"Cool To Be Catholic"...

...Reads the sweat shirt that Kara Michaels often wears, a good friend of mine who I have come to know more about the past few months. Yes, she is catholic, and proud of it! I have never seen any 15 year old so excited about their relationship with God. She is passionate about serving others, in her home, her church family, and community. She's active in youth group, they go on retreats fairly often to listen to speakers and go to christian concerts. She is a very unique person and being catholic is only one aspect of her very interesting self. Although Catholicism is probably the biggest part of her life, she likes many other things like acting, singing, having fun, and being a teenager. I have yet to learn more about Kara Michaels, and catholicism. I'm sure I can kill two birds with one stone, because the two are most definitely tied together. :)

Healing Hands

Healing Hands

"I've been healing by touch since I was a child. My hands heat up and tingle in the prescence of someone in pain. When I was little I would give hugs to people who seemed to need them. Now I make part of my being in service to the Lord using the gift I feel He gave me. My son is three and gives hugs to people who seem to need them. I've watched their faces when he hugs them and have seen their peace afterwards." - Beth V.

Diligence like the snail.

Diligence readers, that is my advice to you. Today I wanted to post about diligence, and I thought about this picture that I took last summer. I know snails don't have hands or feet but they still carry themselves along. Slowly but surely they get to where they're going. Lately I have not been practicing that virtue. I want to be as diligent and patient as a snail is. Some interesting things have happened with my sister and her fiance, and now they are going to get married in the courthouse and come live with us. I have to move out of my room into the spare room that is crammed full of furniture and book cases. I feel so angry because I have to sacrifice lots of things for my sister's well being, when she does not appreciate it, but expects it. And I know it's not my place to say, but she doesn't even deserve it. Because I am a Christian I must do these things for her, and with a smile on my face. Yes, I do know why it is I am doing these things. It's the "right" thing to do. Most of all it's because God wants me to, and if I do it for Him that's the best person to do it for. As for me and my struggles, I'll just have to look to the Lord for support, love, acknowledgement, and a comfy living space even if it's not a physical one. That is something else I should learn from the snail, how to deal with your surroundings because snails don't bunk up for the night in a Holiday Inn.