Parental Wisdom from St. Louise de Marillac

"The faults of children are not always imputed to the parents, especially when they have instructed them and given good example. Our Lord, in His wondrous Providence, allows children to break the hearts of devout fathers and mothers. Thus the decisions your children have made don't make you a
failure as a parent in God's eyes. You are entitled to feel sorrow, but not necessarily guilt. Do not cease praying for your children; God's grace can touch a hardened heart. Commend your children to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. When parents pray the Rosary,at the end of each decade they should
hold the Rosary aloft and say to her,"With these beads bind my children to your Immaculate Heart", she will attend to their souls. "
(St. Louise de Marillac)

You Only Get One Shot At Being Your Kid's Mom

I've struggled for a long time with how to articulate the importance of investing oneself FULLY as a mother during the years when our children are home with us.

It's exhausting.
It's rewarding.
It's frustrating.
It's exhilerating.

It's a vocation.

It's the most important thing you EVER will do in your life, with your life.  And Sarah Mae expresses this more eloquently than I ever could!

Read and be challenged.
Read and be inspired.
Read and be renewed in your vocation as a mom!

And be assured that my prayers are with you!

Here's the link:


http://sarahmae.com/2012/08/sometimes-we-are-failing/

Today's Wisdom

"Lord, please walk beside me with one hand around my shoulder and the other hand over my mouth!"

Understanding God and the Church

Here's a wonderful link to a reliable source (St. Mary of Piscataway, Clinton, MD, Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.) with a plethora of downloadable PDF's on "the most important things to 'get' about God and the Church":


http://www.parishesonline.com/scripts/HostedSites/org.asp?SBA=4578&Content=4&p=26&ID=8190#

Talk about edifying and spiritually nourishing summer reading!  Enjoy!

On Children

"If you bungle raising your children, nothing else much matters in life."

(Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy)

Common Sense

"Common sense is so uncommon today, it's a super power!"

(Dale Beauchamp, Jr.)

More Wisdom from Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

"When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women."  (Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Life is Worth Living)