Empowering Daughters of God

 In 2004, my first year of college, the University required freshmen to take a series of lecture classes.  You had to pick 4 lectures to attend.  The titles of these lectures were vast in their variety.  Many of these talks were to increase your thinking (groom your thoughts), and add diversity to your worldview (brainwash you).  Why do I say groom your thoughts and brainwash you? First of all I'm not against hearing differing opinions and viewpoints.  Many of these lectures were just that, differing opinions and viewpoints.  Some of these lectures did not use accurate information and did not tell the whole story.  Some had the intention to make you think a certain way, one way. I decided to go to a lecture on the Founding Fathers of this great nation.  I ended up walking out early because all I heard was how awful they were.  This was the first time I saw/heard these arguments.  This "side" of the story eventually became the 1619 p...

]= "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, …” -A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens Charles Dickens used the back drop of a pre-French Revolution to tell an epic tale of love, sacrifice, and redemption.  As with all of Dickens' writings, he is teaching profound morals that center around a person's ability to change and society's ability to be resurrected (made new and whole again).  This is a story about how society falls into chaos, becomes institutionalized, and human life is so cheap that killing comes with ease and without emotion.  This story is about how things are not always what they appear to be.......someone who we see as bad, may actually be good and someone we perceive as good may not be so good.   In this story Dickens focuses on the value of human life, as one character sacrifices his life for another.  Dickens...

  "A father is a thing that is forced to endure childbirth, without an anesthetic. A father is a thing that growls when it feels good–and laughs loud when it’s scared half to death. A father never feels entirely worthy of worship in his child’s eyes. He never is quite the hero his daughter thinks, never quite the man his son believes him to be. This worries him, sometimes, so he works too hard to try and smooth the rough places in the road for those of his own who will follow him. A father is a thing that gets very angry when school grades aren’t as good as he thinks they should be. He scolds his son although he knows it’s the teacher’s fault. Fathers grow old faster than other people. And while mothers can cry where it shows, fathers stand there and beam outside–and die inside. Fathers have very stout hearts, so they have to be broken sometimes or no one would know what is inside. Fathers give daughters away to other men who aren’t nearly good enough so they can have grandchildre...

Awestruck means to be very impressed and amazed by something.  What does it mean to be in awe?  Awe means a reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder.  I'm not even sure these definitions bring real justice to the meaning of the words. The recent solar eclipse has left me with much to think about as many converse about the beauty, the uniqueness, and the phenomenons of nature.  Of the many podcasts I listen to, they all had much to say about the eclipse.  I was also a witness to it, but not in its totality.  I was a witness to 50% totality.  Anyway, there were many different thoughts on it.  Some said they were in awe and that it was the most miraculous and beautiful thing they had ever seen!  Being in darkness, seeing stars, and hearing the changes in nature in the middle of the day was a unique experience like none other they ever had before.  My son thought it was the most amazing thing he'd ever seen!  Others said it was ...

Now that the Mad Month of March has ended, I hope life will slow down a bit.  No, I'm not talking about college basketball!  March was truly mad for me!  From lots of sickness to frustrations and break downs, 2024 has not been going great.  I only hope it will improve from here. I have increased frustration about parenting, schooling and the way things are going.  Why do I do hard things?  When I talk to friends or other moms I have a hard time hiding my feelings and sometimes I think they are surprised at how real I am.  I don't have time to waste being fake or pretending things are better than they are.  If I'm not real with myself, then what's the point?  As I have begun to purge my house of baby things, I find myself feeling guilty for not having more children.  I go to Home school co ops and see other women with anywhere from 3 to 11 kids and they make it look so easy.  I know it's not, but I often ask myself why can't I do tha...