At the hospital today for a treatment after my two weeks off. I don’t know if off is really the right word as it is more like work. Fun side effects to sort out and figure out how to minimize and work into a functional life. Anyway, enough of that. But the whole fascinating medical lashup buys me time, time to be with you.
So with all this time let’s get on with it. So, I said the rosary on the ferry this morning for the trip is about fifteen minutes. It’s not an ideal place but it is a place. So, I was praying for two specific people that I was asked to do. Normally or most of the time I am praying for the rock pile at Phil’s Camino which holds about three thousand stones, representing three thousand cares, wishes and thank yous some of them mine. But today I was trying to concentrate on these two specific individuals and to tell you the truth I wasn’t doing that great a job at it. But somewhere along the line it occurred to me that maybe if I was just clear and undistracted for one tenth of a second in there’s somewhere that was all it really needed.
God is close by and He can pay attention to all of us at once I’m thinking. Everything that I got can be transmitted by me in an instant so I picked one tenth of a second as a working number. Why not? Most of prayer is for me really, to change me. I hear God already knows my thoughts anyway, right?
So I am practicing one tenth of a second prayer. Just the shortest instant that a conscious thought can be. Kind of a zap. This is on my mind today.
Just saw Nugget(beloved Dr Gold) and I impressed him with my hand drawn two color graph of the happenings of the last two weeks. Well, I was trying to make up for the time before when my info that I was supposed to report was unorganized. But this time I had visual aids!
OK, that’s enough for today. Hope you all are doing well. Looking forward to Super Bowl. Alperfect, love, Felipe.
PS – Tonight is the night that St Brigid will be afoot. We put out a handkerchief or bandana spread out on a bush outside til morning and that dew that is collected is from her, a healing liquid.
I’m going to put out those hankies! Last night the moon was a perfect, luminous Eucharistic host.
Your thoughts reminded me of a nun I know, a spiritual director. When I told her of an instance of prayer she’d exclaim loudly “you got zapped!” Here’s to many more moments of zappedness you can string like pearls on a necklace.
Jessika ~ while you are out gazing at the super moon you can put out your swatch of fabric. I am shooting little pearl prayers all over the place. Look out, duck! Felipe.x
Phil, did you know St. Bridget (aka, Bride) was buried in the same grave as Sts. Patrick and Columba? Someday I’m going to walk a pilgrimage across Ireland! Take care, Jim
Jim ~ welcome to Comments. Did it seem like you signed up for email delivery? OK, so who is Columba? Yes, a pilgrimage in Ireland would be interesting. Felipe.
Nice, Phil.
Saw the eclipsed Moon this morning and the Blood Moon and the Blue Moon– all at once. Very clear sky here.
Tenth of a second. Now THAT is a new thought for me. Something to chew on all day. Thanks for that, too.
My digi calendar — I can’t figure out how to turn it off– sent me an alert that today is Imbolc. So, I looked it up. Wow– the Brigid traditions go back to as far back as like 200 CE/AD. Maybe earlier. Wiki even tells about the food for the day. Anyway- thanks for that reference,too– all new to me!
Wish I was there with you at our sometimes-meeting place at Swedish. And not for the gummy bears, honest!
Plus, I’d love to see your graph drawing– you are so good in the
“Gotta get this organized” dept and the Arteest dept. Always delightful on both counts.
I’ll be up maybe next weekend and into the next week after that– and VI /RR is on the Must Do list.
Let’s hope the side effects settle into something predictable and tolerable asap.
Love ya, Buddy.
Steve-O ~ good-O to hear from you so much these days. Looking forward to hanging with you at some point soon. Hello to the gang. Felipe of the North.
Columba is another Irish Saint — Google him, Phil!
Jim ~ OK, got the scoop. Found an image with him and the Loch Ness monster, pretty cool. Thanks, Felipe.
I went to the Isle of Iona Scotland to check Columba out. A wise Saint.
Jessika ~ we will have to do some work on him. Looking forward to Saturday and our meeting. Felipe.x
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