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About me: Mother to 9 children 12 and under, trying to get her act together before they all graduate high school. Lisa blogs at Mama Says

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Guidance Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love.
V. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created.
R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.
Let us pray. O God, Who didst instruct the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant us in the same Spirit to be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord.

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Prayer of Those Suffering Miscarriage
My Lord, the baby is dead!
Why, my Lord—dare I ask why? It will not hear the whisper of the wind or see the beauty of its parents’ face—it will not see the beauty of Your creation or the flame of a sunrise. Why, my Lord?

“Why, My child—do you ask ‘why’? Well, I will tell you why.
You see, the child lives. Instead of the wind he hears the sound of angels singing before My throne.
Instead of the beauty that passes he sees everlasting Beauty—he sees My face.
He was created and lived a short time so the image of his parents imprinted on his face may stand before Me as their personal intercessor.
He knows secrets of heaven unknown to men on earth. He laughs with a special joy that only the innocent possess.

My ways are not the ways of man. I create for My Kingdom and each creature fills a place in that Kingdom that could not be filled by another.
He was created for My joy and his parents’ merits. He has never seen pain or sin. He has never felt hunger or pain. I breathed a soul into a seed, made it grow and called it forth.”

I am humbled before you, my Lord, for questioning Your wisdom, goodness, and love. I speak as a fool—forgive me. I acknowledge Your sovereign rights over life and death. I thank You for the life that began for so short a time to enjoy so long an Eternity.
-- Mother M. Angelica

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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Hancock Fabrics has filed bankruptcy, been delisted on the New York Stock Exchange, and plans to close 240 stores while it restructures.

What does this mean? First WalMart is ditching it's craft department, now Hancock Fabrics? I know not many people make their own clothes; but there's always going to be moms making costumes, and budget decorators creating their own draperies! What's an amateur seamstress in a small town to do?

Internet ordering is just not the same.

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~~Ender in Exile~~ Orson Scott Card (sci fi)
~~The Golden Age Trilogy~~, John C. Wright (sci fi)
~~How to Live on an Acre~~ , US AG dept.
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Common Sense, Thomas Paine
Schuyler's Monster
Reading Rescue 1-2-3
A Year of Living Biblically

Waiting in the Wings
Crime and Punishment
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The Federalist and Anti Federalist papers
Ancient Shores, Jack McDevitt (sci fi)
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Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Democracy in America (that's a monster!), Alexis DeToqueville
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