MANNA FROM HEAVEN

I had to go out today.  I went to mass first.  Then I went to the Social Security Office...which was closed.  Even so, they have an armed officer in the building.  I guess they think some little old man or woman is a threat to them.  As I need to go to another appointment tomorrow I probably can not get back to the S. S. office before Monday.  It is supposed to snow tomorrow eve. and if it does then even going to mass on Friday is questionable.  I would like to go to mass, if nothing else.

My appointment for tomorrow is all about eyes.  No big secret there, as I have glaucoma and the pressure is up.  So I will go "over yonder" to the experts who will shine a very bright light into my eyes and go..."hmm..ahha...umm.  Now we see the problem, your a wee bit vacant in the very back!"  Well, I could tell them that!

I have already had two laser treatments for a weeping vessel, but this time I think I just have "old eyes."  That does not rule out more laser surgery because it is a treatment used for glaucoma, too.  We will see...that is a pun, of course!

Other than that there isn't much going on except that I am busy and would rather just stay home and read a good book.

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IN THE

BOOK OF EXODUS THERE IS

MANY REFERENCE CE

TO THE MANNA OR BREAD

THAT GOD DELIVERED

TH HIS PEOPLE

AS THEY WANDERED

THROUGH THE DESERT

FOR 40 YEARS.

SOME PEOPLE WONDER WHY

GOD JUST DIDN'T SHOW

MOSES'S TRIBE THE WAY

TO THE PROMISED LAND

SOONER THAN LATER

OR WHY IT TOOK SO LONG

TO MAKE THE JOURNEY.

IN EXODUS YOU WILL READ

THAT THE JOURNEY

WAS MADE IN STAGES.

AS THE PEOPLE WANDERED

THEY WERE OFTEN TESTED

AND OFTEN FOUND WANTING.

THEY WERE BEING FORGED

BY TRIAL AND ADVERSITY,

OFTEN BY THEIR OWN

WRONG CHOICES.

AND YET GOD STAYED

WITH THEM AND PROVIDED

THEM WITH MANNA

AND LEAD THEM TO WATER

FROM THE ROCKS,

SUSTAINING HIS PEOPLE

THROUGH OUT.

 

As I read the book of Exodus I think of how much we are like the people of Moses.  God has not abandoned us...yet.  We are just as hard-headed and often wrong-minded as the followers of Moses, in the desert. If you will, read ch.15 and 16 or more.Within you will find the prefigure of the Eucharist and the coming of Christ as well.  This is the year of the Eucharist...The Bread of Life...Manna.

 

 

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