Gods Love

Gods Love
By littlepage1

God loves us all, Even if we fall,
God loves each of us, Even if we do not trust.
We can not imagine how much he cares, For the people everywhere,
Sometimes we sin, And turn away from him,
But God loves us all, Even if we fall.

So, Miss California says “I think that I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense to anyone out there, but that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think that it should be, between a man and a woman.” and she gets hosed by the judges.

The interesting part is that now she’s the new hero of evangelicalism. She’s speaking at graduations. She’s working on a book deal. She’s being praised by the Alabama state legislature (hey, it’s something).

Liberty University put out a press release that said, in part:

Miss California, Carrie Prejean will be in Lynchburg today to encourage thousands of Liberty University students to stand up for their faith, as she did recently at the Miss USA Pageant.

Now, here’s the part I don’t get: Where did she stand up for her faith?

She says nothing about faith. She says, essentially, that she thinks one way because that’s what she has been told all her life. That’s not standing up for her faith. That’s a conditioned response about a political stance. There’s no faith involved. She even calls “no offense” to make it more palatable.

Are we really so incredibly short of heroes that this lady is next in line?

I am so disappointed in the state of Christianity in general. How do you continue to belong to something in which the vast majority is something that you don’t want to have anything to do with? Yeah, I know all the discussion points that will be raised in response to that question, but it makes me sit down and wonder if Christianity is really a good thing for the world, when THIS is what “Christianity” is to most of the world? And if there’s a small part of “Christianity” that is so good for the world, how do we distinguish it from this dreck? And how do we not be overwhelmed in the process? And where are the lightning strikes when you really want ‘em?

“And for that, on this first Easter day where Church Lady is not in a chair or a pew, I am so grateful. I am at peace.”

A special thanks to Amy for sparking this post.

My Friend who is turning 18 soon has said she is not answering “What are you going to be next year?” or “What do you want to be when you grow up?” questions. She says that you never ask an adult “Where are you planning to work next year?” or “What do you think you’ll be doing 5 or 6 years from now?”, so she doesn’t answer those type of questions anymore. Granted we all have our dreams of what we might like to be, but for some people, their dream is staying home and having 10 kids. People look at you funny when you say that though.

My dreams have changed. When I was about 8 or 9 I wanted to be a Veterinarian, except I found out I was allergic to cats and dogs. Then I wanted to be a zoo keeper, until I found out all they basically do is shovel droppings. When I was 10 ’til I was 12, I wanted to be a writer. I would write a story that would shake the earth. That was until I found out that unless your a very popular writer (which usually means you write about things that are not very nice) you usually don’t make a lot of money. Now I am not sure. Maybe I will be a lawyer, but I might find a man I love and marry him and have kids and stay at home. I don’t know, and the older I get the less certain the future seems, and the less certain I am that things will go MY way.

Slow blog month. Too busy getting outside with the neighbourhood kids after a long winter.

“If you can’t say sumpin’ nice. don’t say nutton’ at all.”
-Thumper the Rabbit from Bambi

LittlePage4, during a discussion of what “stubble” and “five o’clock shadow” are: “You mean some men shave every day?!?!!?”

I think he’s seen me shave fewer than 20 times in his life.

Truly, in many a stumbling child there is GREAT poetry in motion, but not at all in the way that the child THINKS there is! So it is with God and ourselves. Relax, therefore, and rejoice! Again I say, rejoice! Our great and merciful God flat out delights in our efforts and knows from the start that we shall be far more like funny home videos than the best and most tasteful films ever produced. Funny how we often lack the humility to see that ourselves! If we seek to gain it, Satan, who loves to see us despondent and discouraged, will be trounced but good.

It is our efforts which delight God, not our results. He knows that the results we seek are far beyond many of us. The more clearly we come to know that, the more adequate our sense of our own abject poverty of skills, the greater our peace shall be. And in that peace we shall find God, the loving parent on Whose long-suffering insteps we tiptoe and dance, in Whose tender arms we swoon like children dreaming of a grand ballroom with mirrors!

Jerome OSB
St Mary’s Monastery

Apparently the “Contact Us” form was broken. I registered about a dozen hits to that page in the last couple of days, but no messages came through.

I found a problem with my webhost that needed fixing, and now the page works.

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MrsPages recently gave 2 very well received seminars at our local Homseschool Association conference. In order to let people just sit and listen and not have to worry about taking notes, we promised to post the information from her presentation here.

The originals were in OpenOffice format, and were quite large, so here the are in PDF format:

I Am, I Can, I Ought, I Will: The Ideas of Charlotte Mason

Organizing The Chaos

We were touched by the number of people who were grateful to get information about Charlotte Mason, and the personal stories of people who also struggle with home organization were very moving.

Thank you to those who attended and made the effort worthwhile.

If you were there, please let us know you were here by commenting!

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