My mommy told me the story of a little girl who wanted to get away from boarding school so much that she made a little altar in the schoolyard with 2 bobby pins and prayed diligently to God to make her parents get along so that she could go back home. God answered and she didn't ever have to go back to Holy Providence and she started a journey in prayer that has taken her around the world and back again.
God reminded me of that little girl this past Sunday, while we were on our way to church. The clouds parted in the most perfect cross that you ever want to see and peering through was the sunrise. Elyse said Mom, "look at the cross in the sky" and I said "where is it?" Sure enough, we all oohed and ahhed and enjoyed the wonder of the cross in the sky. That was the beginning of the liturgy of the day. The Holy Spirit started early, that Sunday, showing me the connections on this past Sunday. Usually, it is the beauty of the bells as we are marching into church that starts my perception of the themes and connections of the day.
This past Sunday, whoever was on cloud duty was a part of the liturgy committee and was letting me know that they were aware of Holy Providence also. I said to myself that the angels must have taken off their bobby pins to let us see the sunrise that God was showing.
It was an extra special Lord's day for us. We had a special singer and the Pastor preached about the bigness of God and the choir sang my favorite song by Larnelle. I don't remember now which one :)
It would take me ten years of writing, just to give you the connections between what the Word of God was in the service and the angel's bobby pins that let us see the sunrise. I have to write it because the children don't get the bobby pin joke between the angels and myself and the only people who know about Holy Providence are in New York. God is over all and thankfully we have all eternity to reminisce about the connections that God wove through our prayers. It will certainly take that long!
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Title- The Studious One!
artwork by Elyse
Of biscuits and syrup
tasty treats
Happy Saturday!
a day at the Raptor Center.
Widdle Emmie in outer space school
Emmie jumped on the bus and off it flew out into the atmosphere. There was a set of clouds with turbulence right above the house and it took a few minutes for my Emmie to buckle her seatbelt. They hit the bump hard and it knocked my Emmie out of her seat and she bumped her head. The video camera came on and the monitor looked through and stated, Ms. Emmie, where are you? You are not in your seat. Where are you? I am alright I fell because I hadn’t buckled correctly. Well jump up Emmie we have a long way to go and you have to be buckled there is entirely too much turbulence in the stratosphere for you to unbuckle now. As soon as we are through this weather system there will be straight sailing but right now you must buckle. Emmie scrambled into the seat with intensity and purpose now. She watched every cloud pass her window and her nose was pressed to the window trying to see the top of the house as it drifted slowly out of sight. Soon they were not only out of sight of the house, the sun came out brightly and just as quickly they were putting on the atmospherical breathing apparatus and the outerspherical lights. The ABA and the OL. These precautions were to make them appear to be satellites to the radar as they were out in the ionosphere. Emmie knew all about this now. She had gone to the orientation and had a good breakfast and it took them 20 minutes for her to get out past the atmospherical pull and to feel the zero gravity. It would be 15 minutes before the gravity simulators would take effect, a glitch in the system which was being worked on. Until then, they enjoyed the couple of minutes of floatation, while being connected to the seats by belt. The first thing they saw everyday was the strataflotsam. The items which had been dumped into the atmosphere by earlier generations. What would their generation do about this ecological waste area that remained floating above their heads? This was a question for the generations. For now it was the area that they had to guide through on the way to school.
Midnight at the OASIS
Sunset in Huntersville
My little Emmie
ran to the bus on the first day of the last year of school. 2 buns on the side of her head. She kissed me and ran at dawn to the bus. She was starting the adventure of a lifetime. I would never see that little girl again, she was going to woman school!
My Father and I 1989
to the tune of Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
A VISIT TO PAPA
Are you going to Mary Immaculate?
Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,
Remember me to the one who lived there,
He once was a true love of mine,
Tell him to buy me an acre of land,
Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,
Between the muddy Hudson in Jamaica Bay,
Then, He’ll be a true love of mine,
Tell him to sow in it seeds of pure cream,
Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,
And build Ice cream mountains and buildings of whipped cream,
Then, He’ll be a true love of mine,
Tell him to reap them with sickles of M&M’s,
Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,
And chew bubble gum and eat till we’re done,
Then, He’ll be a true love of mine.
Tell him to run it off down the motor parkway,
Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,
After your done 50 pushups
and jog down the West Side Highway,
Then he’ll be a true love of mine…
(Don’t wait for me today dad, The kids are sick again, My tummy’s bulging again, My heart is aching again, And now there’s no love there…)
He once was, a true love of mine….So, Girls, I do beg you don't miss your Daddy,Apricots, Chocolate cherries and Pie,You have one short chance to see him on this side, Go visit him and let your light shine.
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