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Outside my window…
I am thinking…
About the weekend, the funeral, and all of my in-laws who came together for that event. It was wonderful to see everyone and to be in touch with them, and it was also heartbreaking to say good bye again, knowing that we won’t see each other again until another wedding, or a funeral.
I am thankful…
to have married into such a warm and wonderful family.
In the kitchen…
No clue. I’m guessing roasted chicken with salad.
I am wearing…
Black capris, black T shirt and black cover up.
I am reading…
Awesome book- that I am going to incorporate into Izzy’s health class next year – chock full of good advice and examples.
I am pondering...
at the end of her life, my sister-in-law Irene, asked her sister, if she thought she had been good enough to go to heaven.
I have been thinking about that a lot. Irene was raised Catholic, baptized, confirmed, and received the sacrament of Penance. But she rejected her Catholic faith as an adult. She didn’t go to church and she didn’t practice any other belief. She did pray with us as a family at the reunions, and she did say the rosary with her own sister when she was dying. But other than that, as far as we can tell, she wasn’t practicing any other faith. She did work as an ICU nurse, and she was very good at that – comforting the sick and caring for the dying are very Christian acts of love and mercy. She was also very generous with her family, especially her younger siblings.
Wishing to go to Heaven is choosing NOT to go to hell. So it is my belief that in this Year of Mercy, we can have hope of meeting again someday in Purgatory, as we complete our pilgrimages towards Heaven.
I am going…
- to walk or work out every day with Pfilates .
- to cut my carbs via the Wheat Belly Total Health: The Ultimate Grain-Free Health and Weight-Loss Life Plan
recommendations.
From the Learning Rooms…
In the homestretch now! World History will be over this week- (Although the AP test is May 12!)
Noah- Senior
- Pre-calculus
- AP World History
- Government.
- Piano
- Choir
- Algebra II
- American History 2
- American Literature Animal Farm – which is a nice tie in with government!
- American Government in Christian Perspective (A Beka)
- Spelling
- Art Class
- Doing a Bravewriter writing class the next few weeks – what a giant step for Izzy!
Rosie 5th grade
- Saxon 65
- Bravewriter
- Prairie Primer Starting
- Spelling
- Geography
- Choir- co-op
- Art Class
One of my favorite things…
While in Michigan, we stopped by the cemetery to pay our respects to my grandparents and uncle. As per usual, we couldn’t find them, although we were pretty close. We kept forgetting exactly which section they were in. So when we finally did find them, Rosie posed in the form of an X so that from this time forward, we will always remember that they are buried in section X!
Another favorite thing…
…it never occurs to Sir William Joynson-Hicks that…Purgatory may exist whether he likes it or not. If it be true, however incredible it may seem, that the powers ruling the universe think that a politician or a lawyer can reach the point of death, without being in that perfect ecstasy of purity that can see God and live- why then there may be cosmic conditions corresponding to that paradox, and there is an end of it. It may be obvious to us that the politician is already utterly sinless, at one with the saints. It may be evident to us that the lawyer is already utterly selfless, filled only with God and forgetful of the very meaning of gain. But if the cosmic power holds that there are still some strange finishing touches, beyond our fancy, to put to his perfection, then certainly there will be some cosmic provision for that mysterious completion of the seemingly complete. The stars are not clean in His sight and His angels He chargeth with folly; and if He should decide that even in a Home Secretary there is room for improvement, we can but admit that omniscience can heal the defect that we cannot even see.
G.K. Chesterton
A picture to share…
Mr. Pete and his entire family, circa 1968.
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