BEADS OF JOY 04-05-19
“Lent – Day 27”
©2019 James Dacey, Jr. OFS
“Joy - You Too Can Have Some”
Lenten Season – Day 27
My Friends,
Well here we are in the final day and thoughts about Joy for now.
Today I hope that I can lead you to some ideas and activities that help spark a
new era in your own life spiritually. This is a time for you to experience so
much Joy that you can't contain it anymore and all you want to do is share it
with others. Just as a side note, remember that just because you are sharing
all your Joy with everyone around you, no matter how much you give away, you
will never run out. When we are blessed with Joy by God, God sends us a never-ending
flow of His love, without ever ceasing. For starters I want to say that we need
to build our day around Jesus, instead of trying to squeeze Him in somewhere so
we can say we "prayed" today. You can make all the money your
heart desires, live in the largest most expensive home, drive the newest
vehicles, but in the end without Jesus, none of that means anything at all. Now
on the other hand, if you have all those things and you have Jesus in your
life, then you will be led by God's Holy Spirit to use those blessings to bless
others in some way, by reflecting Jesus through those things.
I like to begin each day with an immediate thought of my Lord,
thanking Him for allowing me another day to serve Him. I think of that even
before I get out of bed. I don't fully recall when and where all that started,
but I always think that as I awake. I sort of have a similar approach to going
to sleep. For starters I go to sleep when I am sleepy, I never try to force
sleep, I tend to inevitable just get out of bed when I do. When I go to sleep,
I get into that comfortable position, you know what I mean, the pillow is just
right, the covers are perfect, the lighting is dim and the breeze of the fan is
perfect, LOL. OK you get the idea. Well as I begin to go to sleep, I close my
eyes and look around inside my eye-lids... Stop
laughing LOL. And as I do, I ask Jesus to take me on another fantastic
journey of dreams in my sleep. Weird I know?? But I like it, I fall asleep
fast, many times I see a door open with light, or a window glaring light
through it, I basically look for the light in the darkness of my eye-lids. I
always find it, and then I move towards it. I figure if I die in my sleep, it
must be something like that. It's a cool way to go to sleep.
See how interesting it can be when I bring you into my inner
circle of Joy. LOL. You never know what you'll learn about me. Well let's
continue thinking about what else can be done so that you to be strange, goofy
and overly excited as I am in this life. LOL. You may have heard this, spend
time in front of the cross, looking at Jesus hanging there on it. The crucified
Jesus is a powerful image when you really understand that Jesus is God and Man
and that He was killed because of our sins. We put Jesus on that cross. Sit in
front of the cross often. I have a 12-inch cross with the crucified Jesus
nailed onto it literally. I hold that often and allow His love for me to shine
from it. It's heart wrenching seeing someone love sinful old me so much that
they would willingly die for me to save me from my own sinfulness. Another
thing I do very often is watch The Passion of The Christ. That
movie is probably the closest thing to the real violence Jesus experienced. I
am willing to bet He was treated even worse. Watch the Scourging at the Pillar
scene, it tears my heart out every time I watch it; and I keep watching it
keeping my head and my heart focused on what Jesus did for me.
Finally, I want to say, you need to spend time in prayer on your
knees. In your home, in a chapel, at Mass, become a true person of prayer. As
long as kneeling doesn't injure you and you are able to get up, then you need
to kneel before Him. He deserves our worship and I believe by doing that often,
it keeps our mind and heart in focus that we are kneeling before God, the
Almighty God of the Universe. We are not bigger than Him and He is not there
for our disposal for whatever we ask, and we dare not treat Him like He is a
nobody or just a statement on money. He is God. He is a loving, merciful,
caring God, but remember He is still God. And most importantly each day we need
to be humble before Him, arrogance and a mean spirit towards Him is no way to
show God how much we love Him. Jesus loves us so much, embrace that love that
He freely gives us and once you got hold of it, share it with everybody you
can.
Today's Challenge: Spend a minimum 30 minutes total a day with
Jesus somehow. 15 minutes of prayer, 15 minutes of silence before the cross, be
creative and spend time with Him, (Pray The Rosary, The Stations of the
Cross). Then build your day around those activities. Your life will never
be the same, nor will you every be able to live each day without Him once you begin
doing this.
"Seven Deadly
Sins; Seven Lively Virtues"
w/ Fr. Robert Barron
w/ Fr. Robert Barron
LOVE YOU GUYS !!!!
Your brother in Christ Jesus
And His Most Blessed Mother,
Jim (The Rosary Man) Dacey Jr OFS
Today is Friday: We pray the Sorrowful Mysteries:
The Sorrowful Mysteries
1. Agony on the Garden (Sorrow for sin) –Matt 26:36-46
2. Scourging at the Pillar (Purity) –Mark 15:1-16
3. Crowning with Thorns (Moral Courage) –Matt 27:27-31
4. Carrying of the Cross (Patience) –Mark 15:20-22
5. The Crucifixion (Perseverance) –Luke 23:33-46
Thank you Lord for loving us so much…
Your brother in Christ Jesus
And His Most Blessed Mother,
Jim (The Rosary Man) Dacey Jr OFS
Today is Friday: We pray the Sorrowful Mysteries:
The Sorrowful Mysteries
1. Agony on the Garden (Sorrow for sin) –Matt 26:36-46
2. Scourging at the Pillar (Purity) –Mark 15:1-16
3. Crowning with Thorns (Moral Courage) –Matt 27:27-31
4. Carrying of the Cross (Patience) –Mark 15:20-22
5. The Crucifixion (Perseverance) –Luke 23:33-46
Thank you Lord for loving us so much…
Rosary Man Jim’s Sorrowful Reflection: http://beads-of-joy-blog.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-sorrowful-mysteries_11.html
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