{this moment} 

 

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 A weekly ritual. A single photo -  capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

If you're inspired to do the same, leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see.

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Nana is here to visit and she is helping me plant a vegetable garden! I am richly blessed with the most wonderful mother! She comes to visit from 3000 miles away to serve. I love her!

{this moment} was inspired by a wonderful mama blogger.

If you feel inspired to do the same please leave a comment! 

Have you seen "For Greater Glory?" I hear it's all the rage! My sister wrote a review on it, make it an excuse to go on a date!

"Go first and be reconciled with your brother,
and then come and offer your gift."

- Matthew 5:20-26

Comfrey for Broken Bones

My first post on healing herbs! Stay tuned for many more.

Last night my only Grandmother got in a car accident. It was a scare for sure! She is just fine but landed herself a broken hand and stitches on her elbow. Thank the Lord the is ok!

So what can we do about a broken hand? 

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Hello, Comfrey!

isn't she beautiful? :)

My mother happens to be visiting her this week and called me to look up this healing herb. God is so incredibly thoughtful when he provided these herbs for us. Not only are they beautiful, they will help our bodies heal themselves. Perfect and VERY intelligently designed. Thank you Lord.

Comfrey can be used topically for inflammation, pain and wound healing. It has been considered to help the knitting together of bones in cases of fractures.

If you have the flower in your yard, awesome. If you don't - you can purchase it in a tincture and apply it to your broken bone. Call your local health food store. Most likely they will carry it. 

It can also be taken internally for gastrointestinal, respiratory and gynaecological concerns.

Does this make you wonder at the glory of God? It sure makes me stand in awe. Because of Comfrey, my Grandmother Ruth will heal faster and be comforted by God's divine providence. 

"Know that the LORD does wonders for his faithful one;
the LORD will hear me when I call upon him.
Tremble, and sin not;
reflect, upon your beds, in silence."

- Psalm 4 

(this is not medical advice, simply sharing) 

Coconut Lemon Meltaways

My dear sister wrote out this recipe and mailed it to me. Don't you love getting snail mail? Such a simple joy in life! She LOVES these cookies and I am going to make them for a friend's baby shower. Let me know if you try them too! (She said they literally melt in your mouth)

Coconut Lemon Meltaways

Makes 22-24 cookies

Dry Ingredients

1 1/2 c. Almond Flour

1 1/2 c. Dried Shredded Coconut

1/3 c. Coconut Flour

2 big pinches of sea salt

    Mix dry ingredients together and set aside.

Wet Ingredients

6 T. Honey

4 T. Lemon Juice

2 tsp. Vanilla

1 T. Lemon Zest

Mix together with mixer or food processor. Slowly pour wet ingredients into dry mix until well incorporated.

Mix in:

1/4 c. and 1 T. melted coconut oil.

Form small balls of batter and warm the oven to 170 degrees. Bake cookies for 1 hour, then chill another hour before eating. ENJOY!!

She found the recipe  here. 

"Sing to the LORD a new song,
for he has done wondrous deeds;
His right hand has won victory for him,
his holy arm."

- Psalm 98

Happy Feast Day!

There is cause for celebrating for today is the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ!

"Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you - for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart...don't listen to the demon, laugh at him, and go without fear to receive the Jesus of peace and love...
...Receive Communion often, very often...there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your heart for nothing..."

- St. Therese of Lisieux

I don't even know where to being to say how grateful I am for the Sacrament of the Eucharist. Nothing good I have done in my life is from my own accord. Our Lord sustains and protects me at every moment - through the gift of Himself - the Body and Blood of Our Lord. We are SO incredibly blessed to have the privilege of receiving Him whenever we please! I get a bit overwhelmed simply thinking about that, it's such an incredible mystery of our Catholic faith. 

Enjoy this Eucharistic hymn while you browse the net on this wonderful Feast Day . . . 

Keeping to my blog theme I would like to share some thoughts by St. Hildegard:

“Therefore the same power of the Most High which produced the flesh in the womb of the virgin causes, at the words of the priest, the bread and wine offered on the alter to be changed into the sacrament of his Body and Blood. This happens in such a way that the birth, the passion, the burial, the resurrection and the ascension  of the Son of the most high Father  appears in the same sacrament as the circle of a coin reveals its Lord.”  

-          St. Hildegard of Bingen, text taken from this book.

How do you celebrate feast days such as today?