Carrying of the Cross that they will
be patient in their trials and sufferings,
and The Crucifixion that it will not be
in vain for anyone in my family.
The Glorious Mysteries:
The Resurrection I offer for you for the faith you need
and for true sorrow for your sins.
The Ascension I offer for my grandchildren
for the graces, helps and protection and faith that each one needs.
The Descent of the Holy Spirit I offer for my Godchildren
for the love and charity, the faith and protection
and graces that each one needs.
The Assumption I offer for my brothers and sister
and their families and for my relatives and In-Laws
for the faith and help that each one needs.
The Coronation I offer for our Parish,
for the faith, love and protection that each one of us needs.
We had a real cold night. It was 28 degrees this morning.
Looks like we’re going to have an early and cold winter.
I really enjoyed your visit and hope you can come more often.
Bette Jo and Bob are moving to Hagerman in November.
It will be nice to have them close.
Tell Josje “Hello.” I’m glad he is taking some
more courses in college.
Love and Prayers
your mother
Mother identified with the sorrow of her mother whose mother
died when she was but eight and with the sorrow of her father
whose mother died when he was but five and she identified with
their identification with each other for shamans often do lose
a parent when they are children and thereby learn of the spirit world.
From her mother, mother learned to pray the Our Father and
from her father’s Mormon community mother learned that
our Heavenly Father loves us and is with us especially in sorrow.
Then from her husband who lost his father when he was but five
mother learned how to pray the Hail Mary and the Angel of God.
Mother grew as her prayer took her into the five dimensional universe.
Mother lived most closely throughout her whole life with three
prodigal sons for her father was a prodigal son, her husband
was a prodigal son, and her own first son was a prodigal son.
And yet unlike the elder brother she never for a moment needed
to reconcile with them for each of them knew how she loved them
and from her they even knew how God would always love them.
For surely God’s love would have to be as affirmative as was hers.
Her father dear became the town drunk and began squandering
the family fortune so that her mother had to divorce him even
though she proudly loved him and her father sobbed when he saw
his wonderful daughter, Sissy, and even though he could not change
and died in an insane asylum he always knew how loved he was.
Her husband dear who was a proud and gifted gambler was shot
in the ankle when hunting and became an alcoholic garbage man.
But with her help he knew that he was cleaning up the town
and unlike so many punk-kid adults he kept the faith,
put all his children through college and with her constant love
eventually quit smoking and drinking and was shamanic right
to the end as he taught his children how to love their mother
just as she taught them to love him forever more and more.
Her first son became the worst sinner of all for he was both
an habitual adulterer and an hypocrite who professed to be
religious and yet hurt his wives and children more than did
her father or her husband who never broke the commandments
but drank, perhaps, to fill the void of their dead lost parents.
But her son who had the best of educations and even prayed
with the various women he loved forced his wives to leave him.
And their children suffered so much to see their mothers so hurt
and to be separated from their father for living ghosts can be
harder to live with than dead ones who do not haunt you so.
Her first son knew his mother’s love who saw all so clearly
and it let him feel like King David after whom she named him.
Mother’s four noble truths
I Mother as a person in relation suffered the sorrows
of those with whom she was most closely bonded
II and her greatest sorrow of all was losing her loved ones
for love wants to be present with those whom we love.
III But mother’s Rosary and Mass taught her that Christmas
can be every day especially on Good Friday because of Easter Sunday.
IV And this became real for mother as she journeyed
on the nine-fold path of her life with
(1) her Anglican mother from whom she learned of
