Essential, Indispensable, Fundamentally Required

January 27, 2026

Hello!!!  How is each and every one? We are in the second to the last day of our annual seminar.  All requirements are being rushed in and finished. The weather is getting cooler by the day unlike the first days of our arrival.  Then it was only cooler in the evening and at dawn.  These days it is cool, the breeze is cool even inside the house.

The other night the group was divided into two, one watched the movie, Mysterious Benedict while the other group watched The Good Lie.  I chose Mysterious Benedict because personally I could not fathom how a lie could be good when it is truly false, no true and I refuse to give into curiosity as to the reason for the title. A lie is a lie. In fact, there is no such thing as a white lie.  I have observed more and more persons are becoming good in reasoning out almost everything.  There is always a reason, an excuse for anything and everything.  It simply amazes me how complex minds have become and I don’t want to be counted among them or cultivate a mind as complex as they manifest.

For me what goes into the senses will always register and remain there and at any time convenient the devil will find use of them when the right time comes for him to get the person in his unwary moments.  And why would I put myself in such a situation? Another person I was talking with chose Mysterious Benedict also.  She said she was thinking the same way.

Following is the continuation of the chapter on Justice and the superhabit for equal situations (From  SUPERHABITS, The Universal System for a Successful Life by Andrew V. Abela, PH.D., Dean, Busch School of Business, The Catholic University of America, 2024).

HONESTY

There is only one superhabit of Justice for equal situations that is always strictly necessary, the superhabit of Honesty. When we are communicating with others, we owe them the truth.

In discussing this virtue with my students, they quickly bring up examples where telling the truth could incur harm:

“What if some creepy person stops me as I’m about to enter my home and asks me ‘Do you live here?’ Could I say, ‘No, I’m just visiting a friend — who is a police officer and a mixed martial arts expert, with a large gun collection’?” In other words, my students are asking whether you can lie to someone who demands the truth of you, if that truth will likely cause harm to yourself or another.

A classic example of this is the case of Sr. Simplice, the religious sister in Victor Hugo’s masterpiece Les Miserables, who had never told a lie in her life. The hero of the novel, Jean Valjean, is on his way to save the poor orphan Cosette, and is hiding in the corner of a room where Sr. Simplice is praying. The misguided inspector Javert is searching for Valjean, and enters the room. He sees Sr. Simplice. He knew she had never lied in her life “and venerated her especially on account of it.”

“Sister,” said he, “are you alone in this room?”

There was a fearful instant . . . The sister raised her eyes, and replied:

 “Yes.”

“Then,” continued Javert, “excuse me if I persist — it is my duty — you have not seen this evening a person, a man — he has escaped and we are in search of him — Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?”

The sister answered:

“No.”

She lied. Two lies in succession, one upon another, without hesitation.

There is extensive philosophical debate about whether or not one should lie in extreme cases like this. For the purposes of growing in the superhabit of Honesty, these arguments about extreme cases are a distraction. We should leave them to the philosophers — especially because of the temptation to use them to justify lying in cases that are not extreme but merely uncomfortable.

Let’s keep it simple. We should lie as little as possible. Honesty is crucial for both personal and societal well-being. Research indicates that lying is harmful to both your mental and physical health. One study followed a test group that was asked for the duration of the test not to tell any lies. The members were assessed weekly with a lie detector, and asked whether they had lied in the past week. Those who were able to refrain from lying had significantly better physical and mental health and improved personal relationships. Neuroscience research suggests that Honesty is a default mode and lying involves activating other networks, which can be more cognitively exhausting. Peterson’s rule eight is paraphrased as “Tell the truth — or, at least, don’t lie.”

If you would like to grow in the superhabit of Honesty, here’s a simple place to begin. Often we’re tempted to fudge the truth when we don’t know something we’re asked, particularly when we think we should have known it. A useful tip, for when you’re in that situation, is just to say, “I don’t know.” (I found this tip in what I thought was a delightful little book called Swanson’s Unwritten Rules. I later found out that, ironically, Swanson had plagiarized most of his rules, including this one, from an earlier book, W. J. King’s Unwritten Laws of Engineering.)

Or, as the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius said, “Shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it — this is knowledge.”

Remember that Honesty is a habit, and so like all other superhabits, anyone can acquire it. You just have to get started. Practicing saying, “I don’t know” when you don’t know is a good place to start.

Though Honesty is always necessary, there are two other superhabits of Justice for equal situations, Gratitude and Correction, which are only necessary in certain circumstances: when others have done something good, or bad, respectively.

LOVE IN Action

The Truth About Mirrors (Lami Akinyemi 1/9/2025)

The basis of any healthy relationship is honesty, not just in the pretty things or in the easy ones but in everything, whether they are ugly or difficult. If we want to grow in our relationship with Jesus, we need to be sincere with Him.

Sincerity is the quality of being open and truthful. It is a virtue, which means that it isn’t something that is one-off or that we do sometimes, it is a quality we try to live all the time.

Imagine, your friend rushes over to you and tells you “You’ve got to meet this guy!”

Well, that was Philip to Nathaniel. Our guy on the other hand, responds skeptically,

“Who? Where? Some guy from Nazareth? Come on, nothing good can come from there.”

One would think Jesus would have been shaking some imaginary fist at Nathaniel but He didn’t. Jesus even complimented him, because sincerity is something that’s important to God.

The more honest we are with God, the easier it becomes to be honest with ourselves and with others. God is your Father and the great Friend: You can talk to Him about everything. Don’t worry about seeming ridiculous. Tell Him exactly what it is, because friends tell each other the truth.

“Lord, I’m so tired. Honestly, I don’t even feel like praying right now, but here I am.”

“Father, I’m struggling with envy. I know I shouldn’t compare myself to others, but I can’t seem to help it.”

Sincerity does more than build relationships: it transforms them, because it’s attractive and people respect that. Being honest with others can be difficult. It’s normal for us to want to be good and to want others to think this way about us. So sometimes, we want to put forth only the best image of ourselves. Being sincere with others isn’t about grand declarations of honesty or confessing some huge secret; very often, it’s in the little things.

 “I told you I’d be on my way, but the truth is I’m still in bed. I’ll be late.”

 “That joke you made earlier hurt my feelings. I know you probably didn’t mean it that way.”

Being sincere is the deep exhale after holding your breath for too long: it is rest, it is home. There is a quiet relief in letting yourself be seen. When we allow ourselves to be truly known, we invite others to do the same, and in that space, something shifts. Sincerity is really a superpower, and when wielded right, it changes situations, relationships, and even hearts.

In the movie Mufasa: The Lion King, Mufasa never needed to prove himself to Sarabi, he was simply himself and that was enough. Living a lie is exhausting. Scar’s real tragedy wasn’t that he lost her; it was that he lost himself.

Be honest with the state of your soul, your dispositions, your vices and even your virtues.

St. Josemaría used to say that the stuff that weighs most on us, that we don’t want to say should be the first thing we say. Everything has a solution if we just speak up.

A mirror shows you a version of yourself - but never the whole truth. It’s a reflection, flipped and framed, but not the depth of who you are. Sincerity is stepping beyond the mirror, letting yourself be seen as you are - not just in glimpses, but in full truth. It is the difference between being seen as a shadow and being known in the light. It is the peace we experience when we realise that truth, even when it costs us, is the only thing that truly sets us free.

In short:

 Definition: sincerity is the quality of being open and truthful.

Young saints: Jesus complimented Nathaniel on his sincerity, even when he was critical of people from Nazareth (oops...) because this virtue is so important to God.

Books & movies: Mufasa: The Lion King shows how sad it is when someone worries about proving themselves and loses who they really are in the process.

From St. Josemaría: “Let us always act in the presence of God in such a way that we never have to hide anything from men” (Furrow, no. 334). More here.

·         Practical tips:

o    Don't filter your thoughts when you talk to God: you'll never seem ridiculous to Him, and you can talk to Him about everything.

o    Let go of your fear of being seen as less than perfect, especially with your friends. When you let them see you as you really are, you give them permission to be themselves, too.

o    Practice sincerity in little things: “I told you I’d be on my way, but the truth is I’m still in bed. I’ll be late” or “That joke you made earlier hurt my feelings. I know you probably didn’t mean it that way.”

o    If there's something weighing on you, share it as soon as possible. Everything has a solution if we speak up and ask for help.

GRATITUDE

When others have done good things to or for us, the appropriate response is the superhabit of Gratitude.

Gratitude is a real superpower. Extensive research links Gratitude with psychological, social, and physical benefits. Individuals who practice Gratitude tend to be happier, healthier, and have stronger interpersonal relationships. When people express Gratitude they experience feelings of joy and pleasure. Other research suggests that being grateful is associated with lower stress, improved quality of life, higher emotional awareness, as well as increased vitality, energy, and enthusiasm.

Attempts to increase Gratitude have been found to reduce physical and psychological symptoms, and increase overall well-being. One study showed that people who grew in Gratitude by keeping a daily Gratitude journal — writing down what they are grateful about — grew in both mental and physical health.

I tried this myself. While writing this book, I suffered from a bad case of sciatica. I had to stop writing, because the only position in which I was at all comfortable was lying flat on my back. I usually write at a stand-up desk, and I couldn’t stand, or sit, for more than a few minutes at a time. I started a Gratitude journal — and now I’m pain free. Okay, I also did physical therapy, a (very) short course of oral steroids, and acupuncture. But I do think that the Gratitude journal has something to do with it, because some weeks later I stopped writing in my Gratitude journal, and the pain came back. Now I write in that journal every night!

"Thank Him For Everything, Because Everything Is Good"

“Make it a habit to raise your heart to God, in acts of thanksgiving, many times a day." A new article on Christian life.

A life lived wisely means grasping what is essential, appreciating what is worthwhile, being alert against evil, rising above what is irrelevant. If riches are desirable in life, what is richer than Wisdom, who produces all things? (Wis 8:5). Wisdom has no price, and everyone wants to possess it. It is a knowledge that cannot be reduced to scholarship. Rather it is the ability to ‘”savor” what is good, to “taste” it. The Greek term sophia found in the Wisdom books was translated in Latin by sapientia, which is related to the English term “savor.” The original meaning of sapientia was a “good palate,” a good sense of smell. The wise man “savors” what is good. In an ancient prayer we ask God, da nobis recta sapere, “grant that we may savor what is right” (Prayer Veni Sancte Spiritus, Collect for the Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit).

Sacred Scripture presents wisdom as being readily attainable: Wisdom is radiant and unfading, and she is easily discerned by those who love her, and is found by those who seek her. She hastens to make herself known to those who desire her. He who rises early to seek her will have no difficulty, for he will find her sitting at his gates (Wis 6:12-14). Even so, to acquire this “connatural” knowledge we have to seek it, to desire it, to rise early in search of it. Doing so with patience, with the insistence of the Psalmist: Oh God, thou art my God, I seek thee, my flesh faints for thee as in a dry and weary land where no water is (Ps 63:1).

This search is the work of a lifetime, and hence wisdom grows as the years go by. As the Pope has often said, echoing the Book of Sirach (cf. Sir 8:9), wisdom belongs to the aged, who are “the store of the wisdom of our people” (Pope Francis, Audience, 4 March 2015).

It is true that age can sometimes bring disadvantages such as the hardening of certain character defects, a reluctance to accept one’s own limitations, or difficulties in understanding young people. But despite all this, the elderly often possess the capacity to appreciate, to “savor” what is truly important. And this, in the end, is what true wisdom is.

Saint Josemaría, when talking to a group of faithful of the Work, once made reference to this type of knowledge that is gained over the years. “In thirty years’ time you’ll look back and you will be astonished. And you will feel impelled to spend the rest of your life giving thanks, giving thanks…” (Notes from a family gathering, 21 January 1955, quoted in Noticias, August 1955, p. 53).  As the years go by, we will be left, above all, with reasons to be grateful. The sharp points of problems and difficulties that worried us greatly in the past become softened. We will see them with other eyes, maybe even with a bit of humor. We gain the perspective needed to see how God has been leading us, how He has made use of our efforts and even of our mistakes. Those who lived with Blessed Alvaro remember how he would often say with simplicity: “Thanks be to God.” The conviction that we only have reasons to be grateful contains an essential element of true wisdom. The wisdom that God increases in the souls of those who seek Him, and who can say, even before growing old, I understand more than the aged, for I keep thy precepts (Ps 119:100).

Everything is good

In 1937, amid the privations and worries in his hiding place in the Honduran Legation, Saint Josemaría wrote to faithful of the Work who were scattered throughout Madrid: “Take heart! Try to ensure that everyone is cheerful: everything is for the good, everything is good”(Letter, 17 May 1937, quoted in Critical-Historical edition of The Way, commentary on no. 268). Another letter written a month later to those in Valencia has the same advice: “Take heart. Strive to recover your joy, if very naturally you have become sad. Everything is for the good” (Letter, 15 June 1937, quoted in Critical-Historical edition of The Way, commentary on no. 268).

Everything is good, everything is for the good. These words are grounded in two verses from Sacred Scripture. One is the crescendo of God’s joy in creating that comes to a climax with the final verse: all that He had made … was very good (Gen 1:31). The other is Saint Paul’s maxim, in everything God works for good with those who love him (Rom 8:28), which Saint Josemaría condensed into the aspiration omnia in bonum! Years before, at Christmas 1931, those two threads from Scripture were woven together in a note that later became a point in The Way. Everything is good; everything is for the good. Both gratitude for what is good, and the hope that God will draw good out of what seems bad.

“Make it a habit to raise your heart to God, in acts of thanksgiving, many times a day. Because He gives you this and that... Because someone has despised you… Because you don’t have what you need, or because you do have it.

“And because He made his Mother, who is also your Mother, so beautiful. Because He created the sun and the moon and this animal or that plant. Because He made that man eloquent and left you slow of speech…

“Thank Him for everything, because everything is good”( The Way, no. 268. The original note was dated 28 December 1931).

The sequence of reasons to be grateful here follows no particular order. Since everything is good, the first thing that comes to mind, and the next, and the next… are all reasons for gratitude. “Because He created the sun and the moon and this animal or that plant.” Wherever we happen to look, Saint Josemaría seems to be telling us, we will only find reasons to be grateful. We see reflected here an overflowing admiration for God’s goodness: an astonishment that recalls Saint Francis’ “Canticle of the Creatures,” where everything also becomes a reason for thanking God. “Praise to you, my Lord, for Sister Moon and for the stars … Praise to you, my Lord, for Brothers Wind and Air, and fair and stormy, all weather’s moods … Praise to you, my Lord, for those who grant pardon for love of you” (Saint Francis of Assisi, “The Canticle of the Creatures”).

“Because He gives you this and that.” How many gifts God gives us, and how easily we get used to them! Health is a good example here. It has been defined as “life lived in the silence of the organs”: we usually take it for granted until our body starts to call attention to itself. Maybe only then, when we no longer have it, do we truly value what we once had. Gratitude here consists partly in “being alert”: listening carefully in order to perceive the silent, discreet way in which God gives us so many things. “God’s mercy accompanies us daily. To be able to perceive His mercy it suffices to have a mind that is alert. We are excessively inclined to notice only the daily effort and fatigue… If, however, we open our hearts, we can be constantly aware of how good God is to us, of how He thinks of us precisely in little things, thus helping us to achieve important ones” (Pope Benedict XVI, Homily, 15 April 2007).

We would belittle this thankfulness is we thought it simply meant paying back a debt of gratitude. It is much more: precisely because it consists in “savoring” the good, thanking God means “enjoying with Him” the good things He gives us, for we always enjoy things more when accompanied by people we love. Even the most prosaic things can then be a cause for enjoyment: for not taking ourselves too seriously, for discovering the joy of living “amid the little things of life, as a response to the loving invitation of God our Father: my child, treat yourselves well according to your means … do not deprive yourself of the day’s enjoyment (Sir 14:11, 14). What tender paternal love echoes in these words” (Pope Francis, Apost. Exhort. Evangelii Gaudium, 24 November 2013, no. 4).

All things are for the good

Remembering to be grateful for the good things God gives us is already a challenge. So what about less pleasant things? “Because someone has despised you”: because you have been treated coldly or with indifference, because you have been humiliated, because your efforts have not been appreciated… “Because you don’t have what you need or because you do have it.” What is surprising here is how calmly “having” and “not having” are placed on the same footing. Is it really possible to be grateful to God for the lack of health, or of work or tranquility? To thank God because we haven’t enough time (how often this makes us suffer!); because we haven’t enough courage, or strength, or ideas; or because this or that has turned out badly… Well, yes: even then, Saint Josemaría tells us, give thanks to God.

This attitude reminds us of the difficulties that Saint Josemaría was coping with when he wrote those letters from the Honduran Legation, and the suffering which gave rise to a note that is the source of this point in The Way (Cf. Critical-Historical edition of The Way, commentary on nos. 267 and 268). The invitation to be grateful for difficulties, which is even more explicit some pages later, originates in a note from five days before. “Paradoxes of a little soul. When Jesus sends you what the world calls good luck, feel sorrow in your heart at the thought of His goodness and your wickedness. When Jesus sends you what people consider bad luck, rejoice in your heart, for He always gives you what is best. This is the beautiful moment to love the Cross” (The Way, no. 873. The original note was dated 23 December 1931).

Despite its closeness in time, this consideration is placed in a different chapter in The Way, one of two chapters about spiritual childhood. This gives us the key to understanding the spiritual climate of his readiness to thank God “for everything, because everything is good.” Gratitude is a sign of the wisdom that comes with age and closeness to God; but it only comes when there is an attitude of “hope-filled abandonment” (The Father, Pastoral Letter, 14 February 2017, no. 8) in God’s hands. Saint Josemaría discovered it through the path of spiritual childhood. “Have you seen the gratitude of little children? Imitate them, saying to Jesus when things are favorable and when they aren’t, ‘How good you are! How good’” (The Way, no. 894. The text comes from a note dated 23 December 1931).

Thanking God for difficulties is certainly not something that comes spontaneously. In practice, it may even seem like putting on an act, or even being naïve, as if we were denying reality, and seeking consolation in a fairy-tale. Nevertheless, being grateful in these situations doesn’t mean closing our eyes to reality, but seeing more deeply. We feel reluctant to be grateful because we are aware of the loss, the setback, the damage we have suffered. Our outlook is still too earthbound, as happens with a child who thinks it’s the end of the world because his toy has got broken, because he has fallen over, or because he wants to go on playing. At the time it’s a big drama, but soon everything is fine again. “In our interior life, it does all of us good to be ... like those tiny tots who seem to be made of rubber and who even enjoy falling down because they get up again right away and are once more running around, and also because they know their parents will always be there to console them, whenever they need them” (Friends of God, no. 146).

The gratitude that Saint Josemaría talks about isn’t a “magic cloak” to cover over the unpleasant things in life; rather it means raising our eyes to look at God our Father who is smiling at us. This leads to trust, to abandoning ourselves in God, thus putting the setback in the right perspective, even though it continues hurting. To thank God when something hurts us means to accept it. “The best way to show your gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy” (Saint Teresa of Calcutta, No Greater Love, Novato (California) 2002, p. 33). Certainly, our first reaction isn’t a cry of joy; probably just the opposite. Even so, even though our heart rebels, we need to strive to be grateful: “Lord, it’s impossible, it can’t be… but thank you.” We need to accept God’s will: “I wanted to have more time, more strength; I wanted that person to be nicer to me; I didn’t want to have this difficulty, this defect. But you know best.” We will ask God to arrange things as seems best to us, but with the serene assurance that He knows what He is doing and draws good out of what we can only see as bad.

To be grateful even for what seems bad to us (as we are told in a text that was also written in December 1931) means “to believe as children believe, to love as children love, to abandon ourselves as children abandon themselves” (Holy Rosary, “To the Reader”. This passage was part of the original text that Saint Josemaría wrote all in one go during the Novena of the Immaculate Conception in 1931).

This abandonment can be expressed in many different ways in our interior life, but it always reflects the conviction that in God’s eyes we are very small, and so are our concerns. And, in spite of this, that they are important to God, more than to anyone else in the world. This gives rise to the gratitude of knowing we are loved: thank you for being here at my side; thank you because this matters to you. Amid God’s apparent distance, we perceive His closeness. And we contemplate Him in the midst of ordinary life, because problems are part of ordinary life. Faced with adversity we realize the deepest reason for thanking God for both good and bad things: thank you, because I meet Love everywhere. The true reason for acts of thanksgiving, the source of all gratitude, is that God loves me, and that everything in my life is an opportunity to love and to know that I am loved.

Suffering because of what we don’t have, because of people’s coldness, or because of what we lack, or from the consequences of our own mistakes… are all opportunities to remember, to wake up to God’s Love. We realize that, even though we find it hard to renounce something, to accept suffering or setbacks, what does it matter if we have God’s Love? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (Rom 8:35).

Hence it becomes possible for us to “thank Him for everything, because everything is good.” The Christian “madness” of being grateful for everything stems from divine filiation. Someone who realizes that they have a Father who loves them, truly needs nothing more. A good Father, above all, is to be thanked. This is the way Jesus loves His Father. Jesus is gratitude personified, since He has received everything from his Father. And to be a Christian is to enter into this love, into this gratitude: Father, I thank thee for thou hearest me always (cf. Jn 11:41).

Don’t forget to give thanks

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits (Ps 103:2). In the Scriptures God frequently invites us to remember, since He knows how often we are forgetful, like children who play with their toys and fail to think about their father. God knows this, and understands it. But He draws us gently to Himself and whispers to us in a thousand ways: remember. To give thanks, then, is also a question of remembering. That is why the Holy Father often talks about “a grateful memory” (Cf. e.g. Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, no. 13; Homily, 18 June 2017; Homily, 12 December 2017).

The readiness to give thanks for what annoys us, surprising though it may seem, in fact helps us to remember to thank God for pleasant things. Moreover, everyday life gives us many opportunities to “remember”: stopping for a moment to say grace before and after meals; dedicating part of our thanksgiving after Mass or of our personal prayer to giving thanks for the ordinary things in our daily life, discovering what is “extraordinary” about them: for our work, for a roof over our heads, for people who love us; giving thanks for others’ joys; seeing God’s gifts in all the people who assist us… We also experience moments when life seems especially beautiful: a striking sunset, an unexpected act of kindness, a pleasant surprise… And we discern, amid the apparent greyness of daily life, the brightness of God’s Love.

From ancient times, people have seen in the setting of the sun each evening an image of our life. Hence, if gratitude is part of the wisdom of someone who has lived a long life, how good it is to end each day by giving thanks. When we pause, in God’s presence, to consider how our day has gone, God will be “thankful” when we thank Him for so many gifts, etiam ignotis, (Saint Josemaría, In Dialogue with the Lord, London and New York, 2018, p. 135) including the ones we aren’t aware of; and also when we ask for forgiveness, with a child’s trust, for not thanking Him enough. (Carlos Ayxelà 12/26/2019)

CORRECTION

Correction is the superhabit of issuing correction or punishment when others do bad things, and we are in authority over them, whether in an official law enforcement role, a supervisory role at work, or as a parent. It may seem odd to think of Correction as a superhabit, and part of the cardinal superhabit of Justice, that is, something that we “owe” to others. But failing to provide Correction (in respectful and appropriate ways, certainly) to those for whom we are responsible for can be quite harmful to them. Especially as a parent. Peterson’s fifth rule is “Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them,” and he lays out in convincing detail the tremendous harm that can come to children whose parents don’t discipline them.

Honesty, Gratitude, and Correction are considered strictly necessary because they are called for in every case. The next two superhabits, Friendliness and Generosity, are habits for dealing with people and things, respectively. While both are superhabits, with the associated benefits of superhabits, neither is considered strictly necessary, in sense that Justice doesn’t require you to be friendly or generous to every single person you encounter.

With regards to the cardinal virtue or superhabit of Justice, there is a supposed “oughtness” that is due to certain things pertaining to the inalienable rights of persons and whatever is stipulated in the divine law. Order, respect for rights and relationship among individuals in family, society and countries are goods common among persons that need to be protected and accounted for by the authority in place.

Since your ultimate end and my ultimate end as well is happiness, let us always refer each and every concern of ours to our Creator and Father God who created each one of us and gave His only begotten Son to die on the Cross that you and I may be saved and be happy with Him after our serving Him in this life on earth.

That God’s will be done in you, in me and in each and every man on earth  is the best way we can be happy even in this life for that is the glory of God.  Our life that is lived according to God’s will is the best offering and response you and I can render God in thanksgiving for everything you and I are and have.  Talk to Him every day in the quiet moments of your day about these things and listen to what He tells you.  I will do the same.

See you in the next post, “May tomorrow be a perfect day; may you find love and laughter along the way; may God keep you in his tender care; ‘til He brings us together again.”

Affectionately,                    

Guadalupinky