Root systems are very shallow. We saw this in the three hurricanes we went through in southern Alabama. Yeah, very alarming!
The bold above has recently grabbed my heart as well. PS: Geralyn and myself are traveling down to North Carolina this week to visit my brother, Michael, and his wonderful wife, Isobel. He has been on a slow descent into dementia for a number of years, but is now very confused. I need to visit again while he can still recognize me and we can share some laughs. Your prayers would be appreciated. Isaiah 50:10 Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word of his servant? Let the one who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on their God.
A great piece for heady folks, but the key for everyone comes after the 1 hour mark. It includes the need for coordinated protest against CBCs. They reference how Trudeau in Canada broke the Truckers' protest by shutting off the drivers' bank accounts. CBCs will function similarly in that an individual's ability to spend will be limited based on one's personal convictions. The gentleman states that the banks desire not to fall completely under the government's sway; their doing fine right now; therefore, only mass protests against the banks will provide the gumption for non-cooperation by banks with the government. After all, the banks are doing fine without CBCs. So listen when they get into the last 15 minutes or so. It's up to the mass coordination of "little ones". You and me! If we feel intimidated and don't rise up now, financial slavery is unavoidable. So listen to the last 15 minutes or so.
I remember watching this happen during a strong hurricane when I was growing up in Nova Scotia. It was so strange, as if the ground was breathing.
Offering up Mass, the Rosary and the Stations this morning. May it be an occasion of much joy and healing.
I read something recently I had never ever heard off before but intend to check out next year in Passion Week. Apparently on Good Friday at 3pm the birds start singing in a totally different way and it can be heard quite plainly. Has anyone ever heard this Catholic Tradition before? It is so easy to check up on. I am really looking forward to listening to hear for myself next Good Friday. I do know at Catholic Apparition Sites the birds stop singing and the dogs stop barking when Our Blessed Lady appears so this sounds like the same kind of thing. https://pirottablog.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/song-of-the-swallow-a-good-friday-legend/ Song of the Swallow – a Good Friday Legend Birds have always been potent symbols in world religions, especially in Christianity. The dove has been the sign of peace since Noah’s ark, as well as a symbol of the Holy Spirit. Up to Victorian times, people believed it that was the only bird the devil could not turn into. The mythical phoenix represents resurrection. Folk legend has it that it was the only bird that refused to eat from the tree of knowledge in the garden of Eden. As a result it remained immortal. Every five hundred years it built a funeral pyre of perfumed woods and set itself a light. An egg materialised in the ashes, from which a rejuvenated phoenix hatched. To the early Christians, the pelican symbolised Christ on the cross, because it was believed to shed its own blood to feed its young. Two more birds are associated with Good Friday and Holy Week. The first one is the robin. A pan-European legend tells that when God was handing out colours to the birds, the robin was the last in the queue. God ran out of paint by the time he got to him and he remained colourless. The luckless fellow became a pariah among his fellow birds, haunting places where no one else would build his nest to hide his shame. One of these forsaken places was Golgotha, a hill outside Jerusalem where the Romans crucified Jewish criminals. The robin happened to be flitting around, looking for twigs to build a nest, when Jesus’ cross was erected. The bird had pity on him and, wanting to help alleviate his pain, pulled a thorn out of Jesus’ head with his beak. Blood splashed on to his chest, staining it a bright red. Ever since then, robins have had red breasts, to show that one of the ancestors helped Jesus in his hour of need. A second legend comes from Scandinavia and features the swallow. It is said that a lot of birds were flying over Jerusalem on the day that Christ was condemned to die on the cross. Sensing a storm gathering overhead, the birds fled to the nearby desert. But the swallow remained behind. When Jesus was crucified, it flew in circles above the cross, chirping, ‘Svale, Svale,’ which means ‘cheer up, cheer up.’ The swallow’s association with Good Friday and Easter was recognised beyond Scandinavian shores. In early Christian times people had no idea that swallows migrated. They believed that the bird hibernated in the mudbanks where it built its nest, emerging from its hidey-hole at the end of winter. This apparent Spring ‘rebirth’ was seen as a symbol of Christ’s resurrection, and has survived the revelation of the swallow’s migratory habits.
Truly, truly beautiful, Padraig. I had a tough work day but what a wonderful post to read at the end of such a day. Since 2016 or so, God, through His saints, has used birds to get my attention so you can bet I'm paying attention to this especially on a day when I've found out that the spectre of the Covid vax has not left me yet - looks like I'm still in the line of fire. I think God made me read this to remind me of hope. Thank you.
This reminded me that today, October 23, is the feast day of St. Capistrano. Swallows are certainly special little birds. After spending the summer within the sheltered walls of of the Old Mission in San Juan Capistrano, California, the cliff swallows take flight on October 23 and head off to their winter home in Argentina. They return on or near March 19, St.Joseph's day. After renovations to the Mission, fewer swallows return, but they can still be seen in many locations around the town.
I'm a government employee and they're in the process of taking disciplinary action against me for defying the government directive requiring all employees to take 2 shots of the Covid vax. Even the slightest mark against me would mean at the very least no more salary increments till I retire (in about 5 years' time). We're paying to put 2 kids through college now and we have 2 waiting in the wings. Money certainly matters. It is sheer cruelty.
If you can avoid it at all just don’t take it. So many brain tumours cancers and strokes and sudden deaths here.
