Fate Determined by Faith

Today has been a day filled with much inspiration,

From the Saint Chapelle’s tear-invoking beauty, full of sacredness, color, and peace.

To Concierge’s map hunting for the virtual “treasure”, where those walls once confined Marie Antoinette in her final days. Such a stark contrast, to where you can now buy chocolates with her face on them and the chocolate wrappers are quite literally bejeweled.

Followed by the Crypte Archeologique museum that exhibits ancient parts of Paris that were once used to barricade it from “Barbaric’s”, and they so happened to bring you along a snippet of the history of their neighbor, the great Notre Dame church. Once popularly viewed as an eye sore, especially after damage from the French Revolution and old “Gothic” structures was hoped to be torn down by the people. That is until Víctor Hugo, whom’s tomb I visited in the Pantheon just yesterday, created the infamous story of “Hunchback of Notre Dame”. This transforming story flipped the views of the population to see the church as a beautiful piece of history and eventually was approved for restoration plans.

It’s funny, they mention in one of the plaques that the people in that time looked for romanticism, likely after all the turmoil they’d been through. It was possibly seen as something light and somewhat synonymous to hope. I feel like (atleast myself) I definitely have become more preferential to romanticism, or maybe I’ve just always been that way?

Fast forward to the present time, as I sit here in the audience of Lohengrin (during the second intermission), feeling moved from the performance, harmonic balance of their melodic voices, and the overall plot of the story.

What I love about it, and I’m finding that it is in keeping with the theme today. Fate that is influenced by Faith.

I also saw a video today of Jim Carrey talking about how his grade school teacher told the class that whenever she wants something, she will pray and offer something in return.

He did that, because he really wanted a bike, and weeks later he came home to a new bike for him. His family couldn’t afford that but they said his friend had submitted him in a raffle and hadn’t told him and he’d won.

Then he said you have to be open to the universe bringing what you want, because it might not always be in the way you see it.

I tried that today. I said help me get this dress zipped up and get an Uber ordered and on time to the opera in exchange for a rosary. And at first, the dress didn’t zip and even neighbor tried and it didn’t. So I got downstairs and Uber wasn’t working. So I started praying the rosary while waiting for Uber to work. Another neighbors comes across my path and she is able to get it zipped up. I go to the corner and as soon as I finish praying the rosary, the Uber shows up like a minute later. It also helped calm my nerves. Then I made it with a few minutes to spare but made it before they closed the doors!!

All in all, prayers work. AND to add to that, I was having a mini nose panic attack and I was able to pray Hail Mary and look at a point and focus on it and it went away!! Miraculous!!!

Much Love,

Cindy