NEW BEGINNINGS & EMBRACING 2016

Happy New Year, indeed!

I am just so excited for 2016.  I went through a roller coaster ride of emotions for 2015 as this was a year of transition for me.  But now I am looking forward to 2016 full of hope that it will be a year of personal breakthrough and a year of family bonding through travel and adventures.

When I attended the Jan 1 mass, I am glad that the verse is still the same as the previous new year's mass.  And yes, I am still holding to this prayer from Numbers 6:24-36.  And I still pray fervently to be able to fill my mind with good and noble thoughts.  My struggle is that my mind is prone to negative and destructive imaginations that it makes me so restless,.. and consequently affects my loved ones.  

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Dear Lord Jesus and Holy Spirit, I lift to You my thoughts and my feelings.  Take over my mind and my heart that it may focus only to You and Your will.  I cannot win this battle of mind alone.  Let nobody and nothing have power over my mind and my heart.  Protect me from my own negative thoughts that fill me with nothing but anxiety.  Teach me to trust in You with all of my heart and lean not on my own understanding.  At the same time, teach me to fully trust my husband's love for me and my family.  Protect my husband from any harm, danger, evil, and temptation.  Lastly, help me to remember that I cannot and should not be playing god.  Because I cannot control everything and good things happen because of your grace (and YOUR GRACE ALONE) and not by my power or might.

O, Mama Mary, keep me under the mantle of your maternal protection.  When I feel weak, be with me and help me fill my mind with good thoughts.

Hail Mary, full of grace the Lord is with you.

Blessed are you amongst women

And blessed is the fruit of Thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God

Pray for us sinners

Now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.