Joyful Christian Hermit Speaks: Have a Spiritual Advent

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  • @martingettigan1397
    @martingettigan1397 20 днів тому +1

    What a blessing that the joyfull christian a convert to the universal catholic church is such a gold standard in teaching to life long catholics like myself.you have the perfect voice and disposition for radio this is so suciently as you have an added bonus of healing in your voice and what may appear to you as going on too long increases the likelihood of you projecting the prophetic voice and word.keep going I will pray that the us bishops discover your heavenly gifts and introduce you to the entire church.i hear the communion of saints clapping for you as we say in 🇮🇪. Thank you.

    • @theJoyfulChristianHermit
      @theJoyfulChristianHermit  19 днів тому

      Dearest Soul Friend Martin, it is getting late on the Emerald Isle, the Holy Land of St. Patrick and of so many notable saints, including one named Martin and with last name staring with G--so won't spell it out and embarrass him here! You really got to me yesterday when I read this your comment. It shook me to the core. I do not see nor hear any of the positives you mention, but it surely did lift me up and gave me hope that maybe I am doing some small bit of whatever is this "mission" that God told me back in 1987 that He was "sending [me] back" [from death to temporal body and temporal life] "to rear [my] children and to fulfill [my] mission." A year ago when the kidneys failed and then by February it was thought I had multiple myeloma and I was excited to think I'd be outta here by Thanksgiving or Christmas at the latest--the only concern I had was that I'd not fulfilled whatever mission He willed of me and the other part of why He sent me back to earthly, bodily, temporal-tangible life. So when the test came back MGUS instead of MM, I figured God was giving me whatever time remains to hop-to-it (as my late dad used to say). I figured I did not have time to write books and lack confidence for success in that, and always have despite that being a kind of life dream--but seemed Holy Spirit was saying to try some videos. I say "seemed" because I really do not do a good job of this--not from the youtube statistics, anyway. Ha ha ha! But this is my own flawed abilities and being too much a I am now--memory weakening but not much self-discipline so just keep yapping and yapping and going off topic and being so my real self of saying things about others also too much self by means of examples, and criticizing those, this, and that! So you are kindly saying somehow my voice is tolerable--healing I'm not so sure but if so PRAISE GOD for any good effects, and you take a positive spin on my too-lengthy of videos especially for how busy people are these days and my own fam has been quite clear as have others, that my lengthy texts and emails and comments are not anything they or any other has time to read so do not. This is fine with me they do not, but I have wondered how can one express thoughts and ideas or experiences, too, by writing 7 words or less. That was a suggested limit I was given for a text or email. I ramble. I am doing so here--just going off in a mental escapade of conversation explaining this and that of what is not crucial whatsoever or even of interest at all--but it lends impetus to the fact that your encouragement helps me hope that I'm at least striving to do my little bit of what might be considered mission of God--of which everyone has a mission or many to have in life of which God ordains of us.each and all. But some or most seem very good in knowing what it is and then proceed to do and complete their missions. I am "a day late and a dollar short." But I'm trying, yet I so want to improve. But I am so grateful that you have found positives out of my negatives. And I believe God is speaking through your typing to me, to view the positives and be grateful He is blessing me with the wondrous people I am meeting thorugh this little window to the world of others who are out there sriving, seeking, loving His Real Presence and also fulfilling their missions in lfie. I just had the positive thought that we all are a team, and that my little bit even if I go off onto topics or use examples that are akin to raw gossip and are perhaps not at all for the best whatsoever--that others doing very well in their missions, are helping to assuage the ineptness of mine. People really in general just want the short and sweet of it, and this is due to people being very busy and with wanting the nugget of gold and not all the dirt and the other types of rock-substance that has forned around the gold and needing to be cleared away for them to have that nugget. I'd love to have the wisdom or even the appearance of wisdom of some blessed and insightful old hermit who looks more othe part. (One time a young secretary who had the power to get my annulment request denied right off, told me among other things that as a hermit, I "just don't look the part!". I found her perception to be fairly accurate; but I have decided it's a good thing. But to not have wisdom--well, Holy Spirit years ago through my late grandmother sent to give me this--did bestow "the beginnings of wisdom." But I don't seem to cooperate with it. So all the more I am encouraged that you would say such a lovely and hopeful thought that the US Bishops would find something good of my efforts to fulfill my bit of mission for God. Fact is, I have been a bane to bishops--not intending to, of course! But I have been a--yes--a "Bishops' Bane" for many years now--at least when I've been involved in a diocese or two in which bishops were sent letters of disapproval of me by parishioners, encouraged to do so in part by situations of priests as I am also a "Priests' Pirhana". This is truth! The first priest even called me a pirhana! But I researched that fish and found it to be an amazing specimen with a huge perpetual smile of immense teeth, is rainbow colored, and only attacks and eats humans (or other fish) when hungry from not getting enough of the few types of fish it usually eats. Otherwise, I read, they can be rather harmless--again, unless provoked and by extreme hunger..They are also intelligent and hold their own but go about their own business if not starved or provoked. I realized that St. Paul is a pirhana, and in some ways St. Peter, too. But especially St. Paul, and I wrote an article in a newsletter I published for the recipients and growing mailing list back when I was doing the soiup kitchen in 1998-1999: "Called to Suffer." I wrote of the pirhana and how we must consider it a great honor if called out as one. (I'm sure the priest saw or heard someone remark on my article for he inspired it, and there are always, or so I found this to be the case--those persons wo are quite eager to report a pirahna in their midst to the priest/s or bishop who they know dislike said prianha parishioner. But now, as an anonymous hermit who goes on and on, and shows her flaws readily to anyone who bothers to listen to the meandering messages from my massively headachey mind--there will be no busy bishops nor priests who listen to this, and so that leaves the spiritual hierarchy of which the Holy Trinity and I suppose God being First Person, the One to Whom I am held accountable, and thus far He has shown much mercy and love and great tolerance of me, for He pities me to a certain point. He does not particularly appreciate my repeated errors, and I'm sure His Real Presence would appreciate my trying to keep on top of the pain enough to be more concise and direct as that is loving and considerate of busy people who are doing their best in active apostolates PLUS in tending beautifully to their spiritual lives. Still, your comment really got to me deep down in and pulled me up and with more resolve than ever to strive to consider that I ought to at least try harder to be a better voice and to share that which might please especially the "least of these" for the "least" likely also would appreciate some less rambling, headachy sharings. I will ask for some of those graces that Jesus has in abundance because no one thinks to ask for them. I will ask for the middle portion of wisdom if Holy Spirit might consider that I am graduated from the beginnings of wisdom. HOwever, I could talk for a couple hours on how the beginings of wisdom can be actually outstanding as a gift and can carry us through this lifetime quite beautifully. Takes just a small start of sour dough strater for bakers to bake sour dough bread the rest of hteir lives. Wisdom is like sour dough starter; it perpetuates itself. Don't you think? From there, we could really dig into the spiritual life and what aspects of our souls we ought to consider from the ways and means our souls ought to perpetuate because of God's Pure Love in us--and since the soul is comprised of the will and the intellect, God's iwll surely is in there, and God's Pure Love, as well--where but in our soul (akin to the Spirit--of God being in there, too) just a beginning ought to be quite marvelous to take us into much learning of God's Pure Love and to do as the mustard seed--grow into a large tree! Jesus does honor the least of these and the small, the downtrodden. So perhaps I'm as well off being the Bane of Bishops and Priests' Pirhana? Still, I was amazed (and a little amused, my knowing the truth of how I've affected clergy, Protestant included except for the very Irish and Catholic spiritual Da and one elder Lutheran minister)---that you'd pray for the US Bishops to even smile upon me with even minnow-teeth smiles. I don't see it happening, but I am so grateful for you to even think it for look at the rather fun memories I have of my clergy encounters! They are lighthearted memories now, which is a blessing and miracle both. Your positives and prayers are helpful and holy and having good effect on my leastness. Thank you and God bless you eternally, Martin-in-good-company of St. Patrick and Bl, Columba Marmion,St. Fiacre, and so many of God's Emeralds of Ireland!