This is all rather bewildering...

[VOW]

Go to bed, Joe.

/me kisses Joe on the forehead, pulls the covers up to his neck, then turns out the light and tiptoes out...


Peace and sweet dreams,
~VOW

 

[Caedmon]

Originally posted by VOW
Go to bed, Joe.

VOW kisses Joe on the forehead, pulls the covers up to his neck, then turns out the light and tiptoes out...


Peace and sweet dreams,
~VOW

Awww!!!!!

*warm fuzzies*

Ok mommy... I love you...

/me says his Rosary in bed, and then goes night-night...

 

[Phoebe]

Well, Joe, I can do something for you.
I will pray for you.

 

[isshinwhat]

I don't understand, but I like to think it may have meant something.

There once lived a man who believed God told him to sacrifice his son, so one day he told him to carry some wood on his back, and up the mountain they went. His son, knowing the usual custom, asked where the sacrifice was, and his father told him to keep trekking, God would provide. Sure enough, after a fairly close call God did provide a sacrifice and the man didn't have to sacrifice his son.

A few thousand years later, another Father gave up His Son, who also carried the wood of sacrifice, only this time it was a cross. Again, the God provided the sacrifical lamb, only this time the Lamb and the Son were one and the same. Sometimes what something means has only to do with perspective.

Rest easy, Joe. You have a great many prayers circling around the throne of God tonight, and a multitude of Angels to keep you comfort by your bedside. You always have an open ear in us.

Peace be with you,

Neal

 

[Avila]

I think you're getting it, Joe. I really do. All these questions, all these seemingly random thoughts, even feeling like you're being inundated in a storm - it all seems like it is because you are "getting it."

BTW, many people spend their whole lives believing in the Christian faith without ever experiencing anything remotely personal. Both Protestant and Catholic (I should know - I am recovering one)... The key "is" your personal relationship with Christ. IMO, in the Catholic Church, the experience/relationship is much richer and deeper because you have the sacraments, the history, the unity, and (dare I say it? it's last in my listing, but far from the least) the Truth.

Still praying. Rest easy.

 

[VOW]

To Joe:

I wish you could meet my daughter. (oh, and not for a fix-up, LOL, she's engaged) She is such a FERVENT Catholic apologist! When she was in high school, she got into many debates with her teachers and her peers. They admired her tenacity, if anything!

Her biggest problem was the inevitable encounter with the evangelistic Protestant who wanted to "save" her. It got to be a big source of irritation when someone would make overtures to be friends, and then she'd get hit with the sales pitch. She came home one day almost screaming. She said, "If ONE MORE PERSON asks me 'Is Jesus Christ your personal-Lord-and-Savior' I'm going to SCREAM!" Just the way some people string the words together like that is irritating enough, but the idea that non-Catholic Christians are trying to "save" Catholics so they can have a personal relationship is really quite ludicrous.

Because when we receive the Eucharist, Joe, we TOUCH GOD.

That's pretty personal in my book.



Peace be with you,
~VOW

 

[Wolseley]

LOL. Vow, you could always tell her to do what I do: when an Evangelical asks me, "Have you accepted Jesus as your personal Savior?", I always answer, "Yes, I have. Have you accepted Mary as your personal Mother?"

 

[Avila]

Wols!!!! LOLOLOLOL!!!!! Don't do that to a poor pregnant woman!!! I think I've pulled a couple of round ligaments! And how am I going to scale the baby fence to check the soup? At least I didn't snort my cocoa or spit it over the computer screen!

 

[Caedmon]

Originally posted by VOW
She came home one day almost screaming. She said, "If ONE MORE PERSON asks me 'Is Jesus Christ your personal-Lord-and-Savior' I'm going to SCREAM!"

LOL!!!

Actually, I live down here in the Bible belt, and I've NEVER had anyone ask me that... well, accept for the Pastor once, because people who had been praying for a long time that I would "get saved" told him to do it.

But believe me VOW... I know EXACTLY what you're daughter went through! lol! Did she get confronted so often because people knew she was a Catholic? I imagine that that would have "helped". Hahaha, and see, all you have to do is tune into your native Cali station, TBN... then you'd get all of it you could POSSIBLY EVER DESIRE!!! lol!

I know, I know, I know... oh boy... I'll tell you what. I believe the people that witness with that phrase are perfectly honestly concerned, but more than half the time, that's just not the way you go about telling people about God! That's like walking up to a nice Christian lady to court, and saying, "Hello ma'am, you don't know me, but I'd like to get married and have babies with you if you're interested." LOL!!! SLOW DOOOOWWWWWNNNNNN PAD-NA!!!!!!!

 

[Caedmon]

Originally posted by Wolseley
LOL. Vow, you could always tell her to do what I do: when an Evangelical asks me, "Have you accepted Jesus as your personal Savior?", I always answer, "Yes, I have. Have you accepted Mary as your personal Mother?"

ROFLOL!!!!!

I'M USING IT! I'M USING IIIIITTTTT!!!!!