Happy birthday Heribert.

 Heribert was born on this day in 970 in a placed called Worms. He built a monastery in Deutz and is said to have stopped a drought. He is thus the Patron saint of rain. He was honoured as a saint in his lifetime and was officially canonized in 1075 by Pope Gregory VII

Today God talks of creating a new heaven and new earth in which dying at the age of 100 will be considered too young. Isaiah 65:17

Jesus heads back to Galilee from Some Area (Samaria). He must have been feeling a bit down because he says there is no respect for a prophet in his own town; but they actually are pleased to see him. An official has a sick son in Caper no on (Capernaum) which is just a hop and a skip from Nazareth where he grew up. The official asks Jesus to cure his very sick son. Jesus moans that every body wants a miracle. The man says to get a move on and visit before his child dies. Jesus doesn't bother going with him and just says that his son will live. The man is real pleased when he gets home and finds his son better. He was cured at the very moment Jesus said that he will live. So the man and his family believed in Jesus after that.

God knows the big picture of our lives. Lets put our faith in Him.

I'm predicting that my supervisor will be sick today and I will have to do some of her work. 

Looking forward to catching up with TC after work. K says that he is keen to start playing some golf too. So I'll have a couple of golfing mates.

Better get ready for work. 

Have fun boys but don't sin.

The Lord's Day

 Fill your horn with oil and go...1 Sam 16...I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem for I have chosen myself a king from his sons. Jesse presented his seven sons but God rejected them all. Then he remembered little David who was out with the sheep and rest is legend.

In the Gospel a man is born blind so that the works of God may be revealed in him. RBB might say that God has been unfair. So it goes.

I had a nice day in the Manawatu yesterday. After adoration and Mass at St Brigids in Feilding we drove to the Plaza in Palmy for  morning tea /coffee and eats. I still needed a putter to complete my golf set so we searched the op shops. We bought a significant amount of clothing and stuff including sherry glasses but their golfing stuff was few and far between, apart from a pair of hand grips I got for $4, you have to grip the club firmly and it chaffs the hands after a while. After going back to my darling's house for coffee, she had to work at 3pm, we agreed I should try the big one on the main drag as you enter Levin from the south. Sure enough they had a lot of irons and after a careful search I found a putter. 

Getting home I unpacked the car and went to 5.30 Mass at Te Awaikarangi in the Hutt. Afterwards I opened a bottle of Mission Pinot Noir   Gris and practised the Cello. That was a bit naughty but it had been a big day.

I'm going to 9am Mass again at the same church. They often need me to help with the collection of the offertory and shop on this day. I'm on duty next week but the Ms don't seem to turn up for their slot so C always calls me out as I walk in. M normally helps me. The seating is devided into seven segments, including the choir, and its too slow for one person to set all the baskets up for passing around.

I think I saw somewhere that TC would like a round tomorrow after work. I'll send him an email.

Have fun boys but don't sin. (I went to confession Friday evening. he hE HE).

A putter

 Success. On the way home from visiting my darling I detoured to Levin and found a putter in the hospice shop. 

Mach 14

 What I want is love not sacrifice. Hosea 5:15

He spoke this parable to some people who prided themselves on being virtuous.

A catholic cleaner went to church and as he sat in the second pew from the front on the side looking at the others he thought: I thank you Lord that I am not grasping, unjust and adulterous gossipers like these others. And particularly that I am not like that lawyer. I don't eat meat on a Friday and pay tithes on all I earn.

Meanwhile the lawyer sitting down the rear seat with his eyes down, beat his breast saying "forgive me Lord I am a sinner".

The lawyer went home at righs with God! Anyone who exalts himself will be humbled and vice versa. Luke 18:9.

I went to the driving range again yesterday. They have a clever screen behind your station that shows the shots you take.  

 I'm still struggling to connect with the driver. But boy oh boy that ball travels when I do, which was only once. I watched a video that said to not worry about fluffing up. The important thing is a full flowing swing. Accuracy will come eventually.

I've arranged to meet up with my darling this morning. We will go to Mass and play it from there. She is happy I am taking up golf again but isn't interested in playing the game herself. 

I was playing chess with an American yesterday and we started to chat. I asked him what he thought of Trump. He said he was from Ohio and thought Trump was OK having seen him on some videos! He said the war with Iran was a 'bummer'. He asked me where I was from and who our PM is. I said the capital but couldn't remember his name! Don't worry it came to me later...Muldoon.

Later I watched an 'expert' on The Trump Report on Youtube say that the current President is mental and that he hasn't listened to his advisors. The expert was very skeptical of a good outcome in Iran. He pointed out that the million strong Iranian army isn't in any one place. They are at home having dinner with their families and Trump can't bomb residential areas. He said that all they have to do is infiltrate their oil producing neighbours and destroy the refineries and the world will be thrown into economic turmoil. It's happening already with petrol up 40 cents a litre.

Have fun and get along to confession if you sin.

PS...I ran out of time and lost the chess game.

Friday 13th

 For the ways of the Lord are straight and virtuous men walk in them; but sinners stumble. Hosea 14:10

You are not far from the kingdom of God. Mark 12:34

The more astute of you have noticed no quotation marks. The practice of using quotation marks for anything in the Bible has fullen out of fashion. Also it's likely that the writers of the Gospels didn't quote Jesus exactly. How could they? Mark, who wrote the first Gospel, did so early in the fifties. That's twenty years after Christ died and rose again. So it goes.

I went to the Salvation Army shop after work and bought a set of golf clubs they luckily (divine providence?) had down the rear for $30. It just lacks a putter, I figure for that price I can justify buying a putter brand new, though I'll check the other op shops first!.I carried them into the Golf warehouse and asked for 50 balls on the driving change. The chap behind the counter said "nice bag". I said "thanks". The 'driver' looks nice too but I had a lot of trouble connecting, balls whizzing off at all angles. Just as well there are barriers between the stations. I've always had more success using the 3 iron to tee off, and that was still true. I watched a video later on YouTube and got some ideas about what I might be doing wrong. It's good that TC says he has plenty of balls; though I did buy a dozen!

Have fun and work on that slice (it'll be the way you are standing).

Mach 12

 The week has gone fast. The earth must have past an intense gravity field. 

In Jer 7:23 God bemoans what an ungrateful lot of sods the Israelites are.

In Luke 11 14-23 Jesus bemoans being accused of being called beezlebul by more of those ungrateful sods.

We really are an ungrateful lot!

I worked 12 hours yesterday then went to the driving range. No I wasn't driving out demons like Jesus. I hired fifty balls and a few clubs and wacked them out into a field. It only cost about 20 bucks. I'm going to do this every afternoon to get my game up. Unfortunately I got rid of all my clubs and balls a few months ago after storing them for years. I'll look around the op shops for more; I might even buy a couple of essential ones like a good driver and putter.

Have fun and work on that swing.

Mach 11

 What great nation has its God's so near as our God is to us Deut 4:1

Not one dot or stroke of the law shall disappear until its purpose is complete. Mat 5:17. The man who infringes the least law and teaches it will be considered the least in heaven.

Jesus added love to the laws.

Love, love, love. 

LOVE. 

Love, love love.

Love seeks its object.

Love is patient not boastful.

♥Have fun. love 💕and get along to confession.