I've been living on SSDI for the past 25 years because of my disability, bipolar disorder.
I have always worked part-time.
For the last 15 years, I was taking care of my dad at home until he passed last year.
He paid me $500/month for my efforts. We had a very good relationship.
Life was easier financially because I was living at home.
Now that I am on my own in an apartment, it is a little tougher to get along money-wise.
I've had a hard time finding employment other than DoorDash, which helps but barely.
I've been reading a book about the great 20th-century Franciscan friar Padre Pio.
He had a great following while he was alive and was purported to have worked miracles for people, particularly in the confessional.
I have to confess my discouragement and lack of faith right now regarding my employment situation.
I just stopped by a local shrine run by Franciscans, and they had a portrait of Saint Padre Pio on the wall with small votive candles in front of it and a kneeler.
I put a dollar in the box and lit two of them. I bowed my head and confessed my discouragement and asked that he intercede with Our Lord Jesus Christ to grant me this grace of healthy employment to ease my financial situation.
I will finish the book I am reading and continue to look to Our Lord for the grace and help that only he can bestow.
Through Him all good things come.
Lord, hear my prayer.
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