Terza Domenica del Tempo Ordinario....

we are following the same calendar as the church
The Third Sunday of Ordinary Time...
stiamo seguendo lo stesso calendario della chiesa....
tempo ordinario....
Terza Domenica del Tempo Ordinario....

how easy...how convenient it will it be to remember ...to mark
how long we have been here

this is the third Sunday of Ordinary time
and we are also beginning our third week

my desk
pussy willow from this morning....

and this is a little excerpt from this morning's morning prayer
that always makes me feel the delight of the Lord...on His day...

"With all the splendor... of heavenly worship...
  You still delight .....in such tokens of love....as earth can offer...."

I get that...
even though I am an earthling
a creature
I love the little 'tokens' around me...
I think of all my little altars everywhere back at home...
my shells and rocks and pebbles and feathers
and the boxes of found and created things from my very own delightful children...
things from when they were young...
and even now...things they leave behind that cause me to think of them...

frank's dresser....

the saved
the valued 'tokens'

I have nothing to offer
all that is...
even my very self
...all that is in me
is of His creation...

and yet He delights in my little token of love?!?!

"May heaven...and earth together...acclaim You as king
 May the praise that is sung in heaven....
...resound in the heart of every creature on earth."  

may the praise of heaven fill my heart till overflowing with His holy perfect love

"make my love Your love
  let me love like You"
                      amen