I was thinking if Skip or another trusted SFO played 20 questions with you, that may be even more could be pulled from you about your thoughts on the elements of the dream.
The bummer with this last go around with my counselor, was it did in fact change my whole life, by one sentence uttered so long ago,. I'm not blaming God as may be, the first read might imply. I was just to inexperienced at the time, to understand it all. Now 40 + years later. It's a bit overwhelming to think and say OH WELL can't change history , accept what things came to be. Irony, he said grieve for it awhile and then let it go. Well i said add it to the grief over Greg , The grief over my little dog that died two weeks later, my DS moving away, the loss of my health and livelihood. And working through problems that may be new caners or mets. Ok.
Thank God --He's there and Mary too. I can honestly say it all sounds bad. But my Faith has me in a good place. Coming here has been as healthy as it gets. All your loving support throughout has made a huge difference. Today would have been our 39th wedding Anniversary. Tonite some dear friends are taking me to dinner to celebrate our life together. Then going to the BONFIRE of the GODESSES to toast and joke and maybe throw something in the fire. Theresa, I'm going to throw that twit that made such a idiotic dream interpretation. It's all just symbolic, But we laugh and joke around the fire. Come please if you care to. Around 9est time so I can get to prayers on time.
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