A parishioner recently shared with me this beautiful prayer which I share with you:
HARVEST PRAYER
Please be gentle with yourself and others.
We are all children of the Creator, and none can say why some fields blossom while others lay brown beneath the harvest sun.
Take hope that your season will come.
Share the joy of those whose season is at hand.
Care for those around you.
Look past our differences.
Their dreams are no less that yours, their choices in life no more easily made.
And give.
Give in any way you can.
Give in every way you can.
Give whatever you possess.
Give from your heart.
To give is to love.
To withhold is to wither.
Care less for the size of your harvest that for how it is shared,
and your life will have meaning.
And your heart will have peace.
- Anonymous 17th Century Sermon
Thought for the week: By not allowing anger to get the best of you, you can channel it into solving the problem.
Smile for the week: Student to teacher when asked for homework: “A robber came and said, ‘Your homework or your life!” I gave him my homework.
God bless! Have a wonderful week!
Fr. Kevin McKenna