Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.



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Posted: May 12 2006 at 5:01pm | IP Logged Quote Rebecca
All joking aside, I so appreciate all of your thoughts and responses. I realize that I am not a failure at implementation but rather that I over-plan and over-research everything. The finished product ends up being more reasonable than the initial plan. Many times, I give up too easily rather than perservering. I am trying to overcome this.

Thanks again,
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Posted: May 12 2006 at 9:21pm | IP Logged Quote Cheryl
Rebecca,

I had a great laugh with those posters. My favorite was "incompetence." Thanks for sharing the site and also for bringing up the topic. It's a good feeling to know I'm not alone.   

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Posted: May 13 2006 at 7:34am | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
I love the posters. I used to rotate through them as screensavers on the class computer when I taught middle school. The kids loved them, too, because the real motivational posters were displayed throughout the halls.

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Posted: May 14 2006 at 6:36pm | IP Logged Quote Taffy
Daily, I read meditations from The Word Among Us and the one for today reminded me of this thread. I could have written your post Rebecca as I have really been struggling with this bad habit for the past few months. The part of the meditation that caught my eye:

Have you ever seen a grapevine in the wild? Left to itself, the plant rambles through underbrush and clings to everything in its path. It puts its energy into wrapping itself around rocks, brambles, tree trunks. It produces small, usually bitter fruit. A well-tended vine—something you’d expect to find on the slopes of wine country in California or Italy—is another story entirely. This plant is tall, sturdy, and trained to produce. Thanks to careful pruning, it yields large clusters of healthy, sweet-tasting grapes.

...Characteristically, vines have two kinds of branches: those that bear fruit and those that don’t. The non-producing branches must be carefully pruned back so that the vine can devote all its resources to the fruit-bearing branches.

That is one of our major tasks in our households I think. We must be master pruners of our childrens' education. We must be astute observers of our children and be ready to toss out the stuff that doesn't produce the desired result in favour of the stuff that does. And we must be efficient in order to get rid of the non-producing branches and branches with bad fruit before they become too big to remove easily.

Just my two cents, but thought I'd share.

(The rest of the meditation can be found here.)

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