not online, but still on my mid.

So my ideas seem to have been much greater than my time. However, I am still focused and determined to write a prayer and find something I am thankful for each and every day. I mean it is so easy!

Here is a prayer I wrote this weekend. I had to deal with and process some crazy things. I actually wrote this prayer for a friend and shared it with her.

Mother Mary, please be my guide. Pray for me so that I may live the best way that i know with what i have been given. Thank you for being my mother in heaven, and for your comfort here on earth. Please pray for me each day, so that with your love and care i will know and understand love in others. Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of death. Amen. Mother Mary, bless me today and everyday.

Clearly the Hail Mary is in there...but it is like one of my favorite prayers. I pray it every day.

I wrote that prayer on Saturday night.

Thursday night I went out with a group of friends. It was really fun, we went and saw a movie and then went to Steak n' Shake...gotta love a girls night.

Lord, thank you for positive female relationships in my life. Thank you for enriching my friendships with love, trust, and honesty. Please be with my friends and help guide there decision making. Amen

Last night I went to youth group...something that I do every Sunday night that I can. We talked about the garden and the desert, and how you need desert moments [i.e. lent] in order to truley be greatful and appreciate the garden [i.e. ordinary church time] times. I think that is so true. We need bad, or not so fun, times in our lives in order to really appreciate the good things in our lives

Lord, everything that we have in this life is from You. Please help me to remember that in my joy and in my sorrow, You never leave. Please help me to remember to praise You in the good as ask in the bad. In Your love, let me live.