Category: good for the soul

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Fortnight for Freedom

It’s about religious freedom, y’all, and it’s nothing to sit back and take lightly.

“The challenge facing you, dear friends, is to increase people’s awareness of the importance for society of religious freedom; to defend that freedom against those who would take religion out of the public domain and establish secularism as America’s official faith.  And it is vitally necessary for the very survival of the American experience, to transmit to the next generation the precious legacy of religious freedom and the convictions which sustain it.”—  Blessed John Paul II, 1995 Baltimore, Basilica of the Assumption 

Read what the USCCB recommends…a prayer for religious freedom, videos, other resources here.

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choirs of angels

I’m sure you’ve heard the admonition to be kind to strangers…you might be entertaining angels. It sounds just like the kind of stuff I hear all the time in the South. Kind of like the lady at the drive-thru that always wishes me a blessed day.

I’m pretty sure I had one such encounter not too long ago, with a woman who was in my office, and then suddenly gone. Who knows….

But did you know that saying is not some Southernism (well, it probably is), it’s actually scriptural? Like, from The Bible?!

Yes, here it is:

Do not neglect hospitality, for through it some have unknowingly entertained angels. Hebrews 13:2

How about that? It makes me think about how I treat people….And how I should do it for the sake of kindness and goodness, and not because I’m afraid of getting caught off guard. You know, like the real measure of a person is what they do when no one is watching.

Anyway, kindness and goodness and the general nature of loving other people is a lovely two-way street. A blessing to give…and to receive.

Especially when it feels like I’ve been visited by angels all day 🙂

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Happy 50th Anniversary!

You two are GOLDEN!

These are my folks. Aren’t they adorable?

They are still in love after all these years. My dad torments my mom with all kinds of silly antics…

But she still follows him wherever he leads.

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