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I'm sorry if I came across judgementally. I was not well catechized and learned a lot from articles like these.
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Thank you Jen and Sarah for stating your beliefs in a charitable tone.
The Mother Nurture forum's goal is to be a place for ...
Encouraging, supportive, informative, and often humorous chat to energize and reassure
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One thing that has come to my attention since the election is the need to be praying for Obama, Biden, and the entire cabinet, as they prepare to lead this nation. While I may not have voted for them, as a faithful citizen, I believe they deserve and need our unceasing prayers.
It is no small coincidence that Pope Benedict focused on Hope during his recent visit to the U.S. and that he also has declared this the year of St. Paul. May we all be led to pray through the powerful intercession of St. Paul for all those who have been chosen to lead us, whether we agree with those choices or not, and may those prayers be especially fruitful in helping protect the unborn and all life. Let us hold fast to Hope in the days to come!
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1Timothy 2:1-3
I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, 2for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. 3This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior
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I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices.
You will grieve, but your grief will turn to JOY. ~John 16:20 NIV
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I see a few other bright spots in an Obama presidency that have have nothing to do with politics.
He has little kids. We haven't had in a little kids in the office for a long time so this should be kind of fun.
I don't care for Michelle Obama, but I find that I do enjoy her sense of fashion. Someone mentioned that she is a lot like Jackie Kennedy in her love of simple sheath dresses. So I am looking forward to her sense of style.
Obama wants young black men to pull their pants up! I am so sick of the droopy drawers on young black and white men that I hope he can influence them to dress nicer and pull their pants up!!
(I voted McCain/Palin) 
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Elena wrote:
Obama wants young black men to pull their pants up! I am so sick of the droopy drawers on young black and white men that I hope he can influence them to dress nicer and pull their pants up!!
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 Did he actually SAY this?
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I like how he wants a shelter dog.
I vote two thumbs up on presidential trouser style influence! I am so glad my own son prefers Boy Scout cargo pants to low-slung jeans.
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Thank you, Michaela for those verses....they will be posted in a promininet place in our home, prayed over, meditated upon, and referred to often! I really needed those words of grace!
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Obama: Here is my attitude: I think people passing a law against people wearing sagging pants is a waste of time. We should be focused on creating jobs, improving our schools, health care, dealing with the war in Iraq, and anybody, any public official, that is worrying about sagging pants probably needs to spend some time focusing on real problems out there. Having said that, brothers should pull up their pants. You are walking by your mother, your grandmother, your underwear is showing. What's wrong with that? Come on. There are some issues that we face, that you don't have to pass a law, but that doesn't mean folks can't have some sense and some respect for other people and, you know, some people might not want to see your underwear — I'm one of them. Obama says - pull your pants up!
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That MTV link was a fun read. Maybe I should wander over there more often.
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Elena wrote:
Obama: Here is my attitude: I think people passing a law against people wearing sagging pants is a waste of time. We should be focused on creating jobs, improving our schools, health care, dealing with the war in Iraq, and anybody, any public official, that is worrying about sagging pants probably needs to spend some time focusing on real problems out there. Having said that, brothers should pull up their pants. You are walking by your mother, your grandmother, your underwear is showing. What's wrong with that? Come on. There are some issues that we face, that you don't have to pass a law, but that doesn't mean folks can't have some sense and some respect for other people and, you know, some people might not want to see your underwear — I'm one of them. Obama says - pull your pants up! |
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Now that is some change I could support!
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I could support it too!
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To follow up on Michaela's post on 1 Tim. 2: 1-3...the Navarre Commentary gives a beautiful prayer, from St. Clement of Rome, one of the first successors of St. Peter...it is worthy of repeating in these days as well;
"Make us to be obedient to Your own Almighty and Glorious Name and to all who have rule and governance over us here on earth...Grant unto them, O Lord, health and peace, harmony and security, that they may exercise without offence the dominion You have accorded them...Vouchsafe so to direct their counsels as may be good and pleasing in Your sight, that in peace and mildness they might put to godly use the authority You have given them, and so find mercy with You. "
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