We all need friends....especially saintly ones!

While rifling through my jewelry box this morning I found a little box of my grandma's jewelry. These were some "junk" things she had given me years and years ago. I decided to take a peak as I had not opened this little box in a long, long time. Her ID bracelet was there, old and tarnished. There was a stick-pin that I will never wear. There was a little box with a bar of soap in it, a souvenir from a trip to Germany. There was a pendant with a broken chain that I had never paid any attention to before. Wait....hold on.....I had never taken a close look at the pendant. I could not believe my eyes! This is what I saw!








It is tiny and I had to use a magnifying glass to be sure that it truly was St. Gerard. I put a new jump ring on it and put it on a different chain and I am wearing it right now!

My grandma had 9 healthy pregnancies. Her 9 children survived her and my grandpa. 8 of them went on to marry and have children and grand-children of their own. Grandpa told me when we first found out we were infertile that Grandma prayed to St. Gerard every night for the health and safety of her children. He said maybe it would help us, too.


I found this today for a reason. Tonight we have a meeting in our home with our case worker. She is bringing us the file of a 2 year old boy. I know Grandma will in attendance at this meeting and she'll be cheering us on. Hopefully she'll have a word with St. Gerard on our behalf, too. They seem to be good friends.....