Interview with Canadian Sculptor Timothy Schmalz about My Icons And Artist Shop

He's so cool- watch it just to meet a really awesome guy - modern day Michael Angelo!!

This is my Artist Interview with Timothy Schmalz last night.
Please WATCH and SHARE!
Come Holy Spirit!

Next week, I will be interviewing him on his work.

Artist Shop:  https://marykloskafiat.threadless.com/

Mary Kloska's "FIAT CD" is now available for purchase!!

August 22nd, my first CD, “FIAT” was released on 150 syndications. Here’s a link to Amazon Music, iTunes, AppleMusic and Spotify. You can also order a CD through Amazon and they will create and send it to you. That option would really help me:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GHMSWVF/ref=mp_s_a_1_1…

or: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1528498581?ls=1&app=itunes

http://itunes.apple.com/album/id/1528498581

https://open.spotify.com/album/2e3PsK9Sqp1jJDv0kQJ8q4

spotify:album:2e3PsK9Sqp1jJDv0kQJ8q4

Episode 21: Mary Kloska Speaks on Her New Book, "The Holiness of Womanhood."

“The more a woman is Holy, the more she becomes a woman.”- Archbishop Fulton Sheen

My new radio/podcast video program this week is:

Episode 21: Mary Kloska Speaks on Her New Book, "The Holiness of Womanhood."

At the beginning I sing a NEW SONG called, “The Woman of Love” that I wrote about JESUS and MARY and WOMEN.
I hope that by going through the book with you, all will be enticed to buy and read it.
Please LISTEN, LIKE and SHARE.

Description: In this episode, Mary discusses her newly published book, "The Holiness of Womanhood." Sitting before an icon she painted of images of Jesus with women in the Gospels and opening with a song she wrote about Our Lady and the women in the icon, Mary creatively unveils the multifaceted wisdom of God's true vocation to live holiness in womanhood. Mary takes the listener step by step through the various chapters of her book explaining an overview of what is covered in each one. She ultimately strives to unite each woman's heart with the Heart of Jesus -Who through His Suffering and Death recreated womanhood, healing it back to the Father's original design for femininity. She encourages male listeners to recognize and respect the great gift God entrusted to them in women, and to see and love Our Lady in each woman he encounters. She ends by drawing everything back to Our Lady, the archetype of womanhood and God's masterpiece of femininity.
#catholicwomen
#holiness
#holyfeminism
#blessedmother
#womensspirituality
#holinessofwomanhood
#catholicmusic
#catholicart
#iconsofjesus
#catholicbookonwomen
#fiat

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Video is here. 

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Happy Feast Day of the Queenship of Mary!!
So many blessings and gifts that I want to share with you. This first picture is an icon of Our Lady that I painted yesterday for Her Feast Day today. She’s available on my Artist Shop.
I ask for prayers tonight as I have a video interview with Timothy Schmalz. He’s an incredible Vatican sculptor who will be interviewing me about my artwork and my new Artist Shop https://marykloskafiat.threadless.com

He’s also involved with a fascinating program on Dante through my publisher- you can see it here: https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/helpdantehelpitaly/

Those who have ordered my products have told me that the quality is very good!!
My interview with Timothy will be posted tomorrow.

ALSO, today my first CD, “FIAT” is being released on 150 syndications. They said that Spotify might take a few more days. Here’s a link to Amazon Music. You can also order a CD through Amazon and they will create and send it to you. That option would really help me:

FIAT CD

If you click on the last picture in this series you can listen to one of my songs from the CD for free!!

Lastly, my podcast that will be up this weekend on YouTube and radio syndications is about my new book, “The Holiness of Womanhood “. Please join me in listening to my explanation and at the beginning is a NEW SONG that I wrote about Jesus and Women. I will post the link tonight!!

TO GET MY BOOK CLICK HERE!

https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/holinessofwomanhood/

"Fiat." CD Will Be Released August 22nd, the Queenship of Mary

So, AUGUST 22 I RELEASE MY MUSIC CD -"FIAT".
CLICK on the picture on the below to LISTEN to a pre-view.

So, why not…? Why not publish a book in English, work on eight translations, get two more books ready for publication, write three more, keep up a blog, do weekly video podcasting and radio in multiple languages, open an Artist Shop full of icons and the like, and release a music CD all within the same month? Oh- and work full time& pray several hours a day... and stop by my parents to carry in their groceries, water their tomatoes and even try to brush my teeth once in a while? 😂😂😂Jesus is funny.
He is keeping this contemplative heart very busy these days.
I know, I know, "Just say, 'yes,' -one heartbeat after heartbeat...at a time' is all He asks.

So… I'm releasing a CD this week (August 22- if nothing goes wrong before then). But its all set to be released. I really want to gift to the world what Jesus has given to me for 30 some years. I mean, I'm 43, but really He’s intensely been forming me for about 30 years.

So on August 22 I will finally (after years and years of sitting on it) release that first CD of mine called “Fiat”.

I am waiting until August 22 because it's the feast of the Queenship of Mary and she is my Queen and my everything. It’s all for Her and with Her and in Her etc. etc. etc. So in order to honor Her I will share this little gift with anybody who would be interested in having it.

The CD is something that I professionally recorded many years ago. I made copies and gave it to some people and it's been used often on retreats. Those of you from Holy Cross College remember how my brother used it with campus ministry for all of the campus ministry retreats. It's simple guitar and voice -all of the songs that I wrote really were given to me in prayer -and the CD has a back up guitarist who was a priest friend of mine in Poland and who has asked to remain nameless.

I've actually never downloaded a song off the Internet myself. I've never used, let alone owned, an iPod. I know absolutely nothing about digital music. But my dear nephews in LA (who are in the music industry -the jingle for Mike's Hard Lemonade right now was written and produced by my nephew Matthew) have coached me a tiny bit and I think that I found a platform that can distribute my stuff without a whole lot of hullabullu on my part. It will be available on iTunes, Apple Music, AmazonMusic and about 150 other outlets and syndications. There will also be the possibility to order a hard copy CD from Amazon that they will fulfill. Their graphics aren’t quite as beautiful as mine, but Fiat. This is the path that the Lord opened before me.

I really hope that all of you come to love this music in the same degree that the students at Holy Cross did, that my priests and friends in Russia did, that the bishop and the people I shared it with an Africa did, and especially as my nieces and nephews have. And I do hope that sometime very soon I will find a way to professionally record my newest songs for a second CD. I really love that Maria Bambina one and I'll probably just put my own little phone recording of it back up for you all here on September 8.

I will let you know more details of how exactly you can get my new CD (both as a download or a physical CD) by the end of the week. I don't always understand what Jesus asks of me, but step by step we fulfill His will and travel towards heaven.

In the meantime, take a listen for free to one of the songs below -its my and everyone else's favorite.
"May You never be alone, Jesus, in the Fire of Your Love!"

Come Holy Spirit!!

African Orphans

Here's just the music, photos and footage from my podcast on African Orphans below. I thought some might like this short version.

African Orphans

EPISODE 20: MY AFRICAN TREASURES!!!
I can't believe I am already publishing my 20th radio/podcast/YouTube program. When I hesitated so long after being invited to do this (because I felt totally inadequate) Jesus told me to just start... to just say 'yes' to this weekend, to this program, to this this work here and now today. And by taking lots of little steps, I am so happy that I have already been able to share so many treasures with all of you in such a short time.
Come Holy Spirit. +

This week I am so excited to share with you all about the AFRICAN ORPHANS that I cared for years ago. The best is all of the photos and video footage that I added at the beginning and at the end of this program. At the very end you will meet my most special treasure from Africa... my niece Kadie who was an orphan in Ethiopia who my sister's family adopted after being inspired by all of the pictures and stories that I share with you here.

Please LISTEN and SHARE and remember to PRAY FOR OUR LITTLEST BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN ORPHANAGES!!

Title: Mary Kloska on Missionary Work with Orphans in Africa
Description: In this episode, Mary speaks about her work with orphan children in Africa. She describes how God led her there, as well as what her work looked like on a day to day basis. Including real footage, photographs and music, Mary brings alive the plight of orphan children -especially focusing on the babies she served in Tanzania. Mary inspires the listener to pray for these children, as well as to prayerfully consider helping them in more substantial ways through adoption and supporting adoptive families.
#orphansinafrica #catholicorphanage #orphanbabies #missionary #africanmissionarywork #tanzanianorphans #adoption #abandonedbabies #africantreasure

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Pray bravely...

Well, He did it!
Jesus finally did it.
He answered my prayer and so now I am overwhelmed. 😅🌻
He somehow combined together in my life these two spiritual objectives that I have prayed over for 20 years and I'm about to take these down from my bathroom wall because His trust in me is just too much. Sometimes I think Jesus forgot how little and incapable little Mary is. I am seriously tempted to stop praying this:

#1.) The Prayer of Jabez.
I have prayed it for years. God expanded my territory all over the world, to all ethnicities, languages, age groups, socio-economic classes, religions -in active ministry, as a contemplative hermit, in simple everyday coffee drinking ☕️ Aunt Mary life... and now through social media (which I am brand-new to within the past year) I can't handle any more 'expansive territories'. I am not famous like famous Catholic musicians, actors, apologists or important people. I am truly 'just little Mary.' BUT, over 5000 people have personally contacted me over the past 6 weeks... I can't keep up. I don't even have time to pray about how Jesus wants me to answer each one like I always do... I just follow my gut.

It broke my heart today when someone messaged me angry that I wouldn't chat with him. I tried to explain what I did on that post a few weeks ago -if he had some specific or important questions then ask, but I couldn’t just chit chat- and he wrote me that "Jesus always made time for EVERYONE." I am just too little. Too limited. I am trying to meet people solely to help them get to heaven -and the best way I see that (especially with my work and contemplative needs) is to reach many through books, podcasts, etc., I could repeat myself over and over and over to people about interior healing or humility or trust... but I can't... so I told everyone at one time through podcasts. This is all such a sacrifice for me, I wish it would be enough for people... I wish they could see my love. I would LOVE to have the time to get to know some of these incredible people who contact me, some because we could bear greater fruit together, others in order to help with their problems, etc., The opportunities to help people become saints are so expansive right now I simply can't keep up. Yes, God wants my spirituality spread to people everywhere... how could He not want me to share the Catholic Church's riches with all those begging from me... this is just so complicated with the limits of time. I have such a deep need for solitude and prayer... such a pile of work in so many different languages and areas... so little time... Like U2 would say, I am constantly 'Running to Stand Still.'

The Prayer of Jabez works... if you pray for God to conform you to Himself and then to use you expansively to conform others, He will without limit -because His desires for each human heart are so limitless. I always thought that I would die someday from a melted heart... just from my heart being such a fire of His Love that it would melt... but these days I think I might die of my heart exploding with so much of His grace and love for people everywhere... everywhere that I cannot reach by myself. These days when my only strength -only support -only help is His Thorn in my side I hear Him encourage me with a whisper... 'My Grace is Sufficient for Thee.'

#2.) "Be Who You Are." St. Catherine of Sienna said this... but my confessor has pounded this into my head for a decade. "Why do you care what people think, Mary? Do what God wants. It doesn't matter what some Bishop or your family or the world or yada yada think of you. Please Jesus. Just be "Mary." That's all He desires." And then... St. Catherine says through that alone you will 'set the world afire.'

Well, I am getting messages from all of you of incredible miraculous ways that God has brought me to you as an answer to your prayers whispered in fear, in dejection, in hopelessness... in Pakistan... in Sri Lanka... in Egypt... in Colombia and Brazil. "I prayed and then God showed me your profile on Facebook and you are the answer to my prayer." How can anyone possibly say this to little 'ol 'Mary Kloska'? They can not because of me, but because of Jesus Who I have tried to allow to live as a fire of Love in me. Jesus said, "I came to set the earth on fire and how I wish it were already ablazing!" Then many years later He inspired St. Catherine of Sienna to say, "Be who God created you to be and you will set the world on fire..." We can answer this desire of Jesus' (His desire for the world to be set on fire) simply by being who God created us to be. 🔥

Three or four people have contacted me and literally asked if I could bring them to the US (because their situations were so dire) and they would be my slave and do whatever I needed. First of all, that is sad and impossible for me to do... but secondly, my response was that God was present with them where they were. He didn't want a knight in shining armor to come and take all suffering from them by bringing them to a Hollywood life (which I completely don't live, by the way.) God needs saints everywhere. And that was my answer to them. I can't be in Asia right now... but they can. And there are souls who will not get to heaven unless they remain in their country -in their difficult situations -with hearts trusting Jesus, calling out to Jesus, radiating Jesus... God needs them to be saints right where they are.

So I write this today to encourage you to pray bravely, fiercely, radically... don't fear to ask Him to enlarge your territory (for His great purposes) and don't fear when He does it... just surrender to His work, His plan, step by step. I am like a one-year-old standing on Jesus' feet holding His hands and He is stepping, walking, doing all. I am just with Him. That's how He wants to work IN EVERYONE'S LIFE.
Everyone's.
And don't seek to please others... seek only to please God... don't seek to just carry one candle into the world... be who He created you to be and then allow Him to be a fire in you. I spoke of this in the podcast I posted on Russian spirituality. Don't be a little lamp plugged into the wound of His Heart... allow His Heart to unite with yours and be a Fire of Love within you. Don't just speak words from time to time that spread light... like lightbulbs coming from your mouth... instead allow Him (both in joy and in pain) to CONSUME you with the fire of His Love and then be a fire with Him.

That's probably enough for tonight.... Rest in Him. And never be content with being less then who He created you to be, which in turn will transform you into fire.... in this, you can spread His Love like wildfire over all the earth (and into purgatory too! 🙂 )

"At the end of life we will solely be judged on Love." -St. John of the Cross

http://fiatlove.blogspot.com

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https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/holinessofwomanhood/

My book is here!!

A few weeks after surgery everyone felt it safe enough to visit my Mom recovering from surgery. Here’s a few pictures from this afternoon- staring my newest nephew Matthew, a special picture with Olivia who took the picture of me on the back cover of the book and a whole bunch of excited kids. I even managed to get a few great pictures of my Mom, which rarely happens. All of the kids were inspired to write books and do art like me. In fact, I told them that if they work hard on some Catholic writing and art, I will feature them with their work in an upcoming podcast. #bewhoyouareandsettheworldonfire

Please leave a nice review on Amazon after you read!
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Episode 19: Mary Kloska on the Russian Spirituality of Poustinik (Hermit), Strannik (Pilgrim), Uridivoy (Holy Fool) and Staretz (Wise Elder)

One of my very best!! 😇 Just because I recorded it in my hermitage. 🏡

My podcast this week is on the RUSSIAN SPIRITUALITY of the Poustinik (HERMIT), Strannik (PILGRIM), Urodivoy (HOLY FOOL) and Staretz (WISE ELDER.)

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In this episode, I explain the Eastern Church's notion of living as a hermit, a pilgrim, a holy fool and a wise elder. Drawing deeply from Russian spirituality specifically, I explain what it means in one's heart to withdraw from the world as a hermit, to travel the earth as a pilgrim, to make up in reparation for Christ's foolishness of the Cross and to be filled with the wisdom of God as a spiritual elder/guide for others, regardless of one's age. Hopefully, I inspire people to take each of these four ideas and to find them in one's noraml, daily life as a Christian.
#poustinia #hermit #russianhermit #strannik #pilgrim #godspilgrim #wayofthecrucified
#urodivoy #holyfools #saints #russianspirituality #staretz #wiseones #elders #wisdomofgod

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Video:  

Just Mary's Fiat Life

Next Week's podcast will be about my work in Africa with orphans... here's a blog I wrote a few weeks before I left for africa 10 years ago:

Originally published: SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 2010

Just Mary's 'Fiat' Life...

Mother Teresa once said: “I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one." 
This is my problem.
This precisely is my problem in life. I cannot love a 'group' of people. I must love lots of individuals -all the individuals, in fact, in the whole world. That is who Jesus has placed before me to love.

I am often overwhelmed by this beautiful quote of Mother Teresa's. And it is because at the same time of discovering its truth in life, I also discovered the power of individual prayer for people. When's the last time you fathomed in awe over the power of prayer for a soul? When God lifts the dark veil that covers my eyes in life for just a moment, sometimes I'm amazed at the power that even one prayer prayed with the heart for another human being can be in changing their life forever. Often the answer to such a prayer comes many years after the words were whispered in one's heart -but suddenly, one day, without great explanation -the person's life just changes. Bam! The power of grace -stored up by our Wise Father in Heaven -to be used for another at the precise time He knows the individual will reap the greatest benefits from those graces. God is truly amazing in this. He knows how to squeeze the best profit out of each 'investment' of prayer we give to Him. And as I watch in wonder how even 'careless prayers' I prayed many years ago are answered today, it fills me with a feeling of greater responsibility to truly pray for all those I encounter on my road in life. Take a guy I was 'in love' with in high school. I 'prayed' for him so that he would ask me out. He never did -but 15 years later I hear how others in his family left the Church and he fell into drugs -but then somehow, seemingly miraculously, he changed his life and became a very faithful Catholic. Hidden grace -I like to think it was God's answer to my 'silly prayers' -He never wastes them, of course. There are so many examples I see like this. Take Tom -no one liked him -all he did was cause problems to his girlfriend's family -and so they prayed he would just go away. Instead, he went through this amazing conversion and is today the ideal husband, father and son-in-law. All because of prayer -prayer that God heard and answered in His Own wise way.

When I see such sharp answers to prayers, it makes me wonder what would happen to the kid I saw on the street last week digging through trash cans (yes, right here in Elkhart) if I started praying daily for him. Had anyone ever prayed for him? Where would he be in 15 years if I committed to praying for his soul daily? What difference would it make in his life? Such things plague me with a great feeling of overwhelmingness -for if individual love and prayers are so powerful, how could I ever possibly find enough time to pray for each person in the world in a specific way?

Now, some might argue with me, "God only expects you to help those He places before you." And in theory maybe they are right. But what about all those voices I hear in my heart -those He places before the eyes of my soul? That's an awful lot of people. And I consider each one of them 'family.' You can't love the masses, just individuals, Mother Teresa wisely said. And yet, my struggle comes in my literal taking of the Gospel and all Jesus taught to us. I'll illustrate my point with a story. I remember once in Russia giving my winter coat to a girl on the street. The priest with me corrected me, saying I could not just give all my things away or I would have nothing left. But my argument was thus: what if it was my little sister Kathy freezing while we walked home from Church? Wouldn't even he give his coat to her (since she was my little sister)? He fell into my trap and said, 'yes.' Ahhha! Well, If I truly am called to love each person in the world as my brother and sister in Christ -and if by living my life consecrated as Jesus' spouse I truly see all the souls in the world as my 'spiritual children' with Him -then wasn't I MANDATED to treat this homeless girl on the street the same way I would treat Kathy? And that problem is precisely my problem in loving and prayer. How many people suffer just because they don't have a big sister to sit up at night and intercede for them before God? And so my struggle continues...

Considering all this, I was quite excited when Jesus once again showed me a 'way out' of my struggle. Of course I can (and I do) pray for 'all people with cancer' when I prayed for Bobby. But there is another way I can 'reach all people' even being so tiny and incapable myself. Its through the concept of us the Church being one body in Christ. I don't have to touch each person in the world -if I can just set one person on fire the ripple effect can (I hope with the grace of prayer) take place. I can set one person on fire in Russia and then they can set Russia on fire as I move on to Germany. In the Office of Readings this week I understood the 'strategy of God' in my life and vocation more clearly. St. Theodoret of Cyr wrote:

"When a shepherd sees that his sheep have scattered, he keeps one of them under his control and leads it to the pastures he chooses, and thus he draws the other sheep back to him by means of this one."

All I have to do is love God profoundly wherever He places me, and He will lead others back to Himself simply through my being faithful to Him. All I have to do is love one person in the places I am sent, and He will touch and transform that entire country, all people suffering in the same way, through that one who I touched. If I can love a woman who had an abortion, then she can come to know Jesus more profoundly -and then Jesus will use her to convert and help heal others who had abortions (He often uses our wounds to do His greatest work) and in that way I am touching 'all of them' just by loving that one. Isn't Jesus beautiful in the way He unites us in His work?

And so, with that being said, Jesus is sending me once again on a pilgrim journey throughout the world. I already shared the story about 'Tanzania' with you all. I will be leaving again Sept. 7th to fly through Rome to Moshi (ironically I will be touching down in Etheopia and Kenya on my way -two more opportunities to 'touch souls' through prayer and simple love in my short stays in the airport in those countries). I will be staying at the Upendo Children's Home with the Missionary Sisters of the Most Precious Blood. Then from October 10-November 7th I'll be visiting some sister friends in Vladivostok. I've never been there, but that is where the American Maryknoll priests have their mission. Then I will be traveling to Cape Town, South Africa where I will be spending a month with the Pallotine Sisters who work with orphans/AIDS babies at their St. Joseph's Home. And then for December I will be flying over to East London, South Africa to spend my last month at Open Arms (an orphan home especially for AIDS children founded and run by a former Notre Dame Baseball player -cool story to read if you rummage through the webpage). I have to fly back through Poland -so I rerouted my flight from Warsaw to Wroclaw so I can see the Przybylos for 5 days before I land back state-side on January 10th.

My hope with this trip is to simply love Jesus among these people -and to share this love He showers on me when I beg Him to with the world. I ask for your prayers for me during this time I am 'planting His seeds' of Love, and 'stealing His sheep' back to His Heart. Such travels are my cross -and only with your prayer can His power of Love conquer my weakness.

But please don't worry about me -He carries me, and I'm already living totally for Him in heaven (this life is just a mirage compared to eternity).

Please also pray that I can be faithful to the love and work He has for me in this world. If I miss just one sheep -than the ripple effect of 'missed grace' passed forward could be devastating. Love makes my desire to serve Jesus and the world radically huge. But Love also makes me realize that alone I can do nothing -and so I must let go of all control and entrust all those souls I love into His great wounded Hands of Mercy.

And so I pray:

Jesus, be our Savior.

And please fill in the holes we leave by the weakness in our lives. Please touch and make others' lives better even in spite of our great mistakes.

May Your Love perfect all! Amen. +

Talk to Polish Youth about God's Love and Giving Up the World for Him -September 3, 2005 (Both English and Polish)

Coś dla moich polskich przyjaciół!!
Something for my Polish friends!!

ENGLISH: This is a spiritual talk that I gave to a group of Polish youth at a retreat center in Babliniec, Poland about the Love that God has for them. It was on September 3, 2005 and is translated by Hania Przybylo. You can listen to this both in my English and Hania's Polish.

POLSKI: To duchowe przemówienie, które wygłosiłem grupie polskiej młodzieży w ośrodku rekolekcyjnego w Bablińcu, Polska o Miłości, jaką Bóg dla nich ma. Został on przetłumaczony 3 września 2005 roku przez Hanię Przybylo. Można to posłuchać zarówno w moim języku angielskim, jak i po polsku Hania.

ENGLISH: This is from 15 years ago, when I was speaking to a group of youth in Poland about the power of love, of God's love and especially God's love for each of our souls. I was hoping to inspire them to give up all in this world in order to receive the totality of the depths of Jesus' Love. Towards the end I tell a beautiful story about my youngest brother JOHNNY, who we adopted, who was killed in a car accident -and his encounter with God's love. My very close friend Hania Przybylo translated it for me since I still at that time did not speak Polish. I pray it can touch many of your hearts. Please, listen and share!!

POLSKI: To jest od 15 lat temu, kiedy mówiłem do grupy młodzieży w Polsce o mocy miłości, miłości Bożej, a zwłaszcza bożej miłości do każdej z naszych dusz. Miałem nadzieję, że zainspiruję ich do rezygnacji z tego wszystkiego na tym świecie, aby otrzymać całość głębi Miłości Jezusa. Pod koniec opowiadam piękną historię o moim bracie yougest, który adoptowaliśmy, który zginął w wypadku samochodowym - i jego spotkanie z miłością Boga. Moja bardzo bliska przyjaciółka Hania Przybylo przetłumaczyła mi to, ponieważ jeszcze wtedy nie mówiłam po polsku. Modlę się, aby dotknąć wielu waszych serc. Proszę, słuchać i dzielić!!

Episode 18: Mary Kloska on God's Gift of Sleep

My program this week is on GOD'S GIFT OF SLEEP. 

I hope that you enjoy!

Title: God’s Gift of Sleep
Description: In this episode, Mary speaks about the theology of sleep in Scripture. She talks about how the gift of sleep, when offered to God, can be a prayer and a place of union with Him. She discusses the places in Scripture where God spoke to people in dreams. And she includes advice from the Saints as to how we should fall asleep at night -with a Bible and a cross in our hands, praying the rosary. She also speaks about Christ's command that we rest and how holy sleep is an important part of life. 

"Unless the LORD build the house, they labor in vain who build.

Unless the LORD guard the city, in vain does the guard keep watch. 

It is vain for you to rise early and put off your rest at night, To eat bread earned by hard toil

—  all this God gives to his beloved in sleep." -Psalm 127:1-2

Two Days Later My Mustard Seeds Are Growing

Wow. These are my mustard seeds from my post 2 days ago! I planted three because I doubted any would take. I guess they are symbolic of the three books I have in cue to publish. Come Holy Spirit!