Joyful Christian Hermit Speaks: Urgent Immediacy of Advent

[@2410-s9l]

Have more magnesium, magnesium spray on the skin, great to stop headaches

[@theJoyfulChristianHermit]

Thank you for the idea/reminder. I have magnesium spray I've used in past but have not recently. It did not help then, but I will try again for our bodies are always changing, and body chemistry changes, also. Might help with God's grace, as well! THANK YOU! I totally forgot this as a hopeful remedy!

[@koine1979]

Hermit, sorry to about your headaches. The Happy Birthday Jesus had a great turnout of children, thank you your prayers and good wishes. We had some Spanish families, but a not much turnout of the poorer families. Sisters, Neville, Assumpta, Helen and Charlotte, had face painting, coloring, crafts, cookies and cupcakes- and the Happy Birthday Jesus cake for the children to sing around. Someone read the story of the Holy families journey to Bethlehem and Kimberly, a cooperator, who is musical director at St Angela Merci, brought her children's choir to sing. My daughter Lauren, brought Jack seven, and Sophie five, our grandchildren. Jack is Autistic, and it so true, ''when you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person.'' They and the spectrum are broad. Sophie is a little pistol. Donna, my wife, could not come because she had to attend a birthday celebration for a Godchild. I noticed that almost every year, someone comes just as we are turning down the celebration. This year a mother came with her daughter Charlotte. Mother carried her three and half year old, a girl with Downs syndrome and a feeding tube in her nose. I took some pictures with her phone, in the cress next to baby Jesus. We humans act - at these times like this is so ordinary, but inside we are moved by this noble mother, and our heart is full, knowing the life's cross they carry. They left with a free book, the courtesy of our fininancal benefactor Leonard Werner. My best, as always for you, your children and grandchildren.

[@theJoyfulChristianHermit]

More later, but did my little bit come yet? Likely Monday. Fooey but my own disorganized fault.

[@theJoyfulChristianHermit]

This is all so poignant. I seem as if was there, Koine! The finale of the mother and child arriving, feeding tube and carrying a good-sized little Charlotte--an image in my mind. The photo of her by the creche--touching my weary heart with a spark it needs to fire up yet. We are not finished, my heart and me. Well, my card will likely arrive Monday. Utilize in any way desired or helpful. Thanksf or mentioning some of the sisters' names. I cannot locate the cards sent with their individual messages--three times--as kept them, but I'm in a mess here plus mentally seem in a muddle. Forgot the pain pill this evening so need to augment to get a grip! I can't decide if it is the pain, the head injury, or my increasingly mind leaving body--or if I have some start of dementia or more, as my memory is in inner fog but also far away, and I have memory blackouts. Probably the pain and my "going out, far out and away." Also the solitude in here, and the head injury did not do this initially, not for four years or so. It still does it's loss-of-word aspect--when I cannot think of a word. Unless the TBI increases with time, but it was more word-oriented at first--uable to think of the word but would have a first letter and know it was close--then would come to mind. Thank You, Holy Spirit! So I cannot locate the cards as wanted to write a thanks to each sister who signe and leave messages of prayer and well-wishing. I SO appreciate all the surprises and prayers! The encouragement has kept me going this past year or bit more. Can't recall when I started doing these in earnest more, but I continue prayers for your fmaily and for the Sistesr--for the entire Pauline Family. I pray for Usumo and now will add Charlotte and Jack and Sophie and Lauren--what a beautiful mother is she, and I know somewhat of her selfless love for I have a cousin four years younger with a daughter and then an autistic son. He is going on 33 if my. memory on that can be trusted. March 2 his birthday,-so somethings I recall. My cousin lives in Cohasset MA and was a trail blazer with the schools there to insist and also help develop education programs for children with Autism. YOu are so correct in that there is no one type or category. EAch are unique as the mysterious and bright stars in the universe! Max and his elder sister by mot quite 3 years, have a very special and loving sibling relationship as adults. Charley (Charlotte, named for my aunt) is married but with no children. My cousin and her retired MD husband have provided for an apartment created and added to in part of their home so Max has a sense of his own place, and his parents also can continue taking him to various activities. He is gifted in cartoon characters. Lauren, the little Charlotte's mother, and my cousin Annie are en par with Mother Mary's attributes--in my sincere and forthright assessment! I'm so grateful for the prayers for my children, my family of which your prayers include my three grandchildren. I am eternally grateful, for I am at the point I think I forget to pray! I don't pray as overtly as I oguht, anyway. I pray God considers mypain as prayer for all those I ought to be praying for day and night. I have this Infant of Prague holy water font in bed by me as a prayer for St. Andrea. I have taken to assigning tasks, objects, and pain as prayer enactors. Headache is kicking in--pain doctor used lidocaine instead of steroid! But I am covinced the real reason I was to be there was to pump him full of Advent hope and ideas and gave him assighments as his family needs our prayers veyr much so. Son, daughter, wife and I dared tell him he needs to consider the spiritual of his being as his name is that of a highly spiritual, even mystical Biblical personage. I am a bit bold.... God Bless us through and through, in His Real Presence--love within Christ's Sacred Heart! We continue on, coming onward, forward, into the reality of Advent power and love.