Stocks and Precious Metal Charts - We Can Throw Our Pebble in the Pond

 

"If you choose to serve you can keep the commandments,      to be faithful is doing the will of God.
He has placed fire and water before you;
     stretch out your hand and choose.
Before each of us is life and death;
     choose, and it will be given to you."

Sirach 15:15-17

"What is more hostile to mercy and works of love than greed, which is the root of all evils? Unless that vice is destroyed by lack of nourishment, it will grow in the heart as an evil weed taking root, until the heart springs up with the thorns and briars of vices rather than the seed of true goodness.

Let us then resist this pestilence of evil and follow after love, without which no virtue can flourish, that by this path of love whereby Christ came down to us, we too may rise up with Him to Whom with God the Father and the Holy Spirit is honour and glory for ever and ever.  Amen."

St. Leo the Great, Sermon 74, 17 May 445 

"What we would like to do is change the world — make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And to a certain extent, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute — the rights of the worthy and the unworthy poor in other words, we can to a certain extent change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world."

Dorothy Day, Love Is the Measure, June 1, 1946

"Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things... Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake."

Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion

In June 2022 after our little dog Dolly had passed away, we took in another little dog, that had also suffered abuse and been abandoned.   Her name was Daisy.  There are private groups who take animals from shelters when no one else will adopt them.  

She had a myriad of health problems, including a heart defect, which is why no one wanted her. 

She had to go to the vet every month.  We took care of her, cleaned her ears and gave her special medicine, every night.   

She was funny, and a good companion.  She made our home her own.   And then some.

Her heart finally gave out today.  One last visit to the vet.

"God has created me to do Him some definite service.  I shall do good, I shall do His work.  I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place while not intending it if I do but keep His commandments.

Therefore I will trust Him.  Whatever I am, I can never be thrown away.  If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him.  If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him.  He does nothing in vain.  He knows what He is about. He may take away my friends.  He may throw me among strangers.  He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me — still He knows what He is about."

John Henry Newman

She was a good little dog.

Have a pleasant evening.