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Greetings from Hot Springs, Arkansas, My new home

8/18/2018

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Many, many blessings. My granddaughter and family are renting on a lake here. It is beautiful and can be seen from an outdoor patio, by going for a swim, or from an indoor glass enclosed patio.  
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Generally I love the ocean best, but lakes are terrific also.
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I am delighted that my arrangement with the family includes dinners cooked by my granddaughter Jenny’s geology professor husband, who is a gourmet cook. In the last year since leaving the seminary dining room, the only way I could swallow the food I cook for myself is by ruminating about how ecstatic I would be to eat this if I was in the gulag!
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The parish is wonderful -  so magisterial that the pastor actually talked about hell-fire as real!  But friendly as can be which is my second most important feature of a parish.
A thought that will amuse some readers is that philosophical types, like me, try to substitute logic for common sense…
as in trying to figure out why my family insists that the 3 year old not climb on the table to run around since they let the cats do it. 
My grand-son-in-law, with common sense, explained that if they didn’t train little Teresa not to do this, she would be considered odd when visiting friends and leaping on their tables!
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A good thought on leaving my pseudo-hermitess existence in Corpus Christi for living with this family, in my own in-law  suite, but still immersed in family life: Mary wasn’t a hermit. Jesus gave her as family John, by analogy like living with Jenny and Sean  and Teresa and new-born Julia.  
 Speculation:  Could it be that  many mother’s-in-law and son’s in-law don’t get along because this is a mother figure who never nurtured him but thinks she can criticize him and give him advice.  And the mother-in-law feels the son in-law is could be doing imprudent things that will hurt her daughter’s future….???
 Some more on the theme of Games Catholics Play. If you didn’t read the blog where I explained this title, scroll down until you find it on the date of August 5!
Another example: You learn from friends and mentors what their worst experiences have been of insult, etc. but then you use these against them years later when you are angry at them!
Still another: old Catholic biddies, such as myself,  who have no one to boss  around can do it virtually on family and other chat boards by expostulating on what everyone should be doing “my way.”
Another:  Someone, usually a woman, loads down gifts on those she wants as friends and then makes them feel guilty for not responding in kind even though said potential friend never wanted our  friendship or our gifts!  Friends are a gift of God not a repayment!
Another: I don’t need spiritual direction because priests are too busy to give such direction, they just give a few words of advice.  This leaves out praying for a spiritual director who can be anyone holier than oneself!
I’m only angry because  everyone else is so obnoxious.  But, how come others remain peaceful in the same circumstances?
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8/19/2018 07:45:26 am

There are just weird things we see on people, and we couldn't help but make a reaction towards it. Well, that should never surprise us. There are really people who are just willing to give when they think they will have something to get from them. That means, their willingness will only depend on what they can get. It's not genuine. Unfortunately, I know a lot of people who have this kind of attitude. Hopefully, this attitude will be changed forever.

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