Finally got the desktop late last night — PC guy dropped it off around 11. Now I’m just waiting for the laptop. Ironic: the PCs were upgraded for online business purposes — but they died partly from overuse, a large % of which is business-related. LOL. Our bodies are much like our PCs — can’t tax them too much or they will cease to deliver. Our precious pics are still intact! The PC will be getting regular TLC now. Same thing applies to our health — gotta take care of ourselves if we don’t want to malfunction! (I will be going back to sleep as soon as I post this.:))
Today’s must reads:
The Good, The Bad, and the Confusing from Michael Liccione (religion/politics)
I don’t know if I should laugh or cry.
What Mother Teresa Can Teach A Suburban Housewife — beautiful!
Since we’re near the end of the schoolyear and I’m studying the kids’ options for Math, here are some excellent Math thoughts from The Curt Jester:
Catholic School Math
The Mathsiah
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It’s also graduation time. I wish our speaker had delivered this speech when I graduated — maybe we wouldn’t have been throwing beach balls around.
But the problem is that much of American culture right now is built on an adolescent fiction. The fiction is that life is all about you as an individual—your ideas, your appetites, and your needs. Believe me: It isn’t. The main interest big companies have in your wants and mine is how to turn them into a profit. Part of being an adult is the ability to separate marketing from reality; hype from fact. The fact is, the world is a big and complicated place. It doesn’t care about your appetites. It has too many of its own needs, and it won’t leave you alone.
God made you for a purpose. The world needs the gifts he gave you. Adulthood brings power. Power brings responsibility. And the meaning of your life will hinge on a simple, basic choice. Will you engage the world with your heart and brains and faith, and work to make it a better place—not just for yourself and the people you love but also for people you don’t even know whose survival depends on your service to the common good? Or will you wrap yourself in a blanket of noise and toys and consumer junk, and stay a child?
It’s not just American culture, though, is it? Spend some time bloghopping and you’ll see — it’s a sickness that’s EVERYWHERE.
If you’re not into saints and saints’ lives or learning about what brought them to the Catholic faith/Christianity, skip the part about Edith Stein, etc.
But don’t miss the paragraphs starting with this:
The mentality of suspicion toward religion is becoming its own form of intolerance. I have seen a kind of secular intolerance develop in our own country over the past two decades. The modern secular view of the world assumes that religion is superstitious and false; that it creates division and conflict; and that real freedom can only be ensured by keeping God out of the public square.
For those of us who call ourselves Catholic, the subsequent paragraphs should be required reading.
And to close, a prayer especially for our graduates, but also for us who have to struggle daily with keeping to the straight and narrow:
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. – Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
Upgraded Firefox last night. Still trying to get used to those red “x’s”. I keep closing tabs I don’t mean to close!
Losing the PCs for a week was such a blessing! I finally got to finish 2 classics I’ve been meaning to finish:
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