Pope Francis’ top 10 secrets to living a holy life!
This one is my favorite and probably the hardest to do!
Love me some lower gas prices! Here’s why that’s happening.
Oil prices are falling because of changes in world supply and world demand. Demand has slowed because Europe is an economic wreck. But since 2008 the U.S. has increased our domestic supply by a gigantic 50 percent. This is a result of the astounding shale oil and gas revolution made possible by made-in-America technologies like hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. Already thanks to these inventions, the U.S. has become the number one producer of natural gas. But oil production in states like Oklahoma, Texas and North Dakota has doubled in just six years.Without this energy blitz, the U.S. economy would barely have recovered from the recession of 2008-09. From the beginning of 2008 through the end of 2013 the oil and gas extraction industry created more than 100,000 jobs while the overall job market shrank by 970,000.When the radical greens carry around signs saying “No to Fracking,” they couldn’t be promoting a more anti-America message. It would be like Nebraska not growing corn.
The incomparable Elizabeth Foss
As the calendar page turns to the month in which Americans collectively pause to be grateful, mothers might need to take the whole month, instead of just the fourth Thursday. Instead of a brief grace said before turkey and stuffing, can we cultivate a new habit? Can we follow the example of G. K. Chesterton, who wrote: “ You say grace before meals. Alright. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.” Grace in everything. Gratitude all the time, without ceasing.
Can we hold each moment captive for gratitude? Can we refuse to let our brains leave the neural pathways of thankfulness? Can we see God’s hand on everything, be ever more aware of His provision in each and every moment? Can we recognize that He is the creator of a beautiful universe, the creator of all the little hearts walking around outside a mother’s body, and the creator of the mother’s heart itself. He knows the tendency towards anxiety. He knows, too, the remedy.
It is a challenge, to be sure. To remain in a state of gratefulness requires discipline. November is a perfect month to begin that habit training, to see God more clearly and to recognize His goodness. When we cultivate a habit of mindful gratitude, our hearts feel the peace St. Augustine observed: “This, then, is the full satisfaction of souls, this is the happy life: to recognize piously and completely the one through whom you are led into the truth, the nature of the truth you enjoy and the bond that connects you with the supreme measure.”
Wise words from the Catholic Wife, Catholic Life Blog!
Can you take your husband, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do you part? Essentially, we are being asked in our wedding vows, “Can you suffer with this person?”If it hasn’t happened before the day you say, “I do,” it is bound to happen while you’re married (I promise, unfortunately), and you have to know whether your spouse will be there to help you walk through this — with faith and hope.You have to know how they deal with hurt, with disappointments, with setbacks, with tragedies and with evil.Because these things can paralyze us, they can isolate us and create walls between us. Or, they can bring us closer — to God, and to our loved ones. They can be a means of growing in our faith, especially with our spouse’s help.And when it comes to our spouses, I hope and pray that they’re the ones who can give us faith when we have doubt, and who can provide some strength when we feel weak.
Homeschool Organization at the Kitchen Table.
Great little article! With lots of pictures!
I’d be remiss if I didn’t say something about America doing a right face on Tuesday at the ballot box! Good for you America – the socialist experiment just didn’t work out!
From award winning author, Rush Limbaugh:
Whether they are even aware of the mandate is an even bigger question. As I listen to the wizards of smart — all the analysts of both parties, all movements on TV last night and today — the thing I’m hearing from everybody is that what the voters want is for Washington to compromise and people to work together. That’s not what they said.
That is not what the voters said. They didn’t say it in the exit polls. They didn’t say it in the election results. This was a skunking of the Democrat Party. This was the people of America “standing athwart history and yelling, ‘Stop!'” There’s only one entity that can do that, and that’s the Republican Party. They were not elected to “get along.” They were not elected to “reach across the aisle.”
They were not elected to “compromise.” They were not elected to “end gridlock.” They were elected to stop the policies of Barack Obama and the Democrat Party. Too much damage has been done to too many people. Because of a president of the United States, people are having their jobs converted from full time to part time. The American people didn’t think that was on the table.
They didn’t think the president, when he was promoting Obamacare, meant that they were gonna get fewer hours to work. They didn’t think it meant that they were gonna lose their health care. They didn’t think it meant that their premiums were gonna skyrocket. The American people showed up yesterday and voted in numbers and voices with one message: “Stop this!” There is no legitimate alternative analysis.
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