Seguin: 02/14/09

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Oh YES!

In the 1920s Girl Scout Founder Juliette Gordon Low began helping the first Girl Scouts raise money to achieve special goals for their troops. The first documented council-wide cookie sale of commercial baked Girl Scout Cookies was in Philadelphia in 1934. The first nationally franchised cookie sale was in 1936. When I purchased these cookies, I was told that the Peanut Butter Cremes (which I love!) had been approved by the Drug Council and the peanuts used were perfectly safe. Yum! Yum!

B.P.O.E and Seguin Firemen

There are so many organizations in Seguin which make a difference in our community - the Elks being one of them.
And how fortunate we are to have dedicated and experienced firemen in our city.

Recently the awards were given at the Elks Club to firemen who made a difference this past year. The volunteer firemen and women work tirelessly alongside our city firemen - indeed Seguin is very fortunate!

http://www.seguinfire.com/

each of us walks a solitary path

Thomas Merton writes that
"The contemplative has nothing to tell you except to reassure you and say that if you dare to penetrate your own silence and risk the sharing of that solitude with the lonely other who seeks God through you, then you will truly recover the light and the capacity to understand what is beyond words and beyond explanations because it is too close to be explained; it is the intimate union in the depths of your own heart, of God's spirit and your own secret inmost self...."

Thomas Merton

Life is this simple.
We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent
and God is shining through it all the time.
This is not just a fable or a nice story
It is true.
If we abandon ourselves to God
and forget ourselves,
we see it sometimes
and we see it maybe frequently.
God shows Godself everywhere,
In everything,
In people and in things and in nature and in events.
It becomes very obvious that God is everywhere and
in everything and we cannot be without God.
It is impossible.
The only thing is that we don't see it.

Seguin

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Oh YES!

B.P.O.E and Seguin Firemen

Music (click 'mute' on the playlist if you don't wish to listen)

"tears well up from the heart" - Catherine of Siena