Lord, That I May See

Conversations taking place on one evening walk: Turtle:  Spiders bite you and I don't like that.  But not Daddy Long Legs -- they don't bite.  They just tickle you.  But Mommy Long Legs do bite! ************ Rosebud, looking at a storm drain: I don wanna fall down dere.  Then I will bonk me. Then, reassuringly to me: And then you will come down dere and get me and I will get out. Turtle, kind of wondering: Well, I don't think the water will let you get out. . . *********** Rosebud: That car might crash me and I will get a boo-boo. Turtle, in a superior tone: If a car crashes you, you will be dead. Okay, seriously?? Kids totally pick up on all your fears, no matter how you try to hide them.

  #1.   Time is flying and so much is happening! I have randomly been having moments of panic, when I just want to yell at time:   STOP! Things are good right now.  Can we have a pause right here??   Anyways, I'm going to do a Seven Quick Takes on this lovely Friday to catch my blog up on what's going on around here in our lives. #2.   St. Therese of the Little Flower's feast day has been lovely so far.  Turtle chose peachy-orange roses at the store today and spent a long time arranging them in five vases (one for each of us) around the statue of the Little Saint that my husband bought me in Lisieux 6 years ago.  Tonight we'll say the Litany of the Little Flower  when Daddy is with us, but after lunch, we lit candles and sang songs.  Turtle wanted to sing a "St. Therese song" but I don't know any, so we sang songs about Love, and I told Turtle that St. Therese would like them....

In honor of the Little Flower's feast day, I wanted to share some of St. Therese's words on Purgatory -- which are some of my favorites of hers, and some of the ones that amaze and awe me the most.  To a Sister that confided to Therese her fear of purgatory, she said: "You are not confident enough, you have too much fear of the good God.  I assure you that He is grieved by it.  Don't fear purgatory because of the pain that souls suffer there, but desire not to go there, in order to please God who imposes this atonement with so much regret.  From the moment you seek to pleasing to Him in everything, if you have the unshakable confidence that He is purifying you at every instant in His love and allows in you no trace of sin, be very sure that you won't go to purgatory." To another nun who she heard speaking of purgatory: "Oh! How you grieve me!  You do a great injury to God in believing you're going to go to purgatory.  When we love, we can't...