Collin and I put in an offer on a wonderful house last week, and we found out today that it was accepted! We are going to be homeowners for the first time!
The house is right behind our church -- we have a magnificent view of it from the master bedroom. Great neighborhood, lots of small kids, close to good schools. 4br, 2ba, a gorgeous backyard with a firepit. There's even a cupboard under the stairs (if we make that William's room, maybe he'll go to a school of magic someday...)
The only drawback is that the interior paint job is pretty ugly (varying shades of peach with one accent wall that's red). Oh well, we can paint. Elanor's room is not peach but rather pink and purple with a Disney Princess motif -- perfect for her!
We are so grateful to God for this opportunity! If all goes well we will close on November 20. Our lease on our current house isn't up until December 31, so that gives us plenty of time to move in.
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The following is mostly what I sent to a message board acquaintance who wanted to know my story.
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“Being a lover of freedom, when the Nazi revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks. Only the Catholic Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing the truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised, I now praise unreservedly.”
–- Albert Einstein
Dalin’s source is: Time, December 23, 1940, 38-40
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Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it because it is right."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Um, no. George Tiller was a beloved child of God. He did not deserve to be murdered.
But he was not a hero. The man, and his employees (under his supervision), killed perfectly healthy, viable babies in a woman's third trimester of pregnancy (28+ weeks), often citing "temporary depression of the mother" as a cause.
He's responsible for the death of Cristin Gilbert, among other deaths.
Let me reiterate that Tiller's murder was wholly unjustified. I hope the murderer is punished to the full extent of the law. I've prayed for Tiller's soul and for his family.
But this man was NOT a hero, or a martyr. He was a man who committed monstrous deeds and got rich doing it. His death is tragic, but his actions in life were even more so.
As a Catholic blogger, Mark Shea, said, "He was a monster who justified what he did by the good ends he claimed he was aiming for. In that, he was a kindred spirit with the person who murdered him."
Anyone who thinks Tiller was a hero should read this:
http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2009/0
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At least, so I heard on the radio this morning...
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Hehe... My cat does that all the time.
At Disneyland and having a marvelous time. I'm doped up on DayQuil thanks to an icky cold I picked up on the way, but otherwise we're doing good and having lots of fun (especially Elanor).
Me in my Pirates of the Caribbean mouse ears!
It's my lunch break and I'm taking a walk in a neighborhood near my office. One of the houses had a "For sale" sign and some flyers, so I looked at one out of curiosity.
The house was priced to sell at $909,000. Original price was $995,000.
How do people afford these houses, and where can I get one of their jobs?
Faith was diagnosed with anencephaly at 19 weeks gestation. Her mother, Myah, decided to carry her to term and just love her as long as she could. Babies with anencephaly typically don't survive more than a few days, if that, but so far Faith has lived an incredible NINE WEEKS!
Anyway, the last few days Myah has been writing about the hate mail she's received. People have been saying horrible things, such as that this baby girl should be raped and shot.
Seriously -- and excuse my language here -- but WHAT THE FUCK is wrong with people? Aren't pro-choice people allegedly for CHOICE? Myah made the CHOICE to continue her pregnancy, and she's caring for her baby girl to the best of her ability. Shouldn't pro-choicers be celebrating that CHOICE as much as they celebrate the choice of abortion, if they really are for CHOICE? It just serves to reaffirm my position that pro-choice is a contradiction in terms. I've yet to see a pro-choicer who actually supported true choice as opposed to abortion. (And, of course, no pro-choicers as far as I know support the BABY'S choice.)
Apparently, though, according to some whackaloons on the Internet, because Faith isn't a perfect baby, she deserves to be tortured and die horribly. What the hell has a tiny, sweet baby done to garner so much hatred?
Actually, that question is rather rhetorical, because I know. She is living proof that disability doesn't equal worthlessness. She is living proof that babies with disabilities are just as lovable and capable of bringing joy as those that are healthy, which flies in the face of all the lies that the pro-abortion camp has been spewing for the past 40 years.
My prayers continue to go with both Myah and Faith. They're two rare souls in this world of shallow, selfish narcissism.
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I was listening to a podcast earlier today (The Catholics Next Door) and one of the guests was a priest who used to be a lawyer.
The host of the show asks, "So how does one go from being a lawyer to a priest?"
The priest pauses a moment and then replies, "Well, first was Confession."
Ha!
Awesome, I discovered a free iPhone app that makes it easier to update my LJ! Maybe this'll encourage me to update more often.
Awesome, I discovered a free iPhone app that makes it easier to update my LJ! Maybe this'll encourage me to update more often.
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