Post by Serial Canonizer on Aug 10, 2016 23:39:31 GMT
In college she was averaging a 4.0 and working full time in a nursing home. She had a boyfriend in another area, and she jogged every morning and took karate classes. She was terrified of the dark. She never went anywhere alone. Not until the night of April 17. It was mid-term finals and she'd learned of a new job opening for dorm advisors. Always looking for a chance to make more money to support herself, and being preoccupied with finals, she took a rare chance--one that cost her very life. At 8 pm she took a load of clothes to the campus laundry, then walked to the advisor's meeting by herself. It was dark, but the campus was hopping with students.
The meeting ended at 9, and she'd planned to meet a friend to see a German film. The friend finally went alone when Susan never showed. Susan was last seen leaving the advisor's meeting. Investigators found only her skull as they excavated Taylor Mountain.
She was one of 6 children, and worked 2 full-time jobs 7 days a week the summer before her freshman year, to pay for tuition. She was an extremely shy but brilliant girl with ambitions to go into medicine. May her dreams come true, and she certainly knows a thing or two about spiritual medicine for she has treated my wounds a few times.
Sometimes when praying to her I'd have visions of a spider or spiderwoman, so when I see spiders or arachnid artwork popping up, Im reminded of her and sometimes it is clear she is trying to get my
attention.
I consider her an attorney. When I went before the Judge, she "ran court". And when I go before the just judge on the last day, she shall go before his throne and plead on my behalf. Her intercession often stops him from punishing me as I deserve.
This song just came in jail:
Blessings, peace, and exaltation be upon you Sue! please give me a mind and heart like yours...make me an obedient instrument. You were an extremely hard-worker and good student. Please help us sinners to develop good habits of discipline, work, study, prayer, and penance. Please help me with my short attention span, emotional disturbances, and the fits of anger and blasphemy toward God. Please help me understand why he chooses to leave this world so sick, confused, and wicked. Let me know what I'm supposed to do about it.
Please help me to shut up, still the mind, surrender, and not seek my will or let it get in the way of my maker. Purge me of my desires and replace them with yours! Make of me your instrument. May we be one in mind, heart, and will, that I may obey you and make you happy...always... In Jesus name, Amen! 
I identify her sometimes with Cherries because on the days each month I set together in jail as her feast day (Day especially devoted to her in my prayers and writings) other inmates would hand me a cherry flavored jolly rancher or Now-and-later, or I'd find fiver or so cherry flavored wrappers together or near my cell. I think it is related to God's call for us to bear good fruit but also that nature speaks a sermon to us and there is much sweetness that was clearly designed for our taste-buds and it is to teach us about the sweetness and beauty of God and the next life. The distasteful and ugly things on earth are also to teach us that this isn't our home and we should long for the next life and not be very attached to this one (if tomorrow isn't your last day, eventually it will be).
And yes, a cherry now-and-later showed up the day I made this memorial...
