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Welcome to "Thoughts for Moms"
Dear Friends,
"Thoughts for Mom" is a special place to receive spiritual
sustenance related to the vocation of motherhood. Here I will post
various reflections — from popes, saints, and Catholic writers,
to my thoughts and yours — to help us better live our mission
as Moms, and to help us give our vocation the depth of meaning God
intended it to have.
Once
more, you and I both have something to share, so please join me
in adding meditations and personal insights in the comments section
under each post, or contacting me at holly@mothersruleoflife.com
with your own reflection to add.
God Bless,
Holly Pierlot
Ask Whatever You Will, and It Shall be Done...
"When God is loved, He very readily answers the requests of His lover. This He teaches through St John: If you abide in Me, ask whatever you desire and it shall be done unto you.[John 15:7] A person can truthfully call God Beloved when he is wholly with Him, does not allow his heart attachment to anything outside of Him, and thereby ordinarily centers his mind on Him... Some call the Bridegroom beloved, whereas He is not really their beloved because their heart is not set on Him... They do not obtain their request until through perseverance in prayer they keep their spirit more continually with God and their heart with its affectionate love more entirely set on HIm. Nothing is obtained from God except by love."
John of the Cross in "The Spiritual Canticle", in "The Collected Works of St John of the Cross, Trans. K. Kavanaugh & O. Rodrigues, ICS Publications, Washington D.C. 1979, p421
posted by Holly at 10:38 PM
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Children Belong to Themselves...and to God
"Parents, teachers,educators, ministers and priests must all remember that our responsibility is not to form, change or transform young people, but to be good shepherds. Our role is not to manipulate people or to make people in our own image. We are gardeners. We put water on the seed and remember that the seed has it's own life... Our responsibility is to help people find their inner freedom. People belong to themselves before they belong to their parents. They belong to God."
Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche, in "Jean Vanier, Images of Love, Words of Hope", Lancelot Press, Hansport Nova Scotia, 1991, p57
posted by Holly at 8:43 PM
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Children Are Terribly Intuitive
"A number of years ago I visited a hospital for children with severe handicaps. In the middle of the hospital ward was a television which the nurses watched while attending to the children. Children are terribly intuitive. They sense what is happening around them. These children knew the nurses were more interested in the television than in them... A person knows when he or she is valued and loved. We give value to people by the way we look at them, by the way we listen to them, by the way we touch them and care for them. We give value to them by the way we are present to them."
Jean Vanier, founder of L'arche in "Jean Vanier, Images of Love, Words of Hope" , Lancelot Press, Hantsport Nove Scotia, c1991, p11-12
posted by Holly at 3:38 PM
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Trained in the Way They Should Go...
"I am seeing children who are being raised to be children all of their lives. They are being trained, but not in the way they should go... In another twenty years, the entertainment-focused Christian youth of today will be the entertainment-focused adults who act much like they did in their teen years... If the years of one's youth mean one fun activity or sport after another, when do children learn to enjoy work? Must our children always have great fun while being educated? Will it spoil their childhood if they don't have lots of playtime?... The essence of Proverbs 22:6 is that we reap what we sow."
Steven Maxwell in "Preparing Sons, to provide for a single-income family", Communication Concepts Inc, USA, c2001, p53-54
posted by Holly at 6:53 PM
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