june third

This post has been written earlier, but scheduled for release today!

So have the last few and the next.

Why?

Because I knew I’d be far-away finishing up the final 30 days of my first year of classes with no time or freedom for blogging during that time. But very soon – no more classroom assignments, reading or writing until next fall!

Well, sort-of.

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read all about it!

One of my great desires is that the Gospel always be presented as

good news,

happy news,

filling our hearts with

joy and consolation.

Yes, Jesus’ teaching is demanding, but St. Therese helps us see it as genuine good news, since the Gospel is no less than the revelation of God’s tenderness, God’s mercy toward each of his children, illuminating the laws of life that lead to happiness.

“Sometimes when I read certain spiritual treatises where perfection is shown through a thousand obstacles, surrounded by a host of snares, my poor little spirit quickly tires, I shut the learned book that makes my head ache and dries up my heart, and I take up Sacred Scripture. Then everything seems luminous to me, one single word reveals infinite horizons to my soul, perfection seems easy, and I see that it is enough to recognize one’s own nothingness and abandon oneself like a child into God’s arms.

Leaving to great souls, great spirits, the beautiful books that I cannot understand and still less put into practice, I rejoice to be little, because only children and those who are like them will be admitted to the heavenly banquet.”

St. Therese of Liseux
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just act normal. that alone looks strange.

it’s the monday giggles…

I think it all began when I first heard about Cauliflower Pizza Crust.

I thought it was the craziest thing I’d ever heard of!

But now, (everyday) when I receive the latest News update, Cauliflower pizza is feeling more normal to me than the current Cra-Cra running amuck in the World.

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