Moments with Mary

HOLIDAYS ARE HARD.   Bottom line.   Trying to cope, act normal, cover up tumultuous emotions, stop lethargy, stifle inner screams (the list goes on…) seems to be a lost cause when you’re grieving.  Everything we’re experiencing inside of us does not match up with how we’re acting outside of us.  Our composures are total opposites.  To the outside world, we’re holding up well.  Inside of us there lies a myriad of hidden emotional pain and hurt ready to erupt at the slightest misgiving.  Yet we can’t.  We have to hold it together.  We just need to make it through this holiday or for that matter...each day.  How?  The answer is Grace.  God’s Grace is sheer gift that transforms our minds, our hearts and our souls.  God’s Grace and God's loving Mercy will carry us through the hardest of days and comforts us when nothing else can.  Your loved one is eternally in a constant state of Grace and we experience moments ...

THE KEY TO ETERNITY After the death of someone we love, human nature kicks in and we begin to wonder about what has really happened to them.  Every religion offers their descriptions of eternity like heaven, paradise, semira, nirvana, etopia… but still our human mind wonders: did our loved one just die and that’s it?  There are many holy writings about the afterlife written by holy people to reflect upon, along with testimony from those with near death experiences.  Scriptures bear powerful witness to life after death of people coming back from the dead after burial; namely, Jesus, and those he brought back to life: Lazarus, the daughter of Jairus, and a few others.  The entire Bible bears witness to heaven starting from the very beginning in Genesis when God created the heavens and the earth.  Jesus assures us constantly in the Scriptures there is heaven and his Father is there and even declares it in that beautiful prayer, “Our Father who art in heaven…on eart...