Wednesday, October 04, 2006
The Heaven's are Telling...
Thursday, March 30, 2006
The American Way??
although I grew up in the city, I had the joy of moving to a small town and then the opportunity to drive through the country everyday on my way to higher education. During these drives, I fell in love with watching the seasons change in the land so rich and full of so much nourishment that God has provided us with. Those drives that filled my heart with so much joy and peace have been replaced by sadness as the beautiful old farms with acres of nutrient rich whole foods have been either replaced by subdivisions or are up for sale.
Some extremist would state that population control is the answer. As a natural Catholic, I view my children as the answer. I hope to teach them to
love the earth and creatures that God has given us and to treat dominion over them as a responsibility and a privilege but never to take advantage of it. For to those that much is given, much is expected. This applies to our care of Mother Earth. We must embrace and protect this gift just as we should with other great gifts such as our fertility.
One way to help us embrace this is to find Lady Poverty and treat her like
the Lady she is. As parents it is almost impossible to sell our of our possessions and sing for scraps like
Monday, March 20, 2006
Humility: Action Part I
I. Trust in Family Size
God's creating of being able to procreate is in a sad state of disrepair as we value our things (cars, toys, good schools) over trust in God's ability to work within us. It is time that we as Catholics give back in trust to God what God created. God created Adam and Even with the instructions to go forth and multiply. Note there were no conditions or terms such as go forth and multiply only if you receive a promotion or even multiply only if you can ensure that you create healthy children and remain healthy yourself. He simply said, "Go Forth and Multiply." As noted earlier, we must dedicate our lives to trust and holy obedience to our most Holy Father.
As parents, I am sure many of us have experienced upon conception of a child the toy of life and humility in knowing that it is through God that life is given (and taken away). As we expand our trust of God to include all areas of our fertility, we can grow in humility that it is not our bodies that create life. God has blessed women's bodies with plentiful eggs and has blessed men with the similarly amazing ability to produce sperm. It is not by our work or merit that life is created, rather God blesses our lives with children through an act of trust in him and a sharing of love and appreciation for the amazing gift of life that he has shared with us. For we are not creating children rather we are being blessed by God as the gatekeepers of some of his most precious impressionable souls.
Humility
I know for my own son, I have always complimented him in hopes of giving him a higher sense of esteem then I left childhood with. However, is it necessary to praise or is it more important to shelter our smallest and most vulnerable of souls from the evils of this material world? Can we comfort and nourish while still preserving humility? I think one key to this is keeping our children close. God our Heavenly Father only allows us as adults to be burdened to the extent that we can bear and He blesses us with the Grace to endure if we seek His counsel. Do we do the same for our children or do we ignore the cruelities of other children saying "kids will be kids" or "we can protect them forever?" In this we can preserve child-like faith in us so that it may one day grow to childlike faith in God. Our children trust us and it is imperative that we preserve that trust. See later writings on trust and the cry it out method. As they grow into greater and deeper trust, they can also grow in humility for before one can be humbled in God who created us, we must first trust our Father that he will always love and care for us. After this trust is formed and we rely on it, then our eyes will begin to be opened to Sister Humility. Sister Humility is the child of Trust. As we trust in God, we see that our life is not dependent on us or our own merits but rather those of He who loves us. We are nothing without His love and thenceforth shall we humble ourselves as it is not us by which great deeds, love, or charity can be done, but by He who created us and is working in us and through us. First we must give ourselves fully mind, body, spirit, (and yes even our pocket books) to God the good Lord who provides all, creates all and loves all.