I know what I don't want to be part of. I do not want to be part of a culture of death. I do not want to stand face to face with a woman who tells me she had no choice but to visit with someone who believed her only path to wholeness was to rip her baby from her womb and not have been able to save her from that horror.
I know I want to be about empowerment and sharing with woman the very strength we possess that is being stolen and manipulated into, "our strength is in freedom" and that kind of freedom being referred to is childless or lives only in the life with children of intention.
I beg to ask how many woman have willed their conception? How many women have said this month of September is the month that agrees with my schedule and subsequently in June have birthed their purposeful child?
If woman could recognize the gift of motherhood and stand to defend the lives of their children in any case, yes even in the case of rape, can you imagine the women we would be? Strong, vivacious, brilliant, defiant even. I know I want to be joined with women who will stand for their rights. The right to no longer be victimized by a culture that says we are only worthy when we are weak. A culture that says we are too weak to birth, too weak to break up, too weak to survive,too weak to tell our parents, too weak to give our child the gift of adoption, too weak to let anyone know. Why? Why do our children have to die?

Christian Soldiers

"There is no Easy Button in real life. Look at a crucifix and there you will see your model. Servanthood, laying down our lives that’s what we are called to, and it’s totally different from what the world says. Jesus is our example. He was Lord but came to serve not to be served. If I can remember this in my role with my children things go much better. I am here to facilitate their learning, serve them in their needs etc. I don’t have all the answers, I am seeker like so many others but I am trying to constantly be open to helping my children discover who they are and become the person God created them to be."
Michele Quigley (Homeschooling Mom of 10 Michele Quigley.net)

What if Mary already told us?

So many of us question, how can we know? If only we had a messenger from heaven... Yet so many of us search for the answers in the news that only increasingly tells us that on one hand it is really bad and none of us are doing enough yet on the other hand it isn't as bad as one thinks and if we all just became vegetarians, recycled and praised whomever we think that "god" is in the fresh air on some vacation sebatacle we are sure to find some sort of inner peace. Yet so many of us long, so many search, in the face of death we all cry out. We cry out as the ones we love leave this world and many among us are so painfully uncertain that what their love ones will face is nothing.
I am curious why this is alarming when the same people claim, before they experience life in the trenches that there isn't a God more of an essence maybe and there isn't a Supreme being capable of causing death that inevitable causes pain. Concluding that if there is pain there is no God if there are ways to live by that are unpleasurable there can not be a God. Yet so many find themselves feeling the effects of unemployment, less food, depression, uncertainty, addiction and disease and start to wonder, IS THERE ANYBODY LISTENING?
Why is it then that we aren't all talking about Mary's apparitions, why isn't there a buzz about Mary? Children, Men and Women of many faiths, no faith, barefoot and lonely in the wilderness are telling us she has a message, they heard her, they saw her and she is talking to us- She the mother of Jesus. She has told others secrets before that have unfolded before the visionaries very eyes, they have lived the massacre of Rwanda, they have heard the horrors of WWII yet we turn a deaf ear.
Most of us would rather read some over published piece of garbage like, The Secret, that tells us to focus more on ourselves. If we had all the answers would we be crying out? There are no atheists in a fox hole.