Sunday, April 19, 2009

The Lamb loves us

It's Divine Mercy Sunday...what a blessing to have a merciful Saviour!!!



THE U IN JESUS




Before U were thought of or time had begun,




God stuck U in the name of His Son.




And each time U pray, you'll see it's true,




You can't spell out JesUs and not include U.




You're a pretty big part of His wonderful name,




For U, He was born; that's why He came.




And His great love for U is the reason He died.




It even takes U to spell crUcified.




Isn't it thrilling and splendidly grand He rose from the dead, with U in His plan?




The stones split away, the gold trUmpet blew,




and this word resUrrection is spelled with a U.




When JesUs left earth at His upward ascension,




He felt there was one thing He just had to mention.



'Go into the world and tell them it's true




That I love them all - Just like I love U.'




So many great people are spelled with a U,




Don't they have a right to know JesUs too?




It all depends now on what U will do,




He'd like them to know,




But it all starts with U.



He is the Good Shepherd and we are His cute little sheep.





At church today, I will be blessed to do the second reading and I'd like to share a little of it with you. It is from the first letter of John, chapter 5:1-6



"Beloved: Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten by God, and everyone who loves the Father loves also the one begotten by him. In this way we know that we love the children of God when we love God and his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, for whoever is begotten by God conquers the world. And the victory that conquers the world is our faith."



I honestly NEVER watch television (amazing, huh?) but with some instructions (there are THREE remotes to this TV!) I hope to watch this movie tonight as it should be very uplifting:

"The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler"
Sunday April 19th
9:00 pm ET/PT
CBS

About the Show

As a Polish Catholic social worker in the early 1940s, Irena Sendler created and led a conspiracy of women who moved in and out of Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto disguised as nurses employed by Warsaw's Health Department. Though they worked under the guise of merely attempting to prevent and contain the spread of Typhus and Spotted Fever, Sendler and her brave cohorts emerged each time with the children of consenting Jewish parents. The children were sometimes sedated and hidden inside boxes, suitcases and coffins as a means of rescuing them from their imminent deportation to death camps. They were given new identities and placed with Polish families and in convents. Sendler kept a hidden record of their birth names and where they were placed with the hope that they would some day be reunited with their own families. In 1943, the Nazis discovered Sendler's daring and dangerous ruse and arrested her. She was tortured by Gestapo agents and suffered broken feet. On the day of her scheduled execution she was rescued by "Zegota," the underground network with which she worked to save the Jewish children.

As a result of Sendler's efforts, approximately 2,500 children were smuggled to safety. Not a single child she rescued was ever betrayed or discovered by the Nazis.

The movie is based on the authorized biography of the heroine, Mother of the Children of the Holocaust: The Irena Sendler Story, by Anna Mieszkowska, published in 2005.



We make it so hard on ourselves all the time and yet the answer is so easy....we can all be saints if we just use love as the answer for all the problems in the world.







~~~Thank you God for giving us the blessings of answers by trying to be loving always to all people.

4 comments:

  1. Marcy,
    Very informative. I will try to watch the movie it sounds good.Your posts always make me stop and think. Thank you.

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  2. Oh, I heard this movie advertised on the radio and I wanted to watch it, thanks for the reminder! If I can't watch it I'll at least remember to record it.
    I loved this post, and I always loved thinking of Jesus as The Lamb of God, and also as our Good Shepherd. I think that's why I love lambs so much!
    Another beautiful post, thank you!

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  3. Most grateful for your post. Saw also the Intro re: The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler the a.m. on CBS Sunday Morning. Hope to record it as Bible Study is here tonoc.

    I also must say that I am impressed with your linguistic skills. I have trouble with English and work at keeping IT alive. Hats off to you!! Cathy

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  4. Oh Marcy I have been hearing and reading about this wonderful lady for many years. she allowed God to move through her and did such a beautiful wonderful thing. Loved your blog today and your reading, take care/I care xo

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