Here is wisdom:
Have a kid? Get a dog. Want a kid? Get a dog.
Don’t want a dog? Get a cat, which is like training wheels for dog ownership.
Have a cat already? It’s probably time to get a dog. Don’t like dogs? You’re wrong.
What Having a Dog Can Teach You about Life, by Jonah Goldberg
If you work around the elderly long enough, you stop asking this, because almost all of them are beautiful, not just “pretty enough.” The good Lord loves us all, especially the most broken among us. We are all pretty enough for Christ.
Also see The Butterfly Circus.
The Church is the hospital of broken souls, those whom psychiatry or psychoanalysis couldn’t help. It offers what the secular world has forgotten: forgiveness, redemption.
A Chicken Ain’t Nothing But a Bird, Cab Calloway
“Chickens are the furthest thing from vegetarians,” Harris said. “That advertising is ridiculous. It’s like people going to the zoo and saying they only want to see the vegetarian tiger.”
People love chickens that are “vegetarian fed.” But chickens are not vegetarians. By Peter Whoriskey
The Butterfly Circus , with Eduardo Verastegui and Nick Vujicic
Art Has Power to Bring People Together: An Interview with “Little Boy’s” Eduardo Verastegui, by Tony Rossi on Patheos
Why the “Brad Pitt of Mexico,” Eduardo Verastegui, Left Acting to Make Movies for God, by Zoe Romanowsky on Patheos
Forthcoming book, Philip Greenspun is a co-author.
“When young people ask me about the law as a career,” said one litigator, “I tell them that in this country whom they choose to have sex with and where they have sex will have a bigger effect on their income than whether they attend college and what they choose as a career.”
After you read this book you will have a practical understanding of the divorce, child custody, and child support laws in all 50 states of the U.S. (plus D.C.). You’ll be learning from the top divorce litigators in those jurisdictions about how concrete scenarios are likely to be resolved by courts.
“Before you can get a driver’s license, they make you read a booklet with all of the laws,” noted a consumer. “Why don’t they make people applying for a marriage license read about how the divorce system works in that state?”
“Real World Divorce: Custody, Child Support, and Alimony in the 50 States”
Father Jonathan Morris Says Taking Care of Elderly is Like Taking Care of Jesus
Children who fail to visit their frail elderly parents for months at a time will go to Hell, the Pope said yesterday.
He condemned a family who neglected to visit an old lady in a care home between Christmas and August and declared: ‘Eight months without a visit from her children. This is a mortal sin.’
A mortal sin, in Roman Catholic teaching, is one so great that it rots the soul and will condemn the sinner to Hell unless he or she repents.
Pope Francis’ warning to the young not to neglect the elderly was delivered in a general audience before 20,000 people in St Peter’s Square.
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The Pope said societies that mistreat older people are infected with a ‘virus of death’ and put their own futures in jeopardy. ‘Where there is no honour for the elderly there is no future for young people,’ he said.
Do you go months without visiting your elderly parents? That’s a ‘mortal sin’ warns Pope Francis
“My life had been full of problems, most of which never happened….”
– Anonymous
“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
– Mark Twain