Our Lady Of...

Well I don't think I gave enough of Our Lady. Here's another example of how I know it's the Catholic Church. First of all it's the only one who gives any honor to The Blessed Mother. (That I've seen, correct me if I'm wrong).
Mom was in the hospital and we were losing her we were told by Dr. Kavork. er..get a DNR. let her go etc. feeding tube. So this was still at the beginning of my trip and I just heard Mary does stuff. I started talking to her. "I don't know you very well, but I heard you do stuff. If you could help my Mom I'd sure be greatful". so mom gets better, coincidence of course people get better. When we got back to her room, she had a new room mate. A lady with a rosary who was not catholic and a biiig picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe right next to mom. Yea yea another coincidence. It's between She and I. It was like she was winking at me, "yes, I'm here." Then the other room mate left and a lady who was going to be a nun but got sick before she took her vows moved in. She considered herself already a nun and brought in all kinds of relics.
When my brother came to visit he was shocked. "Is this the Catholic room now?"
Mike and Mom didn't get along for quite a while, but towards the end he was very devoted to her. He did for my mom when he couldn't do for his own. Whoever doesn't know about Our Lady of Guadalupe is that she appeared pregnant. All her titles are the same person. Our Lady of Guadalupe is for The Americas.
Well Mom lasted another couple of years although I'm not sure she enjoyed herself. This was her purgatory I think. Mike put a scapular of conversion on the wall behind her. Also one day in the emergency room. I was giving her coffee which she wasn't supposed to have and I said to her "If you believed in God you might have some comfort" and she said, "how do you know what I believe?" I was shocked. Well she would never say it to me but to my daughter she answered yes if she saw she would believe. So here's to St. Thomas!! Mike thinks Mom Rose had enough suffering and she went straight up. He has great faith. I'm still learning. Always.
Peace ;)

Our Blessed Mother

Chapter 6

This will be confirmation for me regarding Our Blessed Mother and The Power of the Rosary.

We had so much trouble and stress, the usual and I had become overwhelmed with trying to get disability because I couldn’t focus enough to go to work. ADD became more prominent as I got older. It took two years, no surprise there. Actually that is very good. My brother-in-law’s step son finally got his, just before he died.

So all the paperwork and holding on the telephone a seemed to be getting us nowhere. I finally got my hearing though (after the initial denial, of course). I think this is part of the reason for so much homelessness. I was lucky to have people to help me. Anyway, I got the hearing, about a year of hardly an income, losing all my credit. Not a bad thing. I had more stress than when I was working. I still couldn’t get any work in my original field. I used to work in law offices, Golf Digest, etc. There was a lot of multi-tasking. I tried the lesser jobs which used to be a dime a dozen, now, not so much.

The hearing was about five minutes long because the front office girls at the free clinic didn’t know what “dr.’s notes” meant and sent the court the wrong thing. I was told it would be rescheduled in about three months and then two for the decision and some more before I would receive a check. So the future looked pretty bleak. We faced what so many had to face, homelessness.

This is when Mike had a feeling we should increase our rosary decades to include all mysteries for about a month. Only takes an hour, so we did it. Now usually you get at least a letter telling you when the hearing will be. I received no letter. I just woke up one day and all the back money was in my account. It was just…there. No notification. I couldn’t understand. I didn’t even spend anything until I could see whether I’d get a letter or some knowledge of what I could budget per month. Just was there. Then Mike told me what I didn’t know. When we prayed the rosary Mike was praying that after all I had been through, I would get my disability without having to go back to court. Coincidence? Perhaps. There have been many coincidences in our lives. I just know that God would not be upset that we honor His Mother and anyway the rosary is not really about her. It’s the Holy Gospel in a nutshell brought about for people in the times when not many could read. This is how things get passed down without the “telephone game” syndrome. We continue to do all the mysteries to this day.

Well, I think that’s enough for now.