Comments on: Saturday 7/27/19 Getting rid of the weeds https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-7-27-19-getting-rid-of-the-weeds/ DAILY MASS READINGS AND REFLECTIONS @ ACATHOLIC.ORG Sun, 28 Jul 2019 01:54:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: A https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-7-27-19-getting-rid-of-the-weeds/#comment-15986 Sun, 28 Jul 2019 01:54:14 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=67890#comment-15986 Thank you, Julie! I always knew that beneath your grit and sarcasm, you are very sensitive. Your best reflection to date! I was touched and thought it fit poignantly with the parenting struggle I am experiencing.

I knew that the Holy Spirit meant for me to read this reflection today after an especially difficult day. I have to remember to see past the weeds, and help cultivate the plant I planted.

Poignantly (no coincidences, as John Ciribassi says), as soon as I finished reading your reflection and knew the Holy Spirit meant for me to read it and understand its application in my life, fireworks went off. Literal fireworks from a nearby festival this evening. The Lord really emphasized the point in your last paragraph.

Thank you, again, and may God bless you and your family. And if you have found the elixir for patience, please let me know.

]]> By: Catherine https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-7-27-19-getting-rid-of-the-weeds/#comment-15984 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 21:46:52 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=67890#comment-15984 Thank you for this beautiful reflection. My son also has asperger syndrome but like you I believe that God made us the way we are and loves us as we are.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-7-27-19-getting-rid-of-the-weeds/#comment-15982 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 20:19:08 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=67890#comment-15982 Ditto to everything said above! Very touching and inspiring…thank God for such a loving Mom and I’m sure a whole family of love!

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-7-27-19-getting-rid-of-the-weeds/#comment-15981 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 19:35:26 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=67890#comment-15981 Julie — I am touched by your reflection. Thank you for sharing such a personal story that is beautifully woven into today’s Gospel reading. May the good Lord continue to bless you and your family — especially your youngest son.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-7-27-19-getting-rid-of-the-weeds/#comment-15980 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:44:21 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=67890#comment-15980 Thanks for that touching reflection Julie.

]]> By: Julie https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-7-27-19-getting-rid-of-the-weeds/#comment-15979 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:23:40 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=67890#comment-15979 Karen….just remember…God believes in him. I know a lot of AS kids like your son and I even asked my son one time how he was sure there was a God. His answer? “Just look around you.”

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-7-27-19-getting-rid-of-the-weeds/#comment-15978 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:04:50 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=67890#comment-15978 Your last sentence was beautiful and applicable to all of us.

]]> By: Karen A Nelson https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-7-27-19-getting-rid-of-the-weeds/#comment-15977 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 12:50:06 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=67890#comment-15977 Julie,
I needed this today. I have an adult son with Asperger’s and I know where you are coming from. Unfortunately, my son doesn’t believe in God and it pains me and I pray for his conversion every day. I will continue to pray and hoping God will pull the weeds away, open his mind and heart and have gentle mercy on him. I also share in his pain that he can’t find a female companion. First dates he can find but rarely do they agree to a second. Maybe he’s wearing the Infinity Gaunlet he begged me to buy him and he’s scaring them away ?.

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