My reflection today is a prayer for Fathers:

“ God our Creator, we give you thanks and praise for fathers young and old. We pray for young fathers, newly embracing their vocation; may they find courage and perseverance to balance work, family and faith in joy and sacrifice. We pray for our own fathers around the world whose children are lost or suffering; may they know that our God of compassion walks with them in their sorrow. We pray for men who are not fathers but still mentor and guide with fatherly love and advice. We remember fathers, grandfathers, great grandfather’s, and godfathers, who are no longer with us but who live forever in our memory and nourish us with their love.”

My reflection today comes from our Mercy Prayer Book:

“ Your love is beyond our understanding, oh God. You hold us in loving regard and cherish our tears. You are like a mother who tenderly cradles her child against the pain and suffering of life. May your love poured out so freely upon us flow through us to all in need of mercy. Make our hearts like that of Jesus. Amen”

Today is the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Please go back and re-read those words describing our God.
God’s love is beyond understanding and is compared to a mother cradling her child against pain and suffering of life.
What a perfect image of what God can do during this pandemic.
God cradling each one of us.❤️

My reflection today comes from Pursued Amen:

My reflection today:

“ The world was made to be beautiful – but sometimes we get caught up in every day actions completely forgetting about this completely forgetting about that what is truly important are the simple, basic things in life – honest, pure emotions surrounded by the majestic beauty of nature. We need to concentrate on the freeness and peacefulness of nature and not on the driven material aspects of life. We need to smell the clear air after the rainfall and appreciate the good in things. Each of us must be responsible and do our part in order to help preserve a beautiful world – the waterfalls, the oceans, the mountains, the large gray boulders, the large green farms, the fluffy pink clouds, the sunrise and sunset, ladybugs, rainbows, dew, hummingbirds, butterflies, dandelions. We need to remember that we are here for a short time and that every day should count for something and that every day we should be thankful for all the natural beauty. The world is a wonderful place and we are so lucky to be part of it.” Susan Polis Schutz

My reflection today is called,
How to Be Happy by  Robert Louis Stevenson:

1. Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in the simple things.
2. Make the best of your circumstances. No one has everything, and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with gladness of life. The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears.
3. Don’t take yourself too seriously. Don’t think that somehow you should be protected from misfortune that befalls other people.
4. You can’t please everybody. Don’t let criticism worry you.
5. Don’t let your neighbor set your standards. Be yourself.
6. Do the things you enjoy doing, but stay out of debt.
7. Never borrow trouble. Imaginary things are harder to bear than real ones.
8. Since hate poisons the soul, do not cherish jealousy, enmity, grudges. Avoid people who make you unhappy.
9. Have many interests. If you can’t travel, read about new places.
10. Don’t hold postmortems. Don’t spend your time brooding over sorrows or mistakes. Don’t be one who never gets over things.
11. Do what you can for those less fortunate than yourself.
12. Keep busy at something. A busy person never has time to be unhappy.”