Miracles and Wonders

Today’s readings (Acts 5:12-16 and John 20: 19-31) were encouraging words to confidently apply and live the gospel of Jesus with greater trust to step out of the boat and onto the water.

The sunset over La Colonia

Last week ,”Holy Week" was an amazing time to witness God’s love, mercy and healing. The week started with the Lord encouraging us to journey deeper with a local man (Ivan) and his family by asking them to join us in door to door evangelization in one of the poorest neighborhoods in town, La Colonia. The simple invitation was life altering as it led to two miraculous encounters and snowballed to create more laborers for God’s great harvest.

Walking to La Colonia to invite people to pray

The last door we knocked on Sunday night was the first miraculous encounter with Christ resulting in the spiritual and partial physical healing of a man with severe Parkinson’s disease. We initially knocked and the door was unanswered. Ivan whistled through the screen door and we were then greeted by an elderly woman. We invited the family to a worship gathering the following night and asked if we could pray for them before departing. The family asked that we pray for their declining health. The woman had pain and scoliosis; the man (G.) had Parkinson’s disease, struggled to walk and was unable to speak. We prayed for the couple asking that the Lord would fill their hearts with HIS peace and love, and to encourage them with hope. We asked that any spirits of despair or other spirits not of Jesus Christ be driven away from them and they be filled with the Holy Spirit. After praying, I felt compelled to give the man a miraculous medal that was in my pocket. We gave them hugs and shared with them how much the Lord loved them. We could clearly see the Lord had touched their hearts and given them hope with HIS peace and HIS love. The man, looking at the medal, spoke asking what the medal was. He asked his wife if they had any string; he looked very happy and immediately took off walking to another room looking for a string to create a necklace with the medal. His wife was in tears and clearly amazed; she said he had not spoken nor walked like he just had in years. The next night they gathered with us for praise and worship and the following night for Mass. This Mass was the first time this man ever witnessed the holy Mass in his life. After the mass, the couple asked if the priest could marry them on the spot. While the priest was unable to marry them on the spot, they are eager to become catechized. Praise you, Jesus! 

G. (pictured with Ivan) getting water from an agave cactus to share with us

After this powerful encounter, Ivan asked if we could pray with a lady in town, D., that he said was on her death bed. I agreed only to find out the sick woman was a witch doctor. That night our families prayed for her salvation. The next day we gathered several men together to pray. There are several witch doctors here and they have put a lot of fear in local people to the extent that a few faith-filled men opted not to go pray for this woman and those who did go pray for her were quiet on the ride over to her house. It felt like we were going into battle. We prayed for the Lord’s strength and intervention, then Ivan, Lincoln, two other men and I went into the woman's house. Our plan was to offer her prayer and ask that she would rebuke all evil accepting the love and salvation Jesus Christ offered. We were nervous entering her house but strengthened and armored with the love of Christ as we approached her. The grace of God had already touched this woman when we arrived. One of the men asked her if we could pray with her and she agreed; she had decided that morning to meet with a priest to receive the sacraments of healing and reconciliation. She was sitting in a chair hunched over. I knelt down beside her and put my hand on her shoulder. She took my hand and put it to her face. We began praying intensely. Her head was unstable with her eyes rolling back in her head and she appeared to be breathing laboriously. She requested her oxygen and then as we continued praying she tried to stand up. We moved her oxygen to where she was able to stand up with it. Her family and the entire group became very emotional; every person in the room felt the immense power of God knowing that something very special and very powerful had taken place. She sat back down and we continued to pray. When we finished, we told her how much Jesus loved her and it was obvious she was feeling His love. Another family member asked if we could also pray over her. When we finished, the sick woman, D., thanked us for coming and asked that we come again. We were told by her family that she was off of oxygen and went to Mass the following weekend, Easter Sunday. We visited her again this past week and while she was using oxygen, her health appears much improved, and more importantly the love of Christ remains in her. Wow, God is great!

I was reminded by these encounters of 1 Corinthians 12: 12-26; we are all one body in Christ and each member is so important and necessary for the work of Jesus to be completed. Neither of these encounters would have taken place without the original invitation that the Holy Spirit prompted with Ivan and his family. The Lord gently encourages each of us with promptings to journey closer to HIM to live more fully in HIS will. I eagerly share this post to glorify God and to encourage us all to be more aware of His subtle promptings.

Thank you for your prayers and your support.

With much love - in HIM, with HIM, and through HIM,

jmn

April 2019 Newsletter

My Weakness and God’s Strength: Our first month and a half

I don’t like feeling weak. Actually, I hate it. I much prefer to depend solely on myself to do things exactly the way I want them done and exactly when I think they should be done. In some ways, I have a very strong personality. And that doesn’t leave a lot of room for me to hear what God is telling me or anyone else. Ironically, I think thats one of the reasons God has called me to have many children. Because pregnancy alone makes me feel weak. It also makes me feel full of new life in a way that compares to nothing else and results in the greatest blessing. But the awareness of my own weakness and dependence is ever present in my mind. It demands a humility in me to accept help that I wouldn’t otherwise need or want. It requires me to depend on my husband in a way that I otherwise do not. It is teaching me over time to learn this dependence does not have to be negative, that I can allow God to use this dependence to grow humility in me. Or I can resist it. I can become downtrodden and inward focused, self-despairing. No doubt, this is what the enemy wants…to allow my weakness to depress me. But God is giving me an invitation in this moment and in every other: to allow Him to transform me, to lean on Him when I’m weak, to ask Him to give me more grace in each moment, to allow Him to teach me how to accept help from others, to allow Him to teach me to be long-suffering and persevere in the difficult moments.

This has been a challenging month for me. I am learning more and more that I’m not a person who adapts to change easily or quickly. I like my routines. While I already knew this, this characteristic has become obnoxiously apparent in this season. Unfortunately, there have been many days when I have become self-despairing in the face of this weakness of mine. Mind you, I have gone through the motions of reading scripture and praying but my heart has frequently been set on self-pity. However, each time I choose to truly pour my heart out to God, to tell Him how I’m feeling, to allow Him to enter in, to ask Him to steady me and to be my strength; He does. The circumstances generally do not change, but my heart does. Of course, the whole time I know in my head the He is my strength but when my life is exactly as I think it should be and my routines are unfettered, it is easy for me to feel completely independent and that I don’t really need God to be my strength. It is in my weakness when I’m forced to acknowledge my need for Him that I give Him permission to be my all and feel in my heart that He is my strength. These moments and seasons that bring me to my knees also bring me the most freedom to realize that not only am I not in control, I don’t have to be in control and I don’t have to know everything. I simply have to turn to the One who made me, to relinquish my grip to Him, to allow Him to be my strength, to ask and listen to His voice, to turn to Him to guide me, and to obey Him.

Jaylyn praying in a chapel in one of the ranchos near General Cepeda

We arrived at our mission post in General Cepeda, Mexico the third week of January. The first item on our agenda was to settle in and find a place to live. While a mission house is present in General Cepeda, neither Jeremy nor I wanted to live there. We planned to stay there only until finding other housing. However, after looking at several other options in the town of General Cepeda and in the surrounding ranchos (villages), we didn’t feel called to live in any of these options and surprisingly were both feeling at peace in the mission house. Knowing we should not jump into ministry but allow God to guide us in His plan for us in General Cepeda, living in the mission house allowed us to meet many people who came to the front door there for help thanks to the established “door ministry” at the mission house. We had the opportunity to buy groceries for several women, to pay for medical bills for two people, and to provide work for a couple of women.This opportunity to “do” something to help others in this season of “settling in” was a great blessing to Jeremy and I. While communication with the people in need was difficult and slow due to our limited knowledge of Spanish, Google translate allowed us to communicate adequately. These opportunities also made glaringly obvious our need for language school.

Jeremy and the kids walking toward the boat dock to San Pedro

We decided to attend language school in San Pedro, Guatemala due to our ability to purchase flights and one-on-one Spanish classes for cheaper than we could pay for group classes in Mexico. After two weeks in General Cepeda, we left to begin studying Spanish intensively for four weeks. We are very much enjoying learning and studying Spanish and are excited to return to Mexico and to be able to more effectively communicate with the local people. It is beautiful in Guatemala and it has been an amazing experience to see a new place and culture; however, I will say I’m especially excited to return to Mexico as many of the inconveniences I saw as challenging about living in the mission house and in General Cepeda no longer seem so challenging or inconvenient after living in our choice of housing in San Pedro. We chose economical housing that appeared adequate but has proven challenging. However, I’m grateful that this has resulted in a change in my perspective on how I view the “inconveniences” in the mission house in General Cepeda.

In the park in front of the Catholic Church in San Pedro

I began typing this two weeks ago and I’m so glad I’m not in the spiritual and emotional place I was in then. I don’t want any part of trials and suffering. But, oh, how I want to know Jesus more. I want to feel more of Jesus’ love and be transformed more into the person He wants me to be: more loving, joyful, patient, kind and generous no matter what the circumstances are. So I pray, “Lead me, Lord. My life is in Your hands. I want to trust You more. I want to love You more. I want more of You in me. Help me to accept the trials that come. Help me to see Your face in everything. I want to be who You made me to be. I want to love others like You do-my family, my friends, the poor, and the forgotten. Please grow my love, Lord.” Even as I pray this, I’m nervous for the trials that will surely come but I am also excited for more of Jesus.

In front of one of the public buses in San Pedro

When I quit fighting my circumstances and choose to accept them, I allow God’s peace to fill me. When I choose to be present in each moment and yet keep my focus on Jesus’ face, I am able to receive His grace and can then see the good in each situation. Though roaches may fall through my lap when I go to the bathroom at night and as I continue to pick fleas off myself and my kids, I am still okay. Because I am His.

When I was in the U.S., this would have sounded horrific to me. God has definitely given me the grace to accept it right now. And truly I’m grateful to have just a little more understanding and empathy for the poor. We have plenty of good food, indoor running water, an indoor bathroom and shower, and a washing machine. We have the ability to buy household products to attempt to get rid of the bugs and protect ourselves from them. We have seen many women here washing their laundry and bathing themselves and their children in the lake. They work hard all day to attempt to put food in their families’ bellies; I’m certain the difficulties we have had here would be far from the top of their list of concerns.

Women washing their laundry in the lake in San Pedro

I praise God for a renewed zeal to share His love with those in need. There have been many opportunities to share His love in San Pedro, Guatemala this month, but we are eager to return to General Cepeda, Mexico this week to live into God's mission for us and His people there.

Thank you to each of you reading this for your support and prayers!

With love in Christ,

Lisa

Welcome 2019: Feeding the Sheep

As we welcome 2019 and close out 2018, it was nice to reflect on the goodness of God, life, friends, family, and the many encounters that have taken place over the last year. In the same moment of feeling blessed and overwhelmed with love and support from our families, our friends and our team of benefactors, I was reminded of how wounded, broken and lost I am without Christ as my focus and singleness of purpose.

We experienced a lot of joy this Advent with friends and family blessed by many wonderful conversations and visits. It was beautiful to witness the Holy Spirit moving in the lives of so many, praise you Jesus! Our faith continues to be enriched by our vibrant community of Christ-centered loved ones. Among the midst of many great moments, a few encounters contributed to added prayer with sleep disturbed nights, eventually prompting this post; I now better understand why Jesus recklessly leaves the 99 to find the 1.

In these few encounters, I recognized a few signs of fear, despair, anger and bitterness; all feelings that I have often felt when confused in my identity or misunderstanding God’s love. I reflected deeper on the plank in my own eye, evaluating the obstacles that hinder my understanding of God’s unconditional love, which can then minimize joy. 

I recalled the moments of my life when I think the most about myself, my desires, my goals and the lifestyle I want to live. This major plank revealed the narcissistic me god, showing my lack of trust in the God that created me. My self reliance and lack of trust in God’s plan ultimately stems from a fear of change, knowing that His living word and teachings can radically transform my life. Instead of surrendering to Jesus, the hope to change His teachings into my likings lingers on into a life lacking true joy, blocking HIS heart filling, warm, deep love.

Another obstacle that minimizes joy is the dominating thoughts of money, wealth, comfort, sport, career progression, prestige. None of these items are bad until they dominate my thoughts becoming false gods. These false gods then provide a quick high, with false identity of importance and success. The pleasure is always a short lived high that thirsts for more, faster, bigger, better fixes which eventually leaves me feeling empty. I create a lie that others will love me more if I become more worthy, more successful, more important, etc. My efforts and worldly desire to create success is really a distraction from the fervent seeking of HIS true unending, unconditional, no matter what love! Today the transformation of knowing and believing God the Father’s LOVE continues to progress from my head to my heart. Each encounter experienced through the Holy Spirit strengthens what is true and real in a more profound way.  At times, I find myself becoming self righteous which again blocks a joyful life, which leads back to a rut seeking to self medicate in a sea of stuff and busyness to numb the pain. Again, I surrender calling out to the Lord for help as He gently reaches out, takes my hand, healing my wounds with HIS compassionate, sincere love.

These life experiences of silent, hidden despair have increased my awareness of this subconscious death spiral. I realized others like me who are wounded and broken can also confuse pleasure for joy when desperately thirsting for the Father’s unconditional love. I asked the Lord how I can help heal others that are broken like me. The answer I heard was: “feed my sheep” (John 21:17), share my love. His answer as usual is simple, yet not easy.

In effort to “feed the sheep” (John 21:17), I offer my struggles with hope to bring light and awareness in case you or a loved one are in a spiral of despair. I confidently testify to the words Jesus spoke “take courage and fear not, I am with you” (Mark 6:50).  He awaits our consent to trust and accept His unconditional love. The more we pray and reflect on God’s love, the more it moves from knowledge in our head to what is true and real in our hearts, filling us with joy and peace. The joy and peace encourages us to wade deeper into His love, enabling us to give more of our love and our control to HIM. Each step helps remove the distractions of our sins, offering full communion with HIM and in HIM.  This progression transforms us as we fully realize and accept our true identity as unique, special, loved sons and daughters of God. We can love God because He first loved us(1 John 4:19). He loves us with our broken imperfections, in this exact moment exactly where we are!

In 2019, “proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord”: feed His sheep, sharing His love each day. “If we love one another God remains in us, and His love is brought to perfection in us” (1 John 4: 12). As Christians, we can be a safe person with a non-judgmental, empathetic, listening ear, nurturing real conversation. We can offer acceptance to the angry or confused, wounded person in front of us, loving and accepting who they are as a child of God. We can seek to empathize with their struggles and seek to find and affirm their great God-given gifts.

To a blessed 2019 in HIM with much LOVE!

Jeremy 

"It is more blessed to give than to receive” Acts 20:35

Our kind, gracious, loving Father in Heaven can never be outdone! We experienced this first hand as we spent the last three weeks in Mexico serving the poor and sharing the Gospel. We departed for our 18 hour drive into Mexico looking forward to opening up the flood gates, pouring out the love Jesus built up inside of us over the past few months. We were excited to experience a short-term foreign mission trip: loving, serving, and befriending our brothers and sisters in Mexico.

When we arrived to the small town tucked away in the beautiful desert mountains, it felt like we stepped back about 50 years in time: cobblestone paved roads, horses ridden down the street, life was at a much slower pace. We immediately felt at home and at peace. Our time in Mexico provided several opportunities for almsgiving and works of mercy with prayer encountering Jesus. We played soccer with the local kids, sharing His love with our first words of evangelization: "Dios le vendiga" and "Jesus te ama" (God bless you and Jesus loves you)! Simple yes, but the first seeds of God's love were sewn in youthful energetic young boys.

We also divided up into work project teams. Some put a roof on a home and others cleaned up a living area for an elderly man. Lisa, Jaylyn, and Simon joined a team that visited the elderly in their homes and the sick in a homeless shelter sharing the love and Jesus with them offered shared the love of Jesus with them and bringing them bags of staples (flour, sugar, coffee, etc.). Lincoln, Zane, and I helped provide material and labor for the luxury of an indoor toilet to one of the ladies (and her family) that cooked food for our intake group of 60+ people. It was so gratifying to see our team exude with joy as we provided this gift of a toilet room to a family with a two month old baby.

Digging the trench to plumb a bathroom

Outside of the service projects, we experienced a few impactful encounters that were life changing. Early in our trip, we met a hard working man with a young family similar to the ages of our four kiddos. We ate with the gentleman and shared commonalities in our broken Spanish. This man, at the time, had a very sick daughter that suffered from seizures. With tears in his eyes, the well built, hard working man dropped his head in shame as he asked for financial assistance (approximately $100 usd) and prayer for his daughter's medical needs. He was broken and ashamed to ask for help, but praise God, this was an easy task for our team of missionaries. One of the local missionaries stayed in contact with the man, and we kept him in our prayers. Another week went by before we saw him again. The gentleman lost his little girl, yet he came back to share his gratitude. He was grateful for our love and generosity. Although he had lost one of his children, he was at peace trusting the Lord. Confidence exuded through his pores as one of the missionaries shared a vision he had in prayer concerning his little angel. The thought of losing my little girl terrifies me, yet this takes place over 25,000 times a day in our world. Over 25,000 kids die everyday due to lack of food or medical attention needed. We are so eager to get into missions full-time to do all that we can to take part in Jesus' Great Commission serving the poor and sharing the Gospel. I am eternally grateful to the support team we have at home that will allow us to work full-time in missions!!! The heartbreaking encounter we had was difficult, yet this family knew Jesus and trusted in Him, with Him and through Him bringing hope, salvation, and eternal life! I mourn for the people and the families that do not know Jesus. Yet it energizes and invigorates me to zealously share His love and salvation with a world full of hurt, sickness, and brokenness; a world longing for an encounter with Jesus Christ our living God. 

Prayer and praise & worship at a chapel in one of the ranchos near General Cepeda

Another impactful encounter included incarnation of the Word during my morning prayer time in our last week in Mexico. The mission trip started to wrap up as we embraced our final week. I felt like we had been very generous with our time, our talent and our treasure. In my reflections, I felt like God was pleased with our yes to Him. While I still believe God was pleased with our daily yes, I feel He showed me just how to go deeper with Him as I so desire and ask of Him. The Lord spoke to me through the daily Gospel reading on Monday, Nov. 26th: Jesus said, "I tell you truly this poor widow put more in than all the rest; for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth but she from her poverty has offered her livelihood" (Luke 21:1-4). I shamefully admit I did not know what it was to give out of poverty. Most of my life, I have been very selfish and narcissistic. I thought when Christ called us into missions it would be an opportunity to give, to be life-giving, to share with others what Jesus has given to us. I thought it was time for me to stop receiving and to start giving. However, the sons and daughters of Jesus allowed His Word to become flesh one evening in a rancho allowing me to witness Jesus' unending, immeasurable love of generosity and giving out of poverty. The rancho we visited on Tues. night was a very poor village with little to no means to make a living. One of the local missionaries befriended many of the people in the rancho and taught them to make and to sell their crafts, while sharing the love of Jesus with them. We were invited to the rancho by the local missionary family to share testimonies and to join them in praise and worship music. When we arrived, a bell at the small chapel was rang loudly, signaling the missionaries' presence. Soon women and children were running and hustling to greet us with warm joyous smiles. They were elated with joy to pray, sing and worship the Lord. When they noticed the local missionary family had brought company, the villagers quickly gathered supplies to feed all of us (~20 people). The local villagers probably didn't have rations to feed themselves for the week, yet they gathered what they had to generously, joyously give to us all they had that evening! The local villagers helped me realize in my generosity, I give out of my surplus. These loving sons and daughters of God gave out of their poverty. They trust 100% in Jesus; they were filled with joy to share what they had with us as we praised and worshipped Jesus Christ together.


My heart is overwhelmed with joy and love for our family of supporters back home. We are so blessed and so grateful that they have made it possible as we journey together serving in His Great Commission! We hope you have been greatly blessed by the outpouring of God the Father's love! If the Lord is tugging on your heart to experience more of His love with a short-term mission trip, we excitedly welcome you, your family, your church, or your organization to Mexico; or we would love to provide information to you for mission trips to other locations that encounter Jesus serving the poor and sharing the Gospel.

May the peace, love and joy of Jesus Christ fill all the days of your life!

God will never be out given in generosity.

Jeremy

Our Mission Post Assignment: General Cepeda, Mexico

We are really excited to be returning to General Cepeda, Mexico to serve as full time missionaries beginning in late January.

Our family following a desert day (prayer time) at the end of our trip to Mexico

What is the need for missionaries in the General Cepeda, Mexico area?

Mexico has one of the highest priest to parishioner shortages in the world; one priest ministers to approximately 7,000 people and in General Cepeda we’ve been told its 1:12,000. There are more than 50 ranchos (villages) in the desert surrounding the small town of General Cepeda with very limited access to a priest, the sacraments, and Christian community.

While Mexico is historically and culturally catholic, the lack of access to sacraments and other issues have led to many falling away from the church and not practicing their faith. The need for a personal relationship with Jesus is real and urgent. The majority of those who are practicing their Catholic faith are women.

Additionally, there is a need for material resources. It gets cold in the winter in the General Cepeda area and homes and buildings are not heated except for those who can afford space heaters. Many people need blankets, coats, hats, gloves and warm socks to not only keep comfortably warm during the day but also to keep from literally freezing to death at night during the winter. Many people cannot afford medication when they or their family members become ill. There is great instability and lack of jobs paying enough for people to consistently feed their families.


Why are we excited to be going to serve in the General Cepeda, Mexico area?

Our mission is to serve the poor and share the Gospel; there is a great need for spiritual and material resources. While we are unworthy, we are still eager to allow the Holy Spirit to use us to feed people spiritually. Thanks to our many supporters, we are eager to share wealth from the US and give directly to meet the physical needs of the poor. The needs are honestly overwhelming and we hope to help people in a way that is sustainable rather than moment to moment. We will rely on the Holy Spirit to guide and inspire us and specifically ask for your ongoing prayers to support us in this.

One of the first tasks in a new mission post is to inculturate and embrace the customs of the culture you are in. General Cepeda is a country town with lots of people wearing boots and hats, and even riding horses down the streets. When we felt Jesus calling us into foreign missions, one of the hardest factors was letting go of our horses and imagining our kids not growing up around horses (this was such a large part of our life). In being assigned to General Cepeda, it feels like God gave that gift back to us. Our kids fit right in wearing their boots to walk around town, and we hope that Jeremy will be able to build rapport with the men by working with them in the fields and with the animals.

May God bless each of you and your families!

Peace in Christ,

Lisa

Week 7: Come Holy Spirit

Week 7: Come Holy Spirit
by Jeremy Nice

This week was all about life in the Spirit!  

Is Jesus enough? That is the question! 

The tabernacle and crucifix in the Chapel here at Big Woods Mission

Most of my Christian life, focused on a relationship with God the Father and Jesus Christ my savior, my brother. I have been reflecting on this relationship, asking is it enough to develop a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?  Some may say yes, others say no. 

This past week we were encouraged to reflect on the lives of the disciples as well as our own lives. This reflection and meditation on Jesus' eleven disciples, greatly impacted my decision. The disciples walked with Jesus nearly everyday for almost 3 years of His public ministry. I assume these men established a personal relationship with our Lord Jesus. However, when the passion and death of Jesus took place, most of the disciples were scared and in hiding. Then after 3 days, Jesus rose from the netherworld. He rebuked the eleven disciples, His close friends for their lack of belief and hardness of hearts (Mark 16:14). 

I empathized yet also wondered: why were they afraid, why did they not believe in Jesus and his teachings, why were they not willing to die with the only begotten Son of God? After all, I knew from Scripture and historical records that all but one of the original apostles boldly died a martyrs death. What changed, how did the disciples go from cowards to heroic martyrs? Was it stronger commitment, more discipline, greater obedience?

The end of each gospel specifically Luke and the book of Acts spoke to me with clarity. Luke 24:49-53, “And behold I am sending the promise of my Father upon you, but stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high." The preparation for the Christian Mission: "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses!” (Acts 1:8). This was the compelling event, the moment that changed, and emblazoned the apostles. The Apostles now boldly, joyfully shared the gospel, the kerygma with all creation, nothing deters them! The book of Acts enlightened and confirmed my own walk with the Lord and the Holy Trinity.

I reflect on my life and how the Word of God has transformed my life, sending His knowledge from my head to love in my heart becoming my Lord.  I recall moments in my own life, I have been too afraid to boldly share the love of Christ with others. However, the Lord has been so faithful and gentle with me and my family. His merciful, patient love slowly, consistently asks me to surrender more of my life to Him everyday. Each time I feel like I have fully surrendered to Him, He provides another more radical request, empowering me to again surrender and trust more fully in HIM. Each step taken to surrender, dying to the flesh, enables more life in the Spirit, building more confidence in Him to provide our radical, yes powered by the Holy Spirit!  Come Holy Spirit, fill us with the infinite, unexplainable, unfathomable, unending love of God!

Come Holy Spirit beloved of my soul, I adore You. Enlighten me, strengthen me, console me, give me Your orders, tell me what I should do. I promise to submit myself to all that You desire of me and accept all that You permit to happen to me. Let me only know Your will.

Love you ALL in Him, through Him, with Him!

jmn