Jun
3
Makes me think about my days in Wales. :)
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thoughtsofasam
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“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
Stephen R. Covey (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
I”m guilty of this pretty often, and I’m working on it.
(via socialistnurse)
this is interesting. This never occurred to me until I went to a Sisters of Life training thing, and they devoted a huge segment to building listening skills and resisting the urge to reply with advice or a solution, and instead to reply by showing you understand. I try to do that more now but it’s tough man.
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Have you ever considered how really insulting it is to say to someone, “I think your mother should have been able to abort you.”? It’s like saying, “If I had my way, you’d be dead right now.” And that is the reality with which I live every time someone says they are pro-choice or pro-life “except in cases of rape” because I absolutely would have been aborted if it had been legal in Michigan when I was an unborn child, and I can tell you that it hurts. But I know that most people don’t put a face to this issue — for them abortion is just a concept — with a quick cliche, they sweep it under the rug and forget about it. I do hope that, as a child conceived in rape, I can help to put a face, a voice, and a story to this issue.
In reply, some have said to me, “So does that mean you’re pro-rape?” Though ludicrous, I’ll address it because I understand that they aren’t thinking things through. There is a huge moral difference because I did exist, and my life would have been ended because I would have been killed by a brutal abortion. You can only be killed and your life can only be devalued once you exist. Being thankful that my life was protected in no way makes me pro-rape.
(I have no idea if it’s the same “Rebecca”. I don’t think it is. I added this quote because I think the quote is relevant to the above poster.)
Once again, a fetus should never be punished for the father’s crime.
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It’s nearly 7pm on a Friday night and I can barely keep my eyes open. I hope I don’t feel like this every Friday night. :(
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Inspired by Looking for Alaska, by John Green
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Today is my first day of work at my big girl job. I woke up this morning feeling slightly nauseous. Everytime I get on Tumblr I see Catholic awesomeness that encourages me. So here I go!
“Willed by God in the very act of creation, marriage and the family are interiorly ordained to fulfillment in Christ and have need of His graces in order to be healed from the wounds of sin and restored to their “beginning,” that is, to full understanding and the full realization of God’s plan.”
Blessed John Paul the Great, Apostolic Exhortation, Familiaris Consortio (The Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World)
“The closer we are to God, the more the slightest sin will cause us deep sorrow.”
R.C. Sproul (via alightforrevelation)
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May
26
Come Holy Spirit
- Send forth your Spirit, oh Lord. And renew the face of the Earth.
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