Rochelle Hanson: The Smile Song.

You can't help but smile with this song
based on this poem Sr. Agnes memorized and shared with us.

Smile!

Smiling is infectious, You catch it like the flu,
When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling, too.

I passed around the corner, and someone saw my grin.
When he smiled I realized, I’d passed it on to him.

I thought about that smile, then I realized its worth,
A single smile, just like mine, could travel round the earth.

So, if you feel a smile begin, don’t leave it undetected
Let’s start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

© by Karen McLendon-Laumann

Crazy for Cookies in Toronto

Most know my passion for cookies.  Haven't tried this place, but how bad could it be?

http://www.moomilkbar.ca/#the-bakery

Freedom or Predestination

The greatest gift that God gives us is freedom.  Without true freedom, and I mean true freedom as God defines it, there is no love.  The greater the freedom the greater the opportunity for love.  God is not moving all the pieces so that it turns out a certain way.  He is entering into our lives, with our free choices and in that freedom His plan for our Salvation is unfolding.  Yes He has a plan, but we are pawns but collaborators.  Some even go so far as to say co-creators.  His plan will come about through us, with our cooperation.  He sets us free, and then uses the attraction of love to draw us to Him.  He has a plan, and we all have an irreplaceable role in that plan, but we are free to cooperate with Him or not.  Not only that but nothing is impossible for God.  That includes working through our freedom.  Predestination removes freedom, love and relationship with God from the equation.  He has adopted us as His children.