Destroying the Empire of Self

I have to post this, it is the most ironic thing I think I’ve ever seen!

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2312857420100223

Our congress and our President have vowed to create more jobs, attempting to limit jobs sent overseas, etc. Yet in reading this article, it seems to me the car of choice for our elected officials is a Toyota! And now they want to cry and spend our tax dollars on hearings to discover their cars may have defects.

So, let’s be clear….

1) Our tax dollars paid these people to buy cars made overseas
2) they have promised us to make more american jobs, yet they won’t put their money where their mouth is
3) now they are going to spend more of our tax dollars to complain in public that their cars don’t work like they want them too.

Maybe we wouldn’t own GM if more of our elected officals gave a crap about our citizens jobs.

Just my two ironic cents.

Also, just so you know…

- I don’t care if you like Toyota…I don’t…
- I don’t care if you voted for so and so, or are part of the party that is going to “fix” us, whichever party that is.
- I don’t care if you think we should or should not own GM.
- Lastly, I don’t care if you think non-American made cars are better…there are plenty of cars made right here that aren’t owned by the big 2 (Nissan perhaps)

(ps. the big two is GM and Ford….Chrysler is broke and just doesn’t know it yet.)

Bottom line, it’s just funny to me….and that’s it.

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Welcome to your 4th day Memphis Men’s Cursillo 112! It was an honor and a joy to be with you this past 3day. I pray you are blessed with Grace.

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Lately I’m finding it hard to keep up a daily prayer life. This evening someone asked me what my day was like and I responded with the usual get up, go to work, come home, kiss the kids, do some church thing, eat dinner, kiss the kids, go to bed….repeat. As I answered, it dawned on me that while most days I get some quiet time, it’s not enough.

I’ve been inconsistently doing the Liturgy of the Hours. I am currently on day 1, going into day 2 of a Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for the Cursillo weekend next week. I do have a daily prayer to God for those on my prayer list. But in all reality these are little things. If God is so important, and so valuable to my being…shouldn’t there be more?

I know some are thinking…well you are always “doing” church things and those can be prayer. Yes…but no. I still need, we all still need, personal time with Him who is King. It is the same as when my wife and I are both busy and we look at each other after a couple weeks of doing (like housework, kids, work, events, etc.) and realize our relationship has suffered because we haven’t had time to just “be” together. You know, like sit in the same room, perhaps on the same couch, without distraction or something we must accomplish. This “us” time is critical. It is what makes us “us”. It’s the marriage part. The intimacy part.

Yes, sorry men, marriage isn’t all about sex. And us Catholics do have that part down. So let’s focus on the other part…actually speaking to our wives.

Okay sorry, I’m back… Soap box is put away for now.

Anyway, the God relationship thing. Without some personal time, just He and me, my relationship with Him suffers. Ask yourself, outside of Mass, when do you spend time with Jesus? Either in Adoration, personal prayer, silence, etc.

From 12am (Friday) to 1am I have Adoration at St. Louis. I’m going to simply “be” with God. I will behold Him, the King of the Universe and instead of taking books and books, and Rosary’s, and other such stuff….I’m going to simply Behold Him for a while. I’ll have my journal and write, but mostly I just want to “be”. I want to sit on the couch with God in silence. Words aren’t necessary, and sometimes they are a distraction. He knows my heart. He knows my words. I need to SEE Him more.

I hope you have the opportunity to spend some you time with God. Put away the books, the phone, the ipod, the distractions….and just “Be.”. You’ll be surprised at how present He is, when we pay attention.

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