apparently my boss who is a professor at my school doesn’t have a cell phone and his coworkers were upset by this so they bought him a childs toy phone and labeled it “David’s jitterbug” (for those of you that don’t know jitterbugs are phones made for old people that have like massive buttons and shit) so the other day I walked into his office to ask him a question and he pressed a button on it which made it start loudly playing the ABCs and he said “excuse me I have to take this” and then started singing along to the ABCs while shooing me out of his office
this is the phone. he apparently was in the middle of a meeting with the department the other day and got annoyed so he pressed a button, said “I have to take this” and left
It’s not a dumb question at all because I absolutely love telling this story! ❤
So I met @an-autumn-rose on a video chat room called Rabbit that was run by @captainvatican for the DigiCatholic group. We didn’t talk too much at first, but slowly got to know each other and eventually (by that I mean within a week) we started Skyping every night. I can’t really remember when the decision itself was made, but we decided since I took the whole week after Christmas that year, I would spend the second half meeting her and @fiercequeen23 in person and figuring out whether or not we wanted to try a long distance relationship. We obviously decided to go for it and the rest is history. 🙂
I also had the pleasure of meeting @its-pixie-perfect on the drive back. 😛
Once again, I (Maureen) see a Great Flame that I have come to know as
the Heart of God the Father. He says: “Children, please learn to use
the present moment towards your own salvation. Careless use of time can
be overcome, if you treasure the present moment by surrendering to My
Divine Will at the beginning of your day. Then I take even mundane
tasks and use them towards your salvation and the conversion of the
heart of the world.”
“The heart of the world is so easily held hostage by the allurements
of the world such as wealth, power and ambition. Every moment each
soul can use towards My Victory over sin is a weapon in My Arsenal
against evil. The final victory, of course, belongs to righteousness.
The battles that are lost in pursuit of this victory lead souls to their
perdition. Learn to recognize Satan in every excess of your daily
life.”
Read Ephesians 6:10-17+
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put
on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the
wiles of the devil. For we are not contending against flesh and blood,
but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world
rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of
wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take the whole armor of
God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done
all, to stand. Stand therefore, having fastened the belt of Truth around
your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and
having shod your feet with the equipment of the gospel of peace; besides
all these, taking the shield of faith, with which you can quench all
the flaming darts of the Evil One. And take the helmet of salvation, and
the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
+ Scripture verses asked to be read by God the Father. (Please note:
all Scripture given by Heaven refers to the Bible used by the
visionary. Ignatius Press – Holy Bible – Revised Standard Version –
Second Catholic Edition.)
anyway, my older sister was adopted when she was almost 16 (kinda on accident too), and because of that she got away from an abusive household, went from barely passing classes to being an honour student, and launching into a career where she’s happy and healthy and paying her own way. just two years of parenting where she had 3 meals a day, a bedtime, and parents to help and protect her changed her life radically. Plus, i got an older sister
The chronicle of the monk Herbert of Reichenau for the year 1021 ends “My brother Werner was born on November 1.“
1021 was not an uneventful year. The emperor began a campaign into Italy. Illustrious abbots died. There was an earthquake. But Herbert took the time to note, at the end of the year, that his brother was born.
Of such acts of tenderness is history made.
This post broke through the shell of crustiness on my medievalist heart and made me go ‘aww’.
There was a medieval parenting manual that recommended parents smack pieces of furniture their toddlers bumped into and scold the furniture for being so naughty as to get in the way, so that the kids would laugh and forget about their bumps and bruises
I read that and my heart melted
(source: Medieval Women by Deirdre Jackson. She cited the primary source but I cannot for the life of me find the book to check what it was called)
We should hold a thousandth birthday party for Werner in a couple of years.
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