Be My Treasure

So, spring break gives me a lot of time to write and pray... YAYYYYY!!! Here's a poem/prayer I wrote in adoration today!

Be my treasure, O Lord

Satisfy my heart

Satisfy my needs

Give me grace to live

In the fullness of Your Divinity

Be my treasure, O Lord

May my heart find rest in Thee

May my heart find joy in Thee

Give me grace to live

In the fullness of Your Divinity

Be my treasure, O Lord

Reign in my heart

Reign in my life

Give me the grace to live

In the fullness of Your Divinity

Be my treasure, O Lord

As I thirst for you

As I long for you

Give me the grace to live

In the fullness of Your Divinity

Be my treasure, O Lord

My life is not my own

My life is Yours alone

Give me grace to live

In the fullness of Your Divinity

Monday Memo

"Keep your heart very wide to receive in it
all sorts of crosses and resignations or abnegations, 
for the love of Him who has received so many of them for us." 
St. Francis de Sales


This isn't from my normal Monday source, however I thought it was fitting for Lent, the time of suffering. 


Brothers and sisters, in this time when we recall the suffering of Christ may our hearts be open to the suffering Christ has for us, that we may suffer for love of him, and unite all to the cross of Christ, as a means of our own salvation and the salvation of others. 


God bless!

Follow Me

In yesterday's homily the priest said "The greatest invitation ever given was when Christ reached out his hand and said follow me"

This struck me in a profound way. 

We always get excited when we're invited to go to a dinner, see a movie with a friend, go to a fancy event, BUT the invitation Jesus gives us is far greater than any invitation for something in this world. Each day the Lord reaches his hand out to us and invites us to follow him that day. Today, when I woke up the Lord reached out His hand to me and said: "follow me". I didn't hear Him say this directly, he didn't come down on a cloud - but in his quiet way he invited me to follow him this day, to seek his will this day. 

Brothers and sisters, the Lord invites each of us, each day to follow him, to seek his will. He desires an intimate relationship with each one of us. He is our Lord and He loves us, he desires us to be close to Him and constantly draws us closer to himself. May we always seek to follow the Lord and accept his invitation each day - follow me. 

He Provides

She questions

Gazing upon the starry sky, she wonders

So comfortable, content with life

Her heart seems to desire one thing:

To love

And

To be loved

She searches for answers

In things of this world

This boy

That boy

And another

Running, eating, writing

None of it satisfies

She learns: He provides

She slowly lays down her life

To love the Lord

And to be love by him

He provides the love she needs to thrive. 

Lifted From the Dead

Lifted from the dead

She remembers where she came from

She recalls:

Sleepless nights, tears unending

Their hopes and dreams

The letters. The bear.

The chocolate. The necklace

The hugs.

How wonderful it all was.

She recalls:

The day her world flipped

Her life-blood…Gone.

Dead inside,

She doesn’t know how to go on.

She thought:

Never shall I love again

Lo and behold

Here she stands,

Love again

Raised from the dead

A love far greater than before lifted her up

The Lord: King and conqueror led her

He raised her up

He brought her life

He showed her love

Monday Memo

"I am not sorry for having surrendered myself to Love. O my God, You have surpassed all my expectations. Abandonment alone guides me. I have no other compass." -St. Therese of Lisieux

The more we seek God, the more we can empty ourselves of our will, in order to be more fully satisfied by Christ's love for us. He empties us of ourselves and of this world so that we may be filled to overflowing. How great is our God, who's love endures forever, who's mercy is endless, who satisfies us beyond all we could ever imagine, may he be our only guidance.

Sunday Word

The Lord is so good. He has abundantly blessed each of us. Today, I realized how abundantly He has blessed and am so thankful. You see, I am the only practicing Catholic & strong Christian in my family. Often times this is quite challenging, but I realized something today. Because I don't have my parents to aspire to, I learned to lean more on the Lord. I learned to look to God as my Father, and Mary as my mother, that they may guide me. I know I can turn to them in all things. Therefore, one could say I have been blessed with a child-like faith. Ironically enough, St. Therese happened to have chosen me around the time of my baptism. St. Therese is known for her child-like faith and her "little way". May we model St. Therese's child-like faith & little way, seeking the Lord as our leader all the days of our lives!


And now a little encouragement for the fight of faith this week:


Do not grow slack in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, endure in affliction, persevere in prayer. Romans 12:11-12