Making people...

Keep the cape. I'll make people.

Well, help, anyway. - http://www.billpowellisalive.com/2006/01/joseph-chesterton-powell-and-superman/

I'm not going to presume to point out that society as a whole has given reproduction a bad rap. It's pretty obvious everywhere you look, everything you hear from the talking heads, even the looks on peoples faces when you say, "Party of 8," to the hostess at Friendly's.

So many people medicate to sterilize themselves, to sterilize their own marriages even! Children are not seen as a gift, they are seen as a mere commodity. Maybe it isn't that black and white. Sometimes sweeping generalizations are not appropriate. But how can something be seen as a gift when you only allow that gift to be received on your own terms? Seems kind of like a downer.

I dunno, I wish I could understand what is going through someones head when they are pumping themselves full of these synthetic horomones in order to disrupt something that is perfectly healthy and natural. We have this amazing ability to bring a new soul into this world, wouldn't we treat that part of ourselves with a little more respect? I think that it is so easy to take that for granted. How many people go and get fertility treatments in order to regain this power? This super power! It really is a super power. Just because everyone else has the parts to do it, doesn't make it any less of an amazing thing.



My husband and I can make people, and so can you. :)

A young girls romance...

I know that there are critics of the Therese movie, but I still cry when I watch it.



For a few years now, I have had a special place for The Little Flower in my heart. My husband and I both love her very much. We met on her feast day, October 1st. She has made her presence known in our lives many times. Once, when I had finished reading The Story of a Soul, a beautiful red rose grew in front of my home in Maine, after we had had a frost.

St Therese, help me to be more like you, simple, small, and little. Help me to be a good wife, and someday, a good and loving mother. Amen.

A day in the life, of a Student

Mad props to Joshua Houde on this one.
One of my friends brothers made a wicked funny video. Its about Franciscan University students pursuing eachother and the awkwardness that follows...

Life, meet Devotion

Let me start off saying how blessed I am to have married a man with such an awesome library. It is going to take a while to read all of his...er...our books, because I think I want to read about 97% of them.

One book that I have been gobbling up is Thy Will Be Done by St. Francis de Sales. The book consists of letters he wrote as a spiritual director to various people. I love these letters, because they are so timeless. What I mean is, despite the fact they were written 400+ years ago, it doesn't make the spiritual direction given in these letters obsolete. When I read them, I feel as though he could have been writing to me! This book has helped me immensely to work harder at being better in my day to day life.

I had felt a little lost after the frawkus of the wedding and our move had settled down. Here I am, in a new state, far away from everything I've ever known. Someone is bound to feel a little displaced in that situation. I spent a lot of time surfing the web while Sean was working, otherwise wasting a lot of precious time that I could have used for far more fruitful purposes.

By and large, I stumbled across St. Francis de Sales book mentioned above. I couldn't and still can't stop reading it. He urges everyone, in all walks and vocations in life to live devoutly. I think that I have the tendency to go through my day and not talking time to spend time with our Lord. How foolish! Is there really any other way to live our daily life? How much happiness are we forfeiting when we neglect to give our day and the tasks that go with it to the Lord? Is it so lofty a goal to live a truely devout life? I think that daily drugdery is no excuse for letting my prayer life fall to the wayside. It seems kind of silly really. If I am to live a normal life as a housewife, why should I waste the precious time I have been given by becoming "busy" with daily chores of running a household? These are wonderful opportunities to offer every little thing I do up for the glory of God!

Those who are simply good people walk in the way of God; but the devout run, and when they are very devout they fly. - St. Francis de Sales

Blogging

I am having loads of trouble with this blogging thing. I cannot seem to figure out what a meaningful post would contain. I feel like if I were to type out an entry, it would be nothing more than my random thought pattern spewed onto this massive public billboard of a concept we call a blog. I suppose most people would post articles and comment on them, muse about the higher spiritual things in life, or talk about their day. My guess would be that the reason I am having so much trouble is because I want my posts to be something unique.

Oh well, I think I'm going to go back to drinking my day-old coffee. (though I could wait for my husband's batch to be ready. Waste not...etc)

New blog

Hello, I just started this blog on a whim, so I don't have anything interesting to post as of now, but I'm sure something will come up.

Peace