Back to More Insightful Posts

Thank goodness the window decision was made!  Now I can go back to posting more interesting and insightful blogs!

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In case anyone is wondering…but you probably aren’t

…Introduction to the Devout Life is fine for “sitting in the 1380 am booth at the fair” reading.  HOWEVER, it is terrible “take the kids to the pool” reading!  I read a terrible hokey “Christian romance” novel at the pool last year.  It was really a waste of paper, but I got it free in the [...]

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Visit to the Catholic Action Center

The girls and I went down to the Catholic Action Center shelter today to serve lunch.  We were going as part of the St. Joseph Homeschoolers group, but ended up being one of only two families to come.    I don’t know why there wasn’t more participation than that, however, we didn’t really need [...]

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Sunday was a strange day

As the title of this post suggests, Sunday felt like a really strange day for me.
It started “normal.”  Sunday is the ONE day of the week that I get up early.   So, I got up.  Got dressed.  Even put on a tiny bit of make-up.  (OK- so maybe the makeup is what made it strange…but [...]

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Another thought on baptism: Symbolism vs. Sacrament

This morning, as I was laying in bed, I had many thoughts about writing this post.  I reckon that during my sleep my subconscious had processed the previous posts and the comments in response.  So this is what came of that.
I can’t seem to put everything together at the moment since I am trying to [...]

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Comments on my baptism

I wanted to come back and say something else about my baptism and those of my sisters.
As I mentioned in the previous post, I was baptized when I was 6 in the United Methodist Church. It was Easter and some of the older kids were receiving their “scheduled” baptisms. They had gone through [...]

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Thoughts on Baptism

The issue of baptism has come up in my mind recently based on things I have thought and  read.  I would like to attempt to explain some things in this post.  I want you to know a couple of things in reading- to understand my point, you must read all the way through this post.  [...]

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The Red Carpet

I really couldn’t decide which blog to post these thoughts on, so they ended up here. Perhaps, if presented in a different way, they’d find a better home on one of my other blogs (should have stuck with just one…)
Today I found myself, like many other Americans, glued in front of [...]

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