I need to add to my favorite quotes from students.
1. "You smell like chocolate chip cookies!" - Grady
2. "Why aren't you married yet?" -Landon
"She's not even old enough to get married yet!" - Rebecca
"Yes, she is, and I have the perfect guy for her! Louis!" - Grady
P.S. Louis is Grady's 14 year old brother!
More to come, I am positive!
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Ramblings of a crazy woman...
Why is it that when we make a mistake, whether it is something minor, like a small child (or a teenager) taking a piece of candy from one of the bins at a grocery store to the even bigger mistakes we just keep on doing it? Yes it is easier to fall back in to old habits and routines rather than put froth a conscious effort to try and better yourself. Whether you believe in a god, or just being a decent human beign with a moral code it shows a great deal about a man or woman's character. Courage is not walking into a situation blindly and hoping it all turns out well, and that in the moment you may make the right decision. Courage is protecting yourself, you dignity by making a decision ahead of time, by knowing what decision you will make before you encounter that situation. Courage is when that situation presents itself you stick to your guns, whether or not the choice you will make will be the popular one. Growing up my mother had a quote posted on our pantry doors that read, "What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right." I wish that I had appreciated the efforts my mom and dad went through to make sure they were teaching me correct principles, and show that appreciation more readily. I wish that as siblings we had shown our appreciation for their concerns for us, our safety, and our salvation rather than right off the efforts as the crazed wishes of our parents. I know my parents want the best for each and every one of my siblings, and I hope that to the day I die I make them proud of me. I know that the sacrifices they have made to help me succeed, to put me through school have not been easy. I hope they know how pleased I am to say they are my parents, how grateful I am for their examples.
I am sure my children, one day, will say I am a crazed parent, a product of the generation I grew up in...but I hope they know I had 2 wonderful examples of how a parent cares and loves their children, and it is them that I do it for. If that reasoning is not enough... I'll blame it on their grandparents!
I am sure my children, one day, will say I am a crazed parent, a product of the generation I grew up in...but I hope they know I had 2 wonderful examples of how a parent cares and loves their children, and it is them that I do it for. If that reasoning is not enough... I'll blame it on their grandparents!
The Real Meaning of a well known Chirstmas Song
The Origin of the Twelve Days of Christmas
You're all familiar with the Christmas song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" I think. To most it's a delightful nonsense rhyme set to music. But it had a quite serious purpose when it was written.
It is a good deal more than just a repetitious melody with pretty phrases and a list of strange gifts.
Catholics in England during the period 1558 to 1829, when Parliament finally emancipated Catholics in England, were prohibited from ANY practice of their faith by law - private OR public. It was a crime to BE a Catholic.
"The Twelve Days of Christmas" was written in England as one of the "catechism songs" to help young Catholics learn the tenets of their faith - a memory aid, when to be caught with anything in *writing* indicating adherence to the Catholic faith could not only get you imprisoned, it could get you hanged, or shortened by a head - or hanged, drawn and quartered, a rather peculiar and ghastly punishment I'm not aware was ever practiced anywhere else. Hanging, drawing and quartering involved hanging a person by the neck until they had almost, but not quite, suffocated to death; then the party was taken down from the gallows, and disembowelled while still alive; and while the entrails were still lying on the street, where the executioners stomped all over them, the victim was tied to four large farm horses, and literally torn into five parts - one to each limb and the remaining torso.
The songs gifts are hidden meanings to the teachings of the faith. The "true love" mentioned in the song doesn't refer to an earthly suitor, it refers to God Himself. The "me" who receives the presents refers to every baptized person. The partridge in a pear tree is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. In the song, Christ is symbolically presented as a mother partridge which feigns injury to decoy predators from her helpless nestlings, much in memory of the expression of Christ's sadness over the fate of Jerusalem: "Jerusalem! Jerusalem! How often would I have sheltered thee under my wings, as a hen does her chicks, but thou wouldst not have it so..."
The other symbols mean the following:
2 Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments
3 French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues
4 Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists
5 Golden Rings = The first Five Books of the Old Testament, the "Pentateuch", which gives the history of man's fall from grace.
6 Geese A-laying = the six days of creation
7 Swans A-swimming = the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments
8 Maids A-milking = the eight beatitudes
9 Ladies Dancing = the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit
10 Lords A-leaping = the ten commandments
11 Pipers Piping = the eleven faithful apostles
12 Drummers Drumming = the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostle's Creed
You're all familiar with the Christmas song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" I think. To most it's a delightful nonsense rhyme set to music. But it had a quite serious purpose when it was written.
It is a good deal more than just a repetitious melody with pretty phrases and a list of strange gifts.
Catholics in England during the period 1558 to 1829, when Parliament finally emancipated Catholics in England, were prohibited from ANY practice of their faith by law - private OR public. It was a crime to BE a Catholic.
"The Twelve Days of Christmas" was written in England as one of the "catechism songs" to help young Catholics learn the tenets of their faith - a memory aid, when to be caught with anything in *writing* indicating adherence to the Catholic faith could not only get you imprisoned, it could get you hanged, or shortened by a head - or hanged, drawn and quartered, a rather peculiar and ghastly punishment I'm not aware was ever practiced anywhere else. Hanging, drawing and quartering involved hanging a person by the neck until they had almost, but not quite, suffocated to death; then the party was taken down from the gallows, and disembowelled while still alive; and while the entrails were still lying on the street, where the executioners stomped all over them, the victim was tied to four large farm horses, and literally torn into five parts - one to each limb and the remaining torso.
The songs gifts are hidden meanings to the teachings of the faith. The "true love" mentioned in the song doesn't refer to an earthly suitor, it refers to God Himself. The "me" who receives the presents refers to every baptized person. The partridge in a pear tree is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. In the song, Christ is symbolically presented as a mother partridge which feigns injury to decoy predators from her helpless nestlings, much in memory of the expression of Christ's sadness over the fate of Jerusalem: "Jerusalem! Jerusalem! How often would I have sheltered thee under my wings, as a hen does her chicks, but thou wouldst not have it so..."
The other symbols mean the following:
2 Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments
3 French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues
4 Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists
5 Golden Rings = The first Five Books of the Old Testament, the "Pentateuch", which gives the history of man's fall from grace.
6 Geese A-laying = the six days of creation
7 Swans A-swimming = the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments
8 Maids A-milking = the eight beatitudes
9 Ladies Dancing = the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit
10 Lords A-leaping = the ten commandments
11 Pipers Piping = the eleven faithful apostles
12 Drummers Drumming = the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostle's Creed
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