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Just A Small Request

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In the 12 years I’ve blogged, I’ve known about Mark Shea for probably 10 of them because we used to be part of blogs4God, a now-defunct blogging portal. I think I’ve read his blog a handful of times because I’m not Catholic and we occupy just very different parts of the Christian blogosphere. I respect him as I respect most everybody because he knows his stuff and I’ll defer to him on the subject of Catholicism as he would (hopefully) defer to me on Lutheran stuff.

So… having said all that, he’s under attack because apparently he doesn’t like Mitt Romney and he *gasp* showed admiration for a gay man. Yeah, I know… the world somehow did not implode and my life will go on.

So… could I please ask Thomas McDonald (my mistake — his was satire), Fr. Peter West, and all the other people who have decided to rip Mark apart and make his life hell (because, you know, his writing is a source of income for his family and the scorn of these gentlemen’s followers could really mess with that) please get your heads out of your butts and act like Christians? God is not glorified by any of this and actually, it gives Catholics a bad name when you cannibalize each other.

And, as I’m sure Fr. West and a few others might want to link this blog as an example of the kind of unsavory characters that stand up for Mark Shea, BRING IT!!!! Just remember that my first name is spelled with one “n”, I read ecclesiastical Latin fluently (even though I’m a heretic Lutheran), and if you say one bad thing about my son Daniel, SO HELP ME GOD, I WILL BEAT THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF YOU!!!!!

Snuggles,
jen

P.S. Thanks to Calah for the head’s up!

The Simple Woman’s Daybook: September 3, 2012

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FOR TODAY September 3, 2012

Outside my window… sunny. Not too bad in terms of temperature — DEFINITELY better than triple digits!

I am thinking… about the devotions I’m editing and prettying up for a devotional book being put together by a friend of the family.

I am thankful… for Jon home today to watch Daniel while I ran errands.

In the kitchen… orzo with pesto, feta, and kalamata olives. (Going to go put the water on. Be back in a minute.)

I am wearing… Old Navy flag shirt and my Left Behind shorts.

I am creating… food and devotions.

I am going… to possibly take Daniel to the Sacramento Zoo tomorrow morning.

I am wondering… when our next rainstorm will be. (I love rain even if my body doesn’t.)

I am reading… Bossypants by Tina Fey.

I am hoping… tomorrow goes well and Daniel’s regressive behaviors cease.

I am looking forward to… Morning Prayer on Wednesday.

I am learning not to try and edit stuff once I’m exhausted.

Around the house… *puts fingers in ears* Lalalalalalalala… I can’t hear you!

A favorite quote for today… “My own experience is that when I first became a Christian, about fourteen years ago, I thought that I could do it on my own, by retiring to my rooms and reading theology, and I wouldn’t go to the churches and Gospel Halls; and then later I found that it was the only way of flying your flag; and, of course, I found that this meant being a target. It is extraordinary how inconvenient to your family it becomes for you to get up early to go to Church. It doesn’t matter so much if you get up early for anything else, but if you get up early to go to Church it’s very selfish of you and you upset the house. If there is anything in the teaching of the New Testament which is in the nature of a command, it is that you are obliged to take the Sacrament, and you can’t do it without going to Church. I disliked very much their hymns, which I considered to be fifth-rate poems set to sixth-rate music. But as I went on I saw the great merit of it. I came up against different people of quite different outlooks and different education, and then gradually my conceit just began peeling off. I realized that the hymns (which were just sixth-rate music) were, nevertheless, being sung with devotion and benefit by an old saint in elastic-side boots in the opposite pew, and then you realize that you aren’t fit to clean those boots. It gets you out of your solitary conceit.” — C.S. Lewis on hymns. (I had a portion of it on my mind earlier today.)

One of my favorite things… decent and authentic Greek food. Jon and I took Daniel to the Sacramento Greek Festival yesterday and it was awesome. Jon had some tiropita and I had an amazing gyro along with buying a dozen pieces of baklava which were the biggest I’ve ever seen. Daniel enjoyed parts of both the tiropita and gyro. He is developing good taste in cuisine even if he wasn’t impressed by the baklava. (Who doesn’t like baklava?!?!?!?!? Seriously!)

A few plans for the rest of the week: doing whatever tomorrow with Daniel, Morning Prayer on Wednesday and Thursday, breakfast date with Jon on Friday.

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