Hope

I know it's been so long since I've blogged.  It's been so crazy hectic here lately, but my priorities have definitely changed.  Christmas was great, but I am still on the med after getting really sick the day after Christmas. 

As for priorities, I'm not online that much anymore.  I spend more time in prayer, and I try to go to mass daily if I can.  By strengthening my faith and putting God first, good things are happening.

A dear friend of mine and I get together every Friday to pray the rosary together.  It was great, but I found myself needing to pray more!  So I would pray my rosary every day.  Then Anna had a family gathering for CCD about 3 weeks ago.  We made rosaries.  It was that night, we turned out all the lights (except for the room we were in), turned off the tv and computers and prayed the rosary together as a family!  We pray everynight together.  It's been an amazing experience!

By getting closer to Mary, I'm getting closer to Jesus, therefore getting closer to my Heavenly Father.  I ask her to help me be a better wife and mother.  I ask her to help me get through my daily tasks, with a happy heart.  But now that we are praying together as a family, there is more peace in my home.  Of course, during prayer time, Satan is trying to ruin things, to get me to give it all up.  It will not happen.  The kids love to lead our prayers and they argue over who will lead, who will pray this prayer or that prayer.  Makes me smile.

Our Lady is leading my family to holiness.  During a sermon a couple of weeks ago, Fr Paul asked the congregation, "If you were on the stand being convicted of being a Christian, would you be convicted?"  Really makes you think.  It's what we do in private that matters.  I'm as involved as I can be in my church, it's in the home wherein the struggle lies.  But praying as a family is helping with that.

I was getting worried about our future, our spiritual future as a family.  I'm doing all I can individually, but it didn't seem as though it was enough.  I prayed and prayed, but realized there would be more power to my prayers if we were all together praying!  "Where two or more gather in my name, I am there amongst them." 

Anyway, there is hope for the future, for me, for my family.  For that, I thank Mary, my mother.  I know people who give Mary no second thought, because there is not much written about her in the bible, but I believe Jesus is God, therefore she is the Mother of God...mighty important in my book!