God is giving me power and I love it. I was just given my first assignment from the Hospice. I am being granted three patients to visit at the Jennings Center for Older Adults. I am so intrigued, and a bit mystified. The center is run by a religious order of sisters, Sisters of the Holy Spirit. I encountered one of the sisters at the Center for Pastoral Leadership in Wickcliffe, Ohio. The order possesses Russian roots as the founder, Mother Josephine, returned home to Russia to establish the order, leaving a Carmelite community based in Rome, during the turning of the nineteenth century into the twentieth. God is giving me power. POWER!!! I am so excited to give back, to be of service, I make fun a bit. Of course, my power to effect souls is within obedience to the Hospice of Western Reserve and now the Church is brought into the ‘foray’. The word came to mind, once again making fun a bit. I am touched, humbled, and ecstatic. Lord, if one of the patients chooses to entertain the Rosary and Divine Mercy chaplet with me, Lord, You will explode my heart. I will nearly faint from joy. God is so good and giving. To be given souls to minister to, Lord, You are so trusting and wonderful. Today I am absolutely humbled, my dreams, or schemes—I have to constantly be watching myself, pride and overwhelming exuberance so quickly rear their ugly heads with me—my dreams, prayerfully aligned with God, a joining of wills, is taking root.

Mother Josephine pray for me, please sister pray for me.

Mother Josephine