Hello 2nd July 2024 - 100 (One Hundred) months on - Oh, Dearest Mum Bathqyomo Marine Khoury-Issa ???? ??????? ??? ?????? ???????

Hello everyone on this Tuesday the 2nd of July 2024 - as I commemorate 100 (one hundred months on the eternal sleep of my Mum -

Oh, Dearest Mum Bathqyomo Marine Khoury-Issa

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Today, Tuesday the 2nd of July 2024, on the eve of the feast of St Thomas ??? ?????. I come again to commemorate 100 months since my Mum's eternal sleep - we miss you Mum very dearly. May God repose your soul Oh Mum.

Indeed, it has been a journey for the last 100 months - and prayers were strengthening me throughout since that Wednesday afternoon 2nd March 2016, thus, I was taught by Mum never to stop praying, and this month, I found this short prayer that would assist:

Never stop praying

Prayer, is for every moment of our life not just for times of suffering but also for JOY.

Prayer is where we meet God in a genuine conversation.

So THANK YOU GOD for all what I thought would be “problems” that turned into blessings. Amen.

In addition, this month, I read that we need not to forget two people in our lives, (i.e., Our Father and our Mother:

Furthermore, we need to always appreciate those who love us, help those who need us and most importantly forgive those who hurt us.

Allow me today to commence this article with this simple prayer seeking strength from Our Lord, Saviour and God Jesus Christ:

Morning prayer

Heavenly Father, I come before YOU in gratitude for this new day, I surrender my heart, mind, and spirit to YOUR loving care.

Grant me wisdom, discernment, and strength for the challenges ahead.?

Fill me with YOUR peace that surpasses all understanding.

Bless my loved ones, protect them, and draw them closer to YOU.

Use me as a vessel of YOUR love and light, that I may bring joy and hope to those around me.

Order my steps according to YOUR will and shower me with YOUR abundant blessings.

In Jesus’ name, I pray.

Amen.

Dear readers, thank you for opting to check this article, and I hope that you always maintain faith, hope, and love, the three that St. Paul told us about in 1 Corinthians 13:13

Whereas:

Faith makes everything possible

Hope makes everything work.

Love makes everything beautiful.

May you have all the three as you begin each day.

Hope July brings you love, peace, clarity, healing, strength, happiness, prosperity, abundance, opportunity and understanding,

Indeed, with God's grace we can have all these, thus, we thank God for the new day in our lives, and pray:

Our most gracious, kind loving heavenly Father, thank YOU so much for the gift of life. Today,

I choose not to worry about the things I cannot control.

I choose not to get carried away by negative thoughts.

I choose to be fully dependent on YOU.

I choose to trust YOU.

Because I believe that YOU will never fail me.

LORD, bless my plans today and protect me and my whole family wherever we go, and repose the souls of those who departed before us. Amen.

Indeed, and as it was the case whenever we gather at the backyard that Mum would be reading from the Holy Bible, thus, I chose two verses today, as if I am sitting with Mum contemplating in the Holy Bible verses:

Mum, you always taught us to take refuge in God the Almighty as you know that whoever calls the name of the LORD will be saved as we are taught by St. Paul in his Epistle to the Romans:

Mum, you always encouraged us to ask God for whatever we need as she taught us through the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew from which comes the following verse:

Mum, through the last six articles of #02JAN2024, #02FEB2024, #02MAR2024, #02APR2024, #02MAY2024 and #02JUN2024 I shared with you about the 2024 new initiative, and thank God, with God's grace the initiative continues and we are now in Chapter twenty-three of the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. I continue to use images from your garden 'Marine's garden'. This is today's image

In the usual manner, here is the image that was used a cover for the whole month of June 2024 and the whole month's verses and images can be reached through this link:

Certainly, I continue to thank God the Almighty for giving me the strength to continue throughout the month, with the daily verses featuring images from Marine's garden, praying that I continue to be supported and strengthened to continue with this initiative. God hears my prayers.

Moreover, simultaneously, I continue to share prayers on daily basis, and there were several occasions for our beloved church. These for the month of June 2024 can be reached on this link .

Here is the first image of these prayers collection:

Now, and as I conclude this entry with this beautiful Syriac hymn that was shared earlier, received from Touma:

Now, I would conclude with simple prayer that I read this month:

Lord Jesus, You are wise and good in all things.

Thank YOU for creating both work and rest as a blessing.

Teach me to rest regularly and to receive it as the gift YOU made it to be.

I need wisdom and faith to do this.

Amen.

As I would always say, again, and again and again and from a heart filled with gratitude I continue to be very thankful and extremely grateful to God the Almighty who honored me and blessed me to be the daughter of Bathqyomo Marine Khoury-Issa, something I am extremely very proud of ... Oh Mum... miss you very dearly... Oh Mum...

Now, thank you all for taking the time to go through this corner/article.

On behalf of the Issa Family

Your Eldest daughter

Theodora Issa

PS: Theodora acknowledges the sources used in coming up with this entry including the Issa Family archives for Mum's image shared in this entry, also some collected beautiful flowers, trees and other plants in the garden images that Theodora photographed this month or from the archives. Also, Lamsa Holy Bible, and the Department of Syriac Studies.