collecting little mementos to prove herFrom StoryPeople.
theory that this is a vale of tears & my
advice is you damn well better stay out
of her way
True today, I'm afraid. Family stuff - not catastrophic, but worrisome - and, since I took Ciprofloxacin several weeks ago, I seem to have developed colitis which strikes off and on. Last night it was on, interrupted by only about 3 hours of restless sleep, so a prayer or two would be welcome.
My maternal grandmother, who took a rather gloomy view of the world, often said life was a vale of tears.
UPDATE: Collect for the 16th Sunday after PentecostH/T to Penny at One Cannot Have Too Large a Party, who posts lovely pictures and prayers which often give me peace,
Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things for which we are not worthy to ask, except through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen
