The Train

The other day I was going to my class at H&R Block and I had to get there on time. While on my way, I was getting close to the railroad tracks when suddenly the lights go on, the gated come down and I had to stop the car. Meantime I told the Lord: "Please don't let it be a bunch of cars. I don't have time for that. Just make it one car only." Suddenly, here comes the train, and it's ONE car only. Oh, My again!!!

Paul John Paul II Rosary

When I received a Rosary with Pope St John Paul II inscribed on medals for each of the 4 Our Father's I really liked it so much I wanted another one to put in my purse. So I tried looking up on the organization who sent it to me's website and nothing. Then I get a phone call from my mother who tells me somebody she knows died and he had a special rosary and wants to give it to me. While Nick Guarriello was in CA visiting his son and daughter in law, my mother had a dinner for them. She gave Nick the rosary to give to me. After he came home he mailed it to me. I opened up the package and Lo! and Behold! the rosary was the St John Paul II Rosary that I was wanting. Oh, my!!!

Today I went to the Abbey to attend the last day of the retreat by Elizabeth Farley and it was on Edith Stein. After the Lunch, I thought I should stay for Vespers but the Holy Spirit said no, you need to go home and clean up all the tree limbs that are sitting on your lawn and sidewalk. Hmmm, yes, I better. So on the say home I asked the Lord if he could send me somebody who would help me with those big trunks. When I get home at the end of the street, is a man working on a big trunk of a tree that had fallen during the ice storm last week. So I parked my car in the garage, walked down the street and I asked the man if he could help me too. He said yes, after he's done there. When he was done he came over and started cutting the big limbs with his chain saw. In the meant time my friend John came over and he helped the man with the tree limbs. I made muffins for the man and also gave him a jar of my home made Lemon Cucumber Pickles and a jar of my home made Cranberry Jam with Grand Marnier. We managed to fill up the big green garbage container and he took the big pieces and put them in his truck. I will have to fill up the green container again next weekend since the garbage man does not come until Friday and today is Sunday. Thank you Lord.

Fr Tim's surgery

I was at morning mass at St Joseph church in downtown Salem on Oct. 13th. Mass started at 7:05am. Fr Tim was having surgery at 7am. In the middle of the mass I felt this glow around my head, and my mouth suddenly opened up in a smile without my doing it myself. Then I heard a voice quietly inside me say: "Fr Tim is fine, he is going to be just fine!" I was flabbergasted. I looked at my watch and it was 7:27am. When I got home I emailed Fr Tim and related what happened to me in church that morning. He would not get back home from the hospital until the next day. The day after that I got an email from Fr Tim telling me that the Glow was correct. Everything went fine, he had no cancer. The tumor in his bladder was benign and the prostate was benign as well. No cancer whatsoever. AMAZING!!! How God talks to us!!!

I was going to make rice a roni. I decided to fry it on the frying pan on the stove first. When I finished doing that, I put the rest of it in a Microwave container to finish cooking in the microwave. While doing that I remembered that "La Raspa" does not happen in the microwave. Oh, darn! But I wish it would happen. So 20 mins later, I took out the dish out of the microwave, I took a spoon and mixed it and found "La Raspa" at the bottom of the dish. What a miracle.

Parking spot

I went downtown Salem to go to the Eucharistic Adoration chapel and I was thinking since it's just after 7am there may not be any parking spot by the chapel since people are there for mass. I asked the Lord if I can have a parking spot nearby so I don't have to walk too far. When I get there, I found a parking spot available right in front of the chapel. My goodness, is God good or what? I am overwhelmed by his goodness to me.

Aguacero

Today was a beautiful day to go walking on my lunch hour: Sunny and warm. So I marched outside of my office to go for my usual lunch walk. Walked all the way to the Salem Center Mall. While I was there I called my friend Carrie to discuss my trip to the airport and how to get there. We talked for a while but then I looked outside and noticed a huge downpour of rain. And me without my raincoat and umbrella. So I quickly hung up the phone, went to a couple of stores to find umbrellas and found nothing. So I darted out of Macy's to run to work but stopped at the Oregon Dept of Energy Building which has an overhang I could stand there and catch my breadth. While on my way over there I asked the Lord: "If you have any miracles left in you and if you want to, I really need a ride to work." So while standing in front of the Energy Bldg, a woman, walked out of the building, dressed quite nice, and looked at me and asked me if I worked at the Employment Dept. I asked her: "How could you tell?" she answered: "Because I used to work there, and what with all the publicity it's been getting in the Oregonian" Then she asked: "Do you need a ride?" I said: "Yes", so she said: "I'm on my way to lunch, I can take you there and drop you off, there is my car over there." We walked over to her car and she drove me to work. It was 12:50 and I needed to be at work by 1pm. I got to my desk at 12:59 pm. I was overwhelmed by God's goodness. I had asked the woman where she was from originally and she said Mexico. I told her I was Cuban. I blessed her and she thanked me. and off she went.