God desires our highest good and so He gives each of us a vocation to bring us closer to Him. God makes use of common things to communicate to us about our vocations. We pray for discernment and then look around at the evidence of God’s will for us that already exists. Why do we do this? Because most of the time the information about our own particular, unique vocation is already available to us but we aren’t looking properly and miss it. MY VOCATION I have discerned my vocation, prayed, evaluated my life, and practiced detachment to let go … Continue reading
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The other day I decided it was time to let the tittle tiger in our family touch my autoharp. Being that this instrument is a well made one that cost money I probably should not have spent on myself I have been loath to let a 21 month old touch it. Never-the-less it was time and I knew just what method to use! There was at one time a bulletin board for autoharp and on it a woman demonstrated how she introduced the autoharp to small children, granted a bit older than 21 months, but still small: she let them … Continue reading
My human has owned dogs her entire life so she came to me pretty well trained. That has been a wonderful thing for me because I have been taught good things from before my eyes even opened. She is a good human. She has done a bit of obedience and agility training (but I must say she is too slow to make a good Agility human), bred a few quality health and temperament tested litters (including ME), showed a few dogs to conformation champions (like 15 of my relatives!) and studied to be an AKC judge. In recent years she … Continue reading
A vocation that includes marriage and children brings with it the rights and responsibilities related to that vocation. Due to their vocation, parents have a responsibility to educate their children. This includes religious education. In an article found here a Msgr. Barreiro said, “it is absolutely clear that parents are the primary educators of their children”. Some individuals (found in the link above) insist that religious education (teaching the catechism) is the domain of the pastor and not the parents; others in the same article place the primary responsibility on the parents. To better decide who is correct let us … Continue reading
I’m a music lover and there are many kinds of music I love very much, but not all kinds of music are suitable to all situations. I’m writing here of music in the liturgy. There has been a lot written from the Vatican about the importance of music that is appropriate to the dignity of the Mass and serves as prayer and worship which is our role in participating in the Mass. Sadly, the music so often in use is banal, lacking in theological depth, even heterodox, and either impossible to sing or so repetitive that it is hardly worth … Continue reading
What is a Lay Vocation? A vocation is the work a lay person does for God and includes everything that person does in this life. Every vocation is as unique as the person to whom that vocation belongs. Each of us has a special call, a special vocation, and it will be made up of many elements unique to us and is designed to help us become saints. A Lay person is any person who has not received Holy Orders (anyone not a deacon, priest or bishop). What are the elements that make up a vocation? Every single activity in … Continue reading
I want to introduce myself, I am Wubbie. I come from a fine lineage of health and temperament tested and carefully bred AKC champions and have many close relatives who have Agility, Obedience, Rally Obedience and Canine Good Citizen titles. I am proud of my relatives but also very proud that my title is even more important than all of theirs because I am: THE FAMILY DOG. Some people feel that this is a role that can be played by any dog at all but that is not so. I am skilled in silliness and also in walking on a … Continue reading
Teaching the One Room School The above is the best article on home education I have read in a very long time. Well reasoned and well written this article describes with accuracy what we, as home educators, seek to accomplish. … Continue reading
My husband shared this with me, that school was for him a misery. He is a physicist, a brilliant man, inventor, scholar, lover of books (especially science fiction) and a do-er in addition to being a sensitive observer of life. He spent time as a journeyman millwright, builder of log cabins, and later went to college and earned his basic degree in physics, and a PhD for his original work on a laser application. He told me that at age 6, learning that he was to go to school, he spent his last three days of freedom outdoors visiting each … Continue reading
Everyone has heard the phrase “Culture Shock” where a person from one region moves to a new place and the differences in the culture of the new place are difficult for that person to understand and they have to struggle to adjust. Meet “Technology Shock” where the simple machines of my childhood have been eclipsed by technology I never imagined. A year ago I dove into the fun of looking for a new sewing machine. I recalled that years before there were the two choices of sewing machine and/or serger and I toyed with the idea that owning one of … Continue reading