“One of the glorious lines of the Virgin Mary’s Magnificat is Luke 1:51: “He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.” The Greek work dianoia is literally a thinking over, but it is here used in the sense of an independent reasoning, a reasoning without God, and hence “the imagination of their [...]
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My midwife’s practice is 75 miles away from me, but much closer to 2 of my married sisters.I live very near 2 more married sisters: Ashley (actually a sister-in-law) has 3 children, 3yo and under. Steph is pregnant with her first, with a duedate very near my own, and her midwife practices from the [...]
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Well, technically not the first appointment, but today was the first one I attended. I had to keep putting it off because the children were sick, and then I was forced to go to Hawaii…But today was the day!I heard the heartbeat: 150/minute.I had my belly measured: I’m measuring 3 weeks bigger than my duedate [...]
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Does that date ring a bell for you? Jan. 22 came and went while I was off on a sunny blue beach, but I had really wanted to compose an article about the court case 33 years earlier.Since I was otherwise occupied, I’ll chime in late with a few good links and an interesting [...]
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It was a business trip:) they had to work two whole hours out of six day and they only had 5 1/2 days to do what they wanted how unreasonable is that! Just kidding While Mom and Dad were there us kids got to stay uncle Justin and Aunt Steph’s house and they have [...]
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Only a Dad with a tired face coming home from the daily race,bringing little of gold or fame to show how well he has played the game,but glad in his heart whenhis own rejoice to see him come or hear his voice,Only a Dad with a brood of seven one of ten million men or [...]
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I woke up to a full dose of real life this morning. Are you sure you want to read this?The dog had an accident during the night. Not Lady, the Good Dog; it was Izzy, the pathetic, aged, perpetually depressed seemingly-harmless stray that was allowed to move in with us a few months ago.We awoke [...]
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God made a wonderful Mother,A Mother who never grows old;He made her smile of sunshine,And he molded her heart of pure gold;In her eyes he placed bright shining stars,In her cheeks fair roses you see;God made a wonderful Mother,And he gave that dear mother to me!
by Pat O Reilly
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And we’re glad. I missed y’all - no internet access for those of us with a prehistoric laptop that didn’t have wireless capability. Hawaii was glorious, and the water really was warm and looked exactly the same color as the postcards. It wasn’t too crowded since it was winter, and “only” 70 degrees every day [...]
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on the north shore
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a mime in the market
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in the cove by the blow hole
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watching the tide
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