Looking Through Windows of Grace 1-18-21

Let your hearts rejoice and be filled with the Easter Joy for He is Risen and nothing can change that Truth Even though we may not be able to gather in our Easter Finery our souls are adorned with the lasting Joy that flows from His Love For He died to prove His Love and make all things new so we do not remain in our prisons of fear but come out into the light of the Resurrection strengthened in spirit and immersed in Hope finding respite from the sufferings we have gone through He walks anew amongst us and if we look for Him... in the various disguises He wears we will encounter Him as did the Apostles in those early days If we but open the eyes of our souls we will see the many little ways He touches us with grace If we but attune our ears to His Voice we will hear the words that will transform our bodies and our souls for it is our Faith in the Truth of who He is that gives us healing, insight, and needed wisdom so no matter what is happening in the World nothing can touch the Easter that lives indelibly within us so we always remain strong and safe in His love Happy Easter Ilona Frances Weise

LOOKING THROUGH WINDOWS OF GRACE reflections and prayers in a time of uncertainty Anew A sweet fragrance now covers the earth an eternal dew that rises anew from the sufferings and death of Christ bathing our souls in grace so we explode with the Joy of our salvation and see anew the Splendor of Christ’s Resurrected Glory so the power of His Resurrection invades us Out of deep love for us and nothing within us remains beyond His power to transform Christ suffered and walked through the corridors of death to remove its sting He has made death a passageway to a new and eternal day so we may know the Father and live forever in His love so we no longer fear Death but live anew for God Christ has made us children of the Resurrection and invited us to walk anew with Him so Resurrection Light pervades our being to heal our wounds and free us from our self love so with Him and in Him and through Him we become instruments of His love and grace bringing hope for others so through our union with Him the work of salvation continues until His love reaches into every corner of our world and transforms every soul until the whole world bows in adoration before Him Ilona Frances Weise

Denzel LOOKING THROUGH WINDOWS OF GRACE reflections and prayers in a time of uncertainty Resurrection Light The stone was rolled away…the tomb was empty but from that holy place an immortal light travels throughout time to confront the darkness of souls Oh Glorious Light Oh Holy Light Oh unwavering Resurrection Light you are lantern of glorious hope for those who believe and for those who are lost Light of Christ shine brightly so all would come to know Truth shine brightly so all would find their way Pierce the darkness so that part of us that has no hope that part of us that languishes in despair that part of us that is dead in sin might enter this Light and be made new Christ, Our Light come in Your Resurrection Glory and allow us to encounter You Heal…transform and redeem us so we might dwell in Your Light and live forever Make us Your own Ilona Frances Weise

LOOKING THROUGH WINDOWS OF GRACE reflections and prayers in a time of uncertainty Denzel A Prayer during Eastertide Lord Jesus...draw near to us and walk with us anew Bring us into Your sacred Silence where we can listen to You where You can explain the mysteries of life where You can break the bread within us and feed us so our hearts are open to Your Presence Let the Joy of the Resurrection explode within us as we learn to recognize You in the ordinary events of our lives as we cling to You, our Risen Lord Let us draw from you the grace we need to walk in newness of life so strengthened by our union with Your Sufferings we are able to endure all that is being asked of us with a joy and fortitude that flows out to us as gift from Your Pierced Heart May we be given grace to love You above all May we find solace in our sufferings May we become all You desire us to be Lord...Listen to our hearts...hear us Ilona Frances Weise He is not here He has Risen

LOOKING THROUGH WINDOWS OF GRACE reflections and prayers in a time of uncertainty Denzel Spring Flowers The tears we shed for others... the sadness we feel at the sufferings all around us are never wasted for God gathers them and keeps them in His Heart He sees them as precious...as a sign of the growth of love in our hearts and when we are worn by life... dried by the winds of adversity and in need of grace He sends love back to us to refresh us...to strengthen us...to anoint us with hope God returns to us and blesses us with even greater abundance whatever we have given...whatever we have lost Even the sorrows we have suffered work for good within us they soften our hearts and water the parched earth of our beings to bring forth …within our souls the Spring flowers that will bloom forever Ilona Frances Weise

LOOKING THROUGH WINDOWS OF GRACE reflections and prayers in a time of uncertainty Denzel This Present Pain Life on earth is never as we hoped it would be...it always falls short and disappoints Daily we face the shortcomings of ourselves and others Daily we experience boredom, frustration and dissatisfaction Yet when we learn to embrace these discomforts we begin to recognize the work of God in our souls a work meant to bring about our perfection We are a people called to hope a people called to understand that in the Divine Will these small sufferings, disappointments and hardships sanctify us so we rise to greater heights becoming more forgiving...more loving...more like Our God The virtues of patience, faithfulness and selfless love grow within us as we transcend our present pain for future glory as what we endure takes on eternal merit as our sufferings mingle with Christ's to obtain grace for ourselves and others It is in this mystery of suffering that the world in which we find ourselves can be healed, redeemed and made new in Our Risen Christ All done for Christ All done through Christ All done with Christ Ilona Frances Weise The sufferings of this present time are as nothing compare with the glory to be revealed for us. Romans 8:1