Monsignor Pope Ping!
This basic statement is true and has always been so.
We need the support, cooperation and at times the affection of others to have the best life.
Much of that support comes from knowing we now share the same experience of being alive through God’s grace. Our life is a gift. We have choices in how to use or acknowledge that gift. I must remind myself of that every so often, so I don’t get stuck on being negative.
Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the Lord. For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, And shall not see when good comes, But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, In a salt land which is not inhabited.Jeramiah 17:5-8.“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.
For those of us who see Labor Day as just a waste; it is important to both celebrate and remember that this day is also V-J Day.
U.S. Army ground troops suffered 41,592 killed and 145,706 wounded.
Thank-you for the posting. God Bless.