If you hear the word Rosary or see a picture of a Rosary, most of the world population would know it is related to the Catholic Church. Now, most would also know that it is a prayer bead or a prayer tool. I had always thought it was used to pray to Mary. That scared me because I was always taught you can only pray to Jesus, so I thought this was a sacrilegious thing to do. Now, having said all that, I have found myself praying the Rosary every night before bedtime. The reason I came into this prayer habit is that, first, I became Catholic. Second, I found it is not a prayer bead to Mary but a prayer bead that helps you focus on the life of Jesus Christ. Third, it gives me a peaceful rhythm to my meditation on Jesus and his life, with a relaxing rhythm to the different prayers I say as I go through this beautiful prayer tool. I find that I fall asleep much more peacefully. My mind and soul are saturated with thoughts of Jesus and his mortal life and resurrected life. I have found ...
This passed week, I went into my annual physical with the doctor, and he came in and opened up his folder and said, "Oh, you are sixty-five and you should get a Wellness Check, not a physical today." Well, please do not spoil me, doctor! I had to fill out about a dozen pages of questions about my everyday life. Then it was you need a pneumonia shot and read these papers about whether you want to be resuscitated back to life. You are getting older, he told me, and changes start to happen, you may not notice! The whole process really felt like "65 prepare to die!" It has bothered me all week. In the past five years, I have been seeing changes and not all of them I like. But living in the silence of these changes have not been a pleasant experience. My phone has become deafeningly quiet. I find a nap comes not for pleasure but out of necessity. I forget to pull my zipper up after a visit to France (wee-wee). I get so stiffened up that it hurts after sitting too long ...