This meme has been going around like wildfire lately. It expresses the common idea that the way not to judge others for their struggles is to think that maybe they are not as strong as you are. On the surface, the intention is great. The idea is to encourage people not to judge others' suffering.... Continue Reading →
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/08/18/churches-need-less-tradition-more-flexibility-welcome-teens-column/2011731001/ This article and others like it have been posted and talked about on my online and in person Catholic groups over and over again. There's always a couple of people kindly talking about it and then the avalanche of more traditional Catholics who start mocking the author and saying, "Oh they just want the... Continue Reading →
A couple of weeks ago, there was a shooting in Texas that just devastated me. A couple days before I watched The Hate You Give, which rocked me as well. Both of these events are on the heels of, and preceding so many horrible tragedies and fearful events happening all over they world lately. I... Continue Reading →
Just to clarify; This may not have been what Tupac meant, but this is what keeps coming to me when I think of this line. A post closer to what he meant is in part one. The Hate You Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone. I'm going to write about something I don't particularly like to... Continue Reading →
The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone. -Tupac Last night, I tried to watch The Hate U Give, the emotional true story of a black girl who watches her friend get killed by a police officer. Later, she is called to testify, but I haven't gotten that far, because I had to take a... Continue Reading →
I am so angry about what's happening at the border. Like, so angry. I have this horrible image in my head of a little baby boy at daycare, crying because he doesn't know where his Mama is. I want to wake up from this horrible nightmare, and tell myself it isn't true. It isn't happening.... Continue Reading →
I started to read a book called "Boundaries" a couple of months ago. I had bought it a long time before that, but I hadn't read it. I was nervous because I have talked to several people who were very callous and used this book as their excuse, but I have also talked to others... Continue Reading →
I am currently reading a book about Boundaries that threw me for a loop and shut me down a little bit. I started to believe that maybe everything I ever said was wrong and everything I have ever believed is ridiculous. It discusses that it is ok to set boundaries and say "this is ok"... Continue Reading →
Lately, my newsfeed has been inundated with posts screaming, "YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE A SIDE." Of course, half the time the premise also includes condescending language about how if you don't choose a side, you are choosing the wrong side, and there is something wrong with you. I am so sick of this. Let me... Continue Reading →
All day I've been cursing at myself about how we haven't been planning for the future. "We had one good paycheck and we used it all up. We should have saved every penny for the future. This is God punishing us because we messed up again." Over and over again I thought of all of... Continue Reading →
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