For my first post, I've just gotta say, I am an ass. Truly. I say things when I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm constantly learning things, which means I'm ignorant of so much. And I don't think through my actions most of the time. I am often not doing much intentionally. I'm not very nice sometimes. I say mean things, I'm sarcastic, I'm angry about the smallest, least significant things. And unforgiving.. oh my goodness. Sometimes the cloud is black around me. And luckily enough for me, Jesus loves the asses and died for them so that if they should realize their being asses, say their sorry and try to do better, truly, next time, then things my get better for them with His help. So, I admit it again. I'm an ass. An often repentant, sometimes unaware of it, ass.
I recently got myself into quite a brain hurricane, worrying that I had said to much, worrying that I would lose a friend over a comment on a facebook page. It was just one of those things.. Something strikes a chord, you blurt out what occurs to you, you hit post and then... satisfied with yourself, you get enmeshed with the page. Your brain is distracted for the rest of the day.. thinking that perhaps you've gotten in it wrong, that maybe you should have said this... And when the dust settles, I still would have said it all again because I didn't say anything bad... I just wish I hadn't written quite so much... and ... Anyway.
I'm tired of that feeling and thinking and want to try something different. I resolve to try to take my things here first. So... away we go.
Today I read two great articles on the Catholic Culture web page linked from Facebook. One about The Journal of Medical Ethics printing an article arguing for infanticide as being a logical extension of abortion and that a baby is not a person until it can examine it's life. Hmmm... Father Rocky on Relevant Radio had also said that he was not surprised by the kinds of things we're seeing in our culture. He said he's not surprised because he's studied history. In the past, when a culture kills its children in abortion or infanticide or whatever, the children when their older, can't take the pressure now put on them by the lack of population to help out and begin to kill the old! Wow. I want to research that more, but what a striking, logical thought.
Also in the same vein about the ridiculous statement by a Cardinal that we should repent for Global warming.
It is good to see things explained so well on this site.
