All Saints Day

Today is "All Saints Day" 

I could tell you many things about the saints, but I won't considering that I am still learning about them myself.

First of all let me tell you a story

One day a priest asked a bunch of people a question

Who wants to go to Heaven?

almost all the hands in the room went up.

then he asked another question.

Who wants to be a saint?

most of the hands went down.

the priest replied "well then you all don't want to go to heaven" a bunch of puzzled faces looked at him he responded with "if you go to heaven then you are a Saint."
 
Our life long goal should be to go to heaven and be a saint. mine is.

One Long Litany of Saints

We went to mass today at "ICC" to fulfill our holy day of obligation. Fr.Richard started out his homily by jokingly saying he was going to list all the names of the saints, everyone laughed.

On the way home someone mentioned what if he really did that? He would be there forever. What if everyone left? Would he give out a prize if you sat through all the names of the saints? As we laughed at his little joke,  We started naming off all the names of the saints we could remember. It has been over two and a half hours and we are still naming them of. My mother mentioned that was one long "Litany of Saints."     

Until next time this is Mylea Janis Teresa saiyng God Bless, Be Joyful and don't forget to Pray!

Reflecting On October

October has been some month indeed. it started out in a way rocky and came to the middle with a awesome birthday and has been ending in a good way.

It also came to be a month of great strides. One's that were good, conquering fears and just feeling plain me, something I can get used to. I am forming deeper relationships with people near and dear to me. Overcame some conflicts and changed my view of men for the better. I was actually caught laughing for no apparent reason. No wonder they call laughter a Joyful noise. Sometimes I just can't contain myself with such good things. 

 I wouldn't say that I am a new and resurrected Mylea but just maybe coming out of my tall lair and letting everyone know that I have a budding personality that was just tucked away for years. I think my parents might just fear me becoming a social butterfly. Just wait I 'm not done yet the best is yet to come!

Until Next time this is Mylea Janis Teresa saying God bless, be Joyful and don't forget to Pray! 

Loreto House is Under Attack!

 This just came in My dad is a director at Loret House in Denton and got this e-mail
Click Here to find out why Loreto House is Under Attack

Until Next time this is Mylea Janis Teresa saying God bless, be Joyful and don't forget to Pray!

Picture from the Past: Mylea in the Newspaper

I was looking through some old pictures and came across this a photo of me, when I was twelve years old.

The Story behind the Picture

My parents were very involved in the pro-life ministry at this time. We just happened to have gone to an anti abortion rally. As you can tell in the picture, I am wearing a band-aid on my chin. I had burned myself with a pepperoni slice from pizza the week before. Of all times to get my picture in the newspaper, it was with a band-aid. Of course that is usually is how it happeneds. I am also wearing glasses I wore glasses off and on from the age of eight to thirteen.

Still Strong in my Beliefs

That was 4 years ago but I think I am much stronger in my beliefs now than ever.

Until next time this is Mylea Janis teresa saying God bless, be Joyful and don't forget to Pray!

Rediscovering a Lost Gift

Around two weeks ago, I rediscovered a gift that was lost. One I was given before I was born, I just have not used it much in the past few years. What is that gift? The gift of a “Smile” one I use quite often now.

What does a Smile Contain?

I read in a book not to long ago that it said a smile is a powerful encouragement to anyone. It can lift weary spirits and warm broken Hearts it also says “you’re important; You’re special” and I think we can all agree that it’s more blessed to give than to receive (Acts 20:35)  in this case a “Smile.”

Someone helped me find that Smile.

One person helped me find that gift again. They live in my house; I have known them for most of my life. That one person is my little sister Margery she is smiling most of the time if not she is engulfed in something. She always meets someone with a smile. In addition, she helped me rediscover mine.

Margery, know that your big sister Mylea loves you.

She thanks you for helping her find the gift of a smile again.

Keep smiling, I know I will!

Until next time this is Mylea Janis Teresa saying, God bless, be Joyful, and don’t forget to Pray!  

 

Oh, how I Worry!

Yes, I am guilty of worrying too much, something that happens too often, like this past Saturday. I went into a state of having a panic attack, I haven't had one like that in months! Now I will admit that I am getting better. I was looking through some inspirational quotes of mine, which I compiled during some spiritual reading. Since I am working on trying to not worry so much, I found this...

In all matters we must stop looking for reasons why they happened; if our understanding cannot grasp them, why should we try to perplex it? It suffices us to know that he who brings this to pass is all-powerful, and as it is God who does it and we, however hard we work, are quite incapable of achieving it, let us not try to become capable of understanding it either - St. Teresa of Avila's "Interior Castle"

It might just help, Thanks St.Teresa!

Until next time this is Mylea Janis Teresa saying God bless, Be Joyful and don't forget to Pray!
   

Veronica's 9th Birthday

I apologize for this being a day late enjoy!

Sunday was Veronica’s 9^th birthday and to believe she is almost a decade old.

A little over a week before her birthday, our neighbor Karen told us about the Frank Buck Zoo in Gainesville. Veronica had said she wanted to go to Lake Ray Roberts and have a picnic something she has wanted to do for years. She had even mentioned she would rather go to the zoo instead of the lake so we decided to surprise her and go to the zoo. Both of my parents had felt that Veronica would be disappointed if we did not go to the Lake so they decided to tell her about the zoo, she was excited indeed. I personally think she would have done fine if she were surprised in a moments notice.

Therefore, she woke up on her birthday, ate French toast for breakfast opened up her presents, and got ready to go. Mommy was not feeling good so she stayed home. When we arrived, we bought our way in and started our way through. It was a nice little zoo with a variety of animals. 

If veronica had to choose, an animal she enjoyed looking at it would be the prairie dogs her response to them “they were so adorable.” We finished up and ate a little snack. They had a train you could ride; Veronica took her picture with the conductor.

 

We went through the exhibits again. This time Veronica was able to feed the goats.

Towards the end, something funny happened that I could not pass up to tell. We were looking at some dears, when daddy was looking at them and started to run back and forth making noises. We asked him why he was doing that he said he wanted the dear to run along side with him. Moreover, what was the dear doing? Looking at daddy probably thinking he was crazy.

We went back to the beginning of the trail and stood in front of this statue to get our picture taken as a group. Daddy was trying to find a timer on the camera so he could be in the picture too. When all of a sudden a woman with hair colored hot pink offered to take the picture for us. No, she was not part of one of the exhibits to look at, but she did take a nice picture of the four of us.

After the zoo, we went and got dinner at Golden Chick and veronica got an ice cream cone. We came home and told mommy about our day. As I was finishing this blog post, I asked veronica how she would like to wrap up her birthday. She told me playing with her presents would be nice.

Happy 9^th Birthday Veronica! Your Big sister Mylea loves you.

Until next time this is Mylea Janis Teresa saying God bless, Be Joyful and don’t forget to Pray!