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Showing posts with label A Dash of Hope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A Dash of Hope. Show all posts

Monday, June 16, 2014

A Bright Spot in a Deteriorating Culture

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Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia - Family Excursion Uploaded by russavia
A friend told me this morning that her atheist husband accompanies her and their boys to church each week. I'm sure she had no idea how strongly that would strike me. I actually texted my husband about it.

We have a thing around here about men taking their families to church, whether they buy into it or not. We've always felt that a good man, a good father, takes his family to church. It's his role. Whether he falls asleep for the whole service, or his mind drifts far away, his bottom ought be in a pew as leader of his family -- if that's where his wife feels that she and her children should be.

It doesn't happen often. It's a rather common occurrence for moms to cart their children to church each week, struggles and all, while dad sits in front of the television.  Granted, situations are individual and it's easy to make a blanket statement, but not necessarily appropriate to apply it universally.  Each family must find their own way.  Still, here's to the man who takes his wife and boys to church at the expense of his own comfort. Here's to a leader and protector who merits respect. He's made our day. May their family be held ever in the arms of Almighty God.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.  ~G. K. CHESTERTON, The New Jerusalem

Pax Christi dear ones,
~Michelle

Thursday, January 12, 2012

A (Significant) Dash of Hope...Installment Three


Here's the next dash of hope for, ...and in, ...the next generation. Mothers and single women, ...take heart.

Give it a click:

Not GENTLEmen, but gentleMEN @ Catholic Author.




Installment Two is here.

"And all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well."
~Julian of Norwich

Pax Christi,
~Michelle

Thursday, December 22, 2011

A (Signficant) Dash of Hope...Installment Two


Here's the next dash of hope for, ...and in, ...the next generation. Mothers and single women, ...take heart.

Give it a click:
Real Men Rescue Women from Fire Breathing Dragons @ Spreading the Fragrance.


Installment One is here.

"And all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well."
~Julian of Norwich

Pax Christi,
~Michelle

Saturday, December 10, 2011

A (Signficant) Dash of Hope: "I'd Rather Have a Proverbs 31 Woman, than a Victoria's Secret Model"

Worried about your daughter's future?  Worried about your own prospects for finding a godly husband?

If anyone has concerns for future generations, this ought to shore you up.

Take a look at the video to catch a glimpse of a movement sparked by Alex Eklund, student at Baylor University, that caught instantaneously, and is on fire among Christ-focused college students.



Visit the movement's Facebook page, and give it a "like" if you are so inclined.

You can read Proverbs 31: 10:31 here.


"And all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well."
~Julian of Norwich
~~~~~

Dash of Hope, number two, is here.

Pax Christi,
~Michelle