Simply Splendid Gift Baskets Blog

• Good Counsel Memorial Mural
  The 40 ft x 23 ft Prayer Mural of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Patroness of the Americas and the Unborn, will be hand-painted on the side of the Good Counsel home for homeless mothers in the South Bronx similar to this one at the friary of the Franciscan Friars for the Renewal. Your prayer intentions will be placed with the Franciscan Friars for the Renewal, under the spiritual leadership of Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR, and in the Chapel of the Good Counsel home in the South Bronx, NY.
• Shrine of the Holy Innocents/Divine Mercy
  Our God is a God of Mercy who cares for our needs from the moment of conception. The Shrine of the Holy Innocents will honor the memory of the souls of all children whose lives have been lost, and it will provide a sacred place of prayer and healing for parents and others who have been touched by the loss of a child.
• A Cry Without a Voice
  Mothers are honoring and remember their aborted children through selecting a pair of baby shoes and attaching a card of commemoration
• Hope Memorial
  The Hope Monument is a 1 1/8 life-size bronze sculpture standing 60" high. It depicts Jesus' love for us and the hope He brings to us. Shown here in the Garden of Hope located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
• National Memorial for the Unborn
  Across our nation, millions of women and men experience an unresolved and often undefined grief, associated with the loss of a child to abortion. This pain often increases with time and life changes. The Memorial features a fifty foot granite "Wall of Names" which holds small brass plates with words of remembrance placed by mothers, fathers, and other family members from all over the country. The Memorial also includes the original painting "I Will Hold You In Heaven", historical markers, and a Remembrance Garden

By surrendering, we detach from the external world and find God within. No longer are we a victim of perceptions. One then begins to notice that how we perceive the external relates to how we are feeling inside. We soon reach a balancing point, and we then realize that we don’t have to just feel that which is outside but to change our focal point inside. By shifting inner perception, then we encounter something totally new externally. We have changed disguises, and we are brand new in the Moment. The costume is then fully realized, and it evaporates from our form. What shall I try on today for size. Perhaps it will be the universe its self.