Month: June 2023

I just read an article on-line about gender and sex. Well truthfully I only read a hundred words or less. Words, words, words and more words followed. It is quite pathetic to be so occupied with a basic truth: Men are men and women are women.

Some people say live and let live. Others condemn. I find it sad not to know you are either a man or a woman. Each person is not defined by sex or gender; that is a given. the simple truth. It is reality. All this focus on that sadly leaves the most important point ignored for man to ponder; What was I made for?

There is a podcast I am watching called Talent Talk Tuesdays. Lisa Maladivitch focuses on the fact that each person has his or her very own set of talents and how to identify those talents and develop them and use them. She has a website called WonderfulyMade 139.com. She does not mention sex or gender but focuses on how Wonderfully made each person truly is.

Perhaps one needs to change that focus on sex ID to ponder the fact, the reality, that each one of us is Wonderfully Made and everyone is seeking his or her Maker. The mystery of our own self! Psalm 139: 14

On Sept 20, 2021 I posted: A Prayer Before Writing. Recently one early morning on May 11, 2023, I scribbled down another and thought to share this one as well.

Dear Jesus.

Instill in me the love you have given us so freely. Let me imitate that affection every day, month, hour, and minute of my life. Help me to understand the suffering I bear and the sufferings of all those I love and to know, although not fully, their purpose.

Help me to seek forgiveness from anyone I have offended. Enlighten me through the Holy Spirit where I am lacking in knowledge and understanding. And as He promised His disciples that now we know in part, but then, they and we, will know everything. Amen

After reading the morning meditation and the Daily Mass readings in the Magnificat, I found this entry in one of my journals written on the last day of 2019.

Dec. 31, 2019 Life is truly a gift of God. Although it is a journey leading to eternal life, we cling to these few years on the earth. and to those with whom we share this journey. Even Jesus, knowing His destiny to be forever with His father, expressed His desire to be with his companions, his friends on earth, as written in the Gospel John 14:26-27.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. Peace I leave you, my peace I give you. I do not give you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

After saying this, Jesus left the Feast of Passover in the upper room with the twelve Apostles singing. He was at peace knowing they would be together again and in the meantime be reminded of the three years He spent with them on earth. It was the only time mentioned in the Gospels that He sang. He was joy filled because after the passion He would spend eternity with His Father and eventually with his friends, the Twelve and all of us, who believe in Him. We live in the here and now but God put eternity in the human heart.