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Over the next nine weeks, I will be partaking in a discussion at my church in which we hope to develop an identity to this religious movement we call Catholicism. I have been chosen as a table facilitator and while I will be relating my experiences and stories, they will only be my stories and experiences for the sake of privacy.  It is important to me to document the process and hopefully create a journalized view of my experiences and answers to the many questions and discussions we will be having.

Last Thursday, the facilitators got together to talk about the makeup of the next nine sessions and the itinerary of our 1 1/2 hour meetings.  We opened with a prayer to God and a reading from the bible.  Then we dove into a question in which we shared with the table that related to the reading:  "What cross is it that we bear, today? What is it that gives us the most concern or anxiety?"

Not a bad first question.  There were a myriad of answers from people as they spoke to their personal lives, but when it came time for me to answer, I thought for a moment and the thing that always pops to the front of my mind is my family. 

Everything else could be falling apart in my life; my job, my credit, my volunteer work, my hobbies and electronics…  But not my family.  I need to be present to my family in every way and in every action.  My cross is wondering if I am fulfilling my promise to GOD and my wife.  Are my actions good enough to carry my children and prepare them for the future?  Am I too strict in their lives or are the boundaries I set the right mixture of love and responsibility?  I am quick to anger and although I am highly conscious of this fault of mine, it is really hard to reign it in. 

With the help of my Father in Heaven, the love of my wife and the teachings of my father before me, I feel my kids are well loved and balanced.

Being a parent is the hardest thing I have done in my life but it has the most magnificent rewards.  I can only imagine how GOD felt about his son Jesus as he grew into a man and laid his life down for our salvation and our sins.

With the love of God,

B

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I am sorry – you can disagree with the President and his policy – Lord knows I have done this for the past 6 years with the BUSH administration and how they ram-rodded the Patriot acts to cut away our freedoms – but heckling the PRESIDENT – how uncouth and ugly.  Representative Joe Wilson (R) of South Carolina – you should be ASHAMED of yourself – just resign from office and save what little face you have left. 

I say we do away with all our Reps. and Senators and start from scratch – I cannot stand them and the fact that this guy has no respect for the office of the President of the United States is just plain wrong.

There is a place for debate and discussion and heckling the President while he addresses the joint session of Congress shows that we have a great internal strife in our government.  Why is it that both the far LEFT and the far RIGHT cannot pull their collective heads out of their own personal asses and sit down and discuss the facts and not cloud the matter with their political views and special interest groups viewpoints.

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President Obama just finished his speech to school students and I think it was short and to the point – an excellent speech to motivate students to STAY IN SCHOOL.

He didn’t promote ‘socialism’; He didn’t push for ‘Islam’ conversions; He didn’t bring boxes of brown shirts for the kids to put on.

It was simply a speech about not giving up and pushing yourself to be a better student.

But I am sure there are a lot of people who will find something critical in the speech.

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