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Rhonda Ortiz — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:01:31 +0000

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tacywb — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:31:15 +0000

eek! congrats! super excited for you all.

Comment on I Am Not Goat Dung Covered Over With Whitewash: Thoughts on Pentecost by Rhonda

Rhonda — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:06:54 +0000

Ack! Your beautiful reply got stuck in the spam filter. Sorry about that! All fixed now.

Comment on I Am Not Goat Dung Covered Over With Whitewash: Thoughts on Pentecost by Shirley L. Sawyer

Shirley L. Sawyer — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:05:42 +0000

Our final metaphor of the spiritual life is also spatial, and speaks of there being “a temple within.” Paul tells the Corinthians that, individually and corporately, they are temples of God’s Holy Spirit. [18] Paul Tournier refers to this inner temple as “the holy sepulchre within.” Tournier refers to this by asking, “What is there then within this sepulchre where all the repressed rubbish of all humanity as well as our own is rotting?” [19] One worship song says “Lord prepare me to be a sanctuary.” Another says “purify my heart.” Conversely, Jesus said we can “whitewash” this sanctuary. This would be to live a life of facade, pretense, what Merton called the “false self.” Therefore, spirit is a holy place where God’s Spirit dwells. To be “spiritual” is to allow God to reign in one’s spirit, which is God’s rightful dwelling place. To be “unspiritual” is to occupy that dwelling place with our own ego as king, while painting the outside so as to appear to be spiritual.

Comment on Get a Life, Mom! by Rhonda

Rhonda — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:22:35 +0000

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Comment on Get a Life, Mom! by Rhonda

Rhonda — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:21:19 +0000

Jenny, I’m with you on the home schooling question. We’re in a similar boat (two teachers for parents, both having helped do a lot with curriculum development, etc.). I don’t know if you’re implying this or not, but I definitely am interested in homeschooling not so much because of religious reasons (though they are there) but because of curricular and education reasons – how cool of an education *could* we provide our children at home? Because we’re not do-school-out-of-the-box kind of people. Anyway, it’s all speculation, and, I agree, the Holy Spirit will make it clear when the time is right.

As for your last question – I don’t know! I never noticed that before! What’s the grammatical difference between words with “-ion” and “-ism”? The first is nominalization – turning a verb into a noun. But “-ism”? It’s also a noun, right? Perhaps the “-ion” endings reflect our Latin roots. Anybody else have some thoughts on this?

Comment on Get a Life, Mom! by Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 23 May 2013 02:11:56 +0000

What, self-care as a Christian concept? You rebel, you!
Seriously though, great article and good points were raised. I feel like there is a definite strain within the “Evangelical” wing that not takes the whole super-mom thing to the step of, “If you dare to do anything besides homeschool your child, you are not being a truly Christian mother. MAYBE it would be acceptable to send them to a Christian school, but really, it is your job to teach them yourself. Duh!” As oneThis is a rather daunting challenge, and I wonder if it ever has deleterious effects. I’m not saying you have to have a degree to be a good teacher, because I don’t think you do (and there are plenty of teachers who have degrees but are not good), but I do think that teaching is a gift that not necessarily everyone has or acquires by dint of motherhood. I myself am caught in the struggle of “do we want to homeschool or not” as my eldest is approaching the preschool age. Since I am a teacher, I tend to think of the fun it would be to get to do all of my lesson planning and creative teaching with a class size of one-however many kids we have. But then I think about Ruby’s personality and how often we seem to butt heads over things that, when others ask her to do them, she complies beautifully. I think about how much she LOVES being around other kids and how ravenous she is for playing with and hanging out with others. Would I actually be doing her a disservice to insist on homeschooling her? Time (and the Holy Spirit) will tell, but I’m looking into trying to have her attend preschool at least a few times a week next fall just to see how it goes.
Also, here’s a random Catholic vs. Protestant question for you: why is that the concept of “spreading the gospel” is called “evangelization” by Catholics and “evangelism” by Protestants? I’ve noticed the term “the new evangelization” listening to Catholic radio and wondered if you knew.

Comment on Get a Life, Mom! by Jaime

Jaime — Thu, 23 May 2013 01:30:23 +0000

Well said!

Comment on To Write is to Mother – Discovering My Vocation to Write, Part One by Get a Life, Mom!

Get a Life, Mom! — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:47:36 +0000

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Comment on I Am Not Goat Dung Covered Over With Whitewash: Thoughts on Pentecost by Rhonda

Rhonda — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:38:44 +0000

Another article, for those who might be interested, on theosis by Carl Olson: http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2008/colson_theosis_dec08.asp

In it, he points to CCC 460: The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature”: “For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God.” “For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.” “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.”

He also cites this line: “We become by grace what God is by nature”.