…and sometimes unwanted.
I am saying a novena for Joseph Stanton (the young man who suffered a traumatic brain injury in June). His mother sent me this Novena to Mary, Mother Thrice Admirable, Queen and Victress of Schoenstatt. I’m only on day two but besides making sure I offer up the prayers for a complete and total healing of Joseph it really sets in motion the inner reflection of my call (in regards to Mary’s ‘call’). Today it prods you to think about “What is YOUR answer to the sorrow you bear, what reply do YOU make to the message of the Father?…How can I? You might say, answer ‘yes’ to injustice, loss of honor, my home, my possession? Can any man give his consent when death robs him of his dearest one in life, when sickness tortures him and his very existence rocks under his feet?”
The ‘exercise’ for today was to: “Say a willing YES to every unforeseen event that surprises you.”
I truly prayed about this today, while meditating upon Terri’s ‘yes’ to taking care of her son 24/7 who is not playing football as he should be right now, instead she is celebrating the victory of how long he stayed off the ‘trech tube’. I was very willing to say ‘yes’ today to anything but it is hard.
Neal was told yesterday he has ‘precancerous cells’ in his cheeks. He has been dipping copenhagen since he was 17 and though he has tried to quit at least 4 times in the past 3 years…he has officially said ‘this is it!’. I’m rejoicing (and praying this truly sticks and that the ‘precancerous cells sluff off and nothing comes of it’ BUT along with him going cold turkey comes this man that rubs me wrong in all ways! He is so irritable. It is so hard to keep my mouth shut and try to stick to this ‘yes’…I want to give him a good piece of my mind! 😉
But I’ll obey (the yes)…as for Neal let’s just say mums the word.
Blessings!
Shannon