Seek and You Shall Find

I felt a bit better today. I am grateful for good friends and for the graces that come associated with persistent prayer. I praise God for the fact that when I am in times of need, I have a good bunch of people around me of whom are full of extremely wonderful and sound advice.

I explained a feeling of weight to my lovely little Catholic brother, Japs, who received a bit of a word for me that was almost a direct message… Crazy. It made me feel a whole lot better, like God is hearing my prayer (which I know He has, but sometimes it helps to have confirmation). I also talked about the way I was feeling with two of my friends and they both gave me some great advice.

I don’t know if this has happens for anyone else, but… one particular scripture always pops up in my life and it always amazes me each time it happens. The very first conversation I had with someone about God, they recited Matt 7:7-8 to me, it stuck in my head and I just loved it. So about a week or so later, I bought a bible. I was on my way home from the airport on a train and I opened it randomly (not knowing really how to ‘use’ a bible, lol) and the exact same scripture fell open (at this time I was still trying to discern what my beliefs were)… Then, I went through RCIA and a lovely lady gave me a prayer card that had a scripture (Jeremiah 29:11-13) which is almost the same scripture as Matt 7:7-8. Also, since then I have been gifted things with this scripture written, I’ve had it pop up at random times and so… today I was in a Catholic book store and I bought a prayer card with the Infant Child of Prague. I didn’t look at the back of it… I didn’t know anything was written (nevermind that it’s a prayer card… I sure gots da smarts) and at dinner I was telling lovely Sarah about how I’d been praying for God to just help me seek out what it is that i really need to be doing… and I got the stuff that I bought out and was showing her the Infant of Prague and on the back was a prayer for the Novena of Childlike Confidence. Which… uses the scriptures for Matt 7:7-8.

Well.

I feel like the big guy is saying, “Child, I am hearing what you’re saying and now you need to be patient.” (while patting me gently on my head, of course) … and so I’m now letting go and letting God. Yep, for the 35,05833rd time in my life, I am relinquishing control of everything.

On another note… I am moving forward with my Rosary ministry. I have decided to learn to make knotted Rosaries and I made a couple little things last night. I made a Rosary for the car, a small little bracelet-looking Rosary. 10 beads and a Divine Mercy medallion and crucifix. And then I made a pink Rosary with some swarovskis… I am getting faster as time goes on, now to find a cheaper supplier of pieces. I went to a Catholic bookstore of where I normally get these medallions from today and they had no centerpieces. Bugger.

And so that’s it. Sarah goes home tomorrow. I am taking her to the airport with a friend.   and then back to reality and work. Stupid work.

God bless.