Preparing a Room for Christ‏

by Michelle Fritz
Catholic Stand

It is like it happened yesterday, even though 4 long years have passed since that fateful December day. If I allow myself, I can see the faces, smell the air, and feel the panic that filled my heart. The nurse’s words echo in my ears, “Sit down, we have no room for you.” Pain fills my heart in a way that is indescribable. I wondered if I would get through the nightmare that I experienced while losing William. I don’t allow myself to go to this place very often. It’s a dark place, a lonely place.

It wouldn’t be until later that I would think of the similarities between the Holy Family’s and our experience. Over and over again, we were told at the hospital that there was no room for us; over and over again we pleaded for help, not just for me but more so for our baby boy. I can picture Joseph and Mary pleading as well for their baby boy only to be turned away as there was no room for them either. I can feel their worry and their distress. I felt it too, as we were turned away time and time again. Mary, heavy with child, had to feel alone. Even though she was carrying God’s child, I’m sure she wondered where He was and why they were facing so many difficulties. 

While I’ve written on this before, time has since passed and the hurt isn’t so overwhelming all the time. I can look at our experiences and try to take away something more from them. Instead of focusing solely on the hurt and the despair, I can look at the healing and the hope. I can look at how the experience of losing William helped prepare a bigger place within my heart for Christ to reside.

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Michelle is a cradle Catholic, married to her high school sweetheart Mike for the last 22 years. She is an ecletic homeschooling mom of 11 children. In addition to her children on earth she is a mother to 12 saints in heaven. She is active in the prolife community and is dedicated to protecting all children, both born and unborn. Michelle is a regular writer at Catholic Sistas, a website dedicated to sharing the truths of our faith through personal stories and article that stress adherence to the teachings of the Church. She loves Apologetics and learning all she can about our beautiful Catholic faith.

The Word Made Flesh

The Lord of Lords assumed the mold of man

And formed a bridge between both us and God.

His perfect life became the perfect plan

To bring salvation to a world thus flawed.

America is Being Strangled To Death

America is in a Progressive Choke-hold

Free Speech... For

Leftists Believe in Free Speech... for Leftists

Temper, Temper

If you can't curb your temper or your tongue

How can you be entrusted with the Word?

The devil will provoke you with his dung

Until you lose control with anger stirred.

WHAT PLANET ARE WE ON?

Realizing first & foremost I am part of a GENERATION that’s no longer relevant or pertinent, I find myself constantly asking this question: Was there a CONSPIRACY in the 50’s or 60’s to make the People in the World ,’STUPID”…..crap its worked…..It was perfect…..People in this COUNTRY & the WORLD have become so STUPID, they don’t even know they’re STUPID….Unbelievable….. Don’t you find it at interesting that a Country that can “Put A Man On The Moon” can’t solve the minutia of their own little and somewhat PETTY PROBLEMS?…..

Have we progressed or evolved  to the POINT where we ALL must WEAR Government computer-chipped Diapers & have someone from the “Hazardous Waste Dept.” come change them for us….Can it be that we can no longer breathe without the AIDE of the government ? I guess “Spoon Feeding” is next….Crap we are being SPOON FED …lie after lie (propaganda) already….This GOVERNMENT has done nearly everything in its power  to become EVERYTHING YOU NEED…..or DON’T NEED as the case may be…..

From my Cynical Sarcastic Perch I ask the QUESTION, WHAT is this that we have WROUGHT?  The FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER or DRACULA continues to LIVE because we KEPT IT ALIVE….we should have let it die…. BUT we bought the LIE….HOOK, LINE & SINKER…

If you buy the lie, then this is what I see coming down the PIKE……

< Government Brain implants to tell us what to think, when to think & even IF we should think…

< What to eat, when to eat & where to and WHERE to deposit your waste…..

< Government Housing…. (We are well on our way to this one) to control the Environment…..

<Government run MEDIA…..We have that one nailed….

<Government run …POPULATION CONTROL….that’s what WAR was always about….now we will have voluntary…or NOT…..END OF LIFE TERMINATION …..

< Government Religion…..THEY ARE NOW GOD…except MUSLIMS….

This Country of World has basically “Evolved” into one Giant “PRISON CAMP” …..you are now free to do what….not one thing….unless it meets their criteria….. And no I didn’t have a PERMIT to SAY this…

BUT YOU TELL ME…… WHAT PLANET ARE WE ON? This is not the one I grew up on & it’s not one damn bit better…..

Have A Merry And Blessed Christmas

The Birth Of Our Lord And Savior, Jesus Christ, An Unsolveable Mystery

Mysteries that Can't be Solved

By Julie Love / 22 December 2014 / 19 Comments

I like to read mystery novels.

You don't get invited to be in any book clubs when you read books like this. I like books where the caterer bakes cookies and solves a murder. Yes, I find it entirely plausible that someone can cater a 7-course meal for 100 while still engaging in competent investigative police work.

Ok?

But, there are some mysteries in this world that can't be solved.
One is the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Christ's birth, although a historical fact, is still impossible to comprehend with our small minds. Christ came into the world, the son of a virgin, fully God and fully man.

Can you fully understand that? I can't.

Then, Christ took on the sins of the world, died a horrific, painful, gruesome death and rose from the dead. Now, I can be free from sin's dominion in my life, if I choose to believe.

Can you really wrap your head around that? I don't understand it fully either.

This is why atheists call us stupid, we can't explain Godly things with our human intellect.

Does that really make me stupid? Or does it just make me someone who believes in something greater than myself?

Unlike that nosy caterer, I am not going to solve this mystery anytime soon. And, I am ok with that.

Are you?

Merry Christmas.   

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A Wonderful Life Comes With Lessons For The Soul

 

On Christmas Day in 1946, the movie, "It's A Wonderful Life," was released. Generations have viewed the story of George Bailey, a good, godly man in the town of Bedford, who met with devastating circumstances and came to wish that he had never been born.  God sent an angel to reveal to him the consequences of his absence in so many lives. George came to see that what mattered were the people.... his wife, his children, his family and all the good friends of Bedford...... LOVE that was the blessing from God all around him, no matter the circumstances that befall.

While we seek and accept our Heavenly Father in our lives, we still remain in the world, the fallen world.  We still have a sinful nature that we must control. We still have the temptations from our enemy, Satan. We still deal with people who seek to destroy our joy and increase their gains,  just as Mr. Potter in the movie sought to do with George Bailey.

Being a Christian begins the earthly battle as the prince of this earth will attack our journey with God. Being a Christian does not make us immune to "trouble," but our Lord came to save us and teach us and guide us, and in his love and grace direct our paths and hold us up as we travel in this fallen world.

God has a purpose for each one of us.  Some troubles are of our own making by our own choices.  Sometimes God will allow circumstances to surround us in order that our lessons in them will increase our faith, our maturity as a Christian, our trust in Him, and to seek His Word for our wisdom in Him.  Sometimes we must go through difficult times to be able to appreciate what is truly important and to be able to reject the false substances that we may incorrectly place as our priorities for joy and happiness.

As we journey on this earth among the trials and among the fallen ones, may we remember the One, True Light of a Savior sent to save you for an eternal life with Him in heaven.  May we first seek Him when our troubles mount. May we trust that He will be there through it with us. May we seek His path when others tell us we must give in to another way.  May we never give up or give in to the doubts of His love and provision no matter what we are going through.

We may not have an angel to journey through lessons with as George Bailey did, but we have the Holy Spirit living in us to seek and guide and provide in our needs.

Seek your Heavenly Father in all things for He is in them all.
"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."   John 16:33                                                              

Satanic Temple, Christian State Senator Mount Dueling Displays Outside Michigan Capitol

It's great to see Christians standing up and countering the trendy, politically correct, anti-Christian narrative. 
People are moving from weary to outrage at the continual caving in to some "religions" at the expense of others. 
This is America, and freedom of religion is contained within the first amendment:

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

In other words, there will be no official state religion. Thus, any religion or belief system tht seeks to deny such expression or practice is in violation of the first amendment and our Constitution. 

LYING TO AMERICA

Obama’s birth certificate: I decided to dig into this issue until I understood why people said it is a forgery, and why people say it is genuine.  The only reason to believe the LFBC is genuine is if MRC compression was used. Why it is a forgery is because of layers, a links palette, different fonts, kerning, typewriter misalignment, words used, identical elements, and  the lack of the properties of a scanned pdf file on the supposedly scanned document tells me it is a forgery.

The birth certificate is only the beginning. Obama’s SSN has problems. His selective service card appears tampered with. He only has one citizen parent and possible dual citizenship issues.  What passport was used when he went to Indonesia and back to Hawaii? What passport was used in 1981 when he traveled to Pakistan, India, and Indonesia around Ramadan? Why was his passport file illegally accessed three times? What is his actual foreign student status? Why did he room with foreign students?  How come all this got ignored? But nothing seems to be more in your face to the American public than Obama’s Long Form Birth Certificate.

Anybody that questions Obama’s LFBC gets smeared as a birther. The first people to call Obama’s Long Form Birth Certificate a forgery, was photoshoppers. The defenders of Obama’s birth certificate know this full well, but continue to use the ‘Birther’ term as a pejorative on those photoshoppers. These are people that knew how to examine a pdf file in graphics software. They ranged from amateurs to people that made a living with graphics software.  This video was done the day the LFBC was posted and shows several anomalies.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g30VCl_cgk

I was challenged to consider the Xerox WorkCentre as proving the authenticity of Obama’s Long Form Birth Certificate. The WorkCentre is an expensive, high end, multi-function copier that was used to copy Obama’s 2010 tax return that was put on the White House website. That tax return showed  the 042-68-4425 SSN of Obama’s that cannot pass e-verify. It assumes the WorkCentre scan to e-mail feature automatically optimized the pdf file of Obama’s birth certificate and thereby caused the anomalies in the BC.

This link will take you too many articles discussing the WorkCentre and related issues.  It can be very informative but very time consuming to follow the links. I easily spent 15 hours at least reviewing articles and videos on one day.  http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/2013/11/blogger-shows-obama-birth-certificate-artifacts-caused-by-xerox-machine-no-joy-in-birtherville/

These videos are what the articles are referencing.

President Obama's birth certificate is not a forgery - Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wUikUNY0yo

President Obama's Birth Certificate Is Not a Forgery - Part 2  (This is basically the same as part-1 in the second half) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFnXfYh7TBI

The LFBC is supposed to be a scanned copy of a certified document that came from Hawaii. These next two videos show the difference between the properties of a scanned LFBC and how the WH image is. The WorkCentre video only shows them creating a birth certificate, not the differences as shown here. Compare these to the first 6 minutes of  “not a forgery – Part 1” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_KfcmG9gs&feature=youtu.be  1:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S40WKxKSlHc&feature=youtu.be  2:28

At about 7:27 “not a forgery” shows the whole image rotated wrong because it was opened in Illustrator. This is misleading, because the rotation problems were related to some of the individual layers, not the entire image. How do individual layers get rotated and scaled in size? You can see it here from 1:20 to 3:30 - Obama Birth Certificate Faked In Adobe Illustrator - Official Proof 4 ( OCR / Optimizing ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW_PWzhgvDs 

What is supposed to be the real nail in the coffin is the software algorithm of Mixed Raster Content (MRC) compression. This is to be the reason for anomalies  in the LFBC. The Xerox WorkCentre scan-to-email function automatically uses MRC optimization. The second half of part 1 purportedly shows how optimization created the anomalies.

The use of the WorkCentre with the LFBC has never been verified. We do not know if it was actually used.  Other re-creations using MRC compression do not line up with the compression in the WorkCentre.  You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQUGwEZ-xDo&feature=youtu.be   In the ”faked in Adobe” video at the 10:00 mark, shows another optimization. You can see what happens to the links palette that showed the rotation problems as well.

So the WorkCentre re-creation does not seem to match other MRC compression re-creations. No explanation for the layer rotations is given. Differences in the scan properties are not explained either. I believe the WorkCentre explanation falls short.

Barack Hussein Obama: A Complete Work Of Fiction Who Became President

In the following video, Glen Beck does an excellent fact check presentation on Obama's fabricated past. It is a detailed introduction to this compilation of Obama's background from A to Z. 
This is but one of many videos contained in the following post. Some are up to 10 minutes, most others are sound bites of less than a minute backing up the written word with actual quotes.

For much more detailed information including text and more short videos:

 go here

Barack Hussein Obama: A Case Study Of How A Psychopathic Work Of Fiction Became President

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Chad Miller   

POETICALLY SPEAKING CONSERVATIVELY

"The Assault On Men In Blue!!"

POETICALLY SPEAKING CONSERVATIVELY

"An Unspeaklble Act Of Violence In NYC"

Senate Health Committee Reluctantly Releases A2270/S382 from Committee

Significant concerns cited by 

Senators‏

You Know Me

You see into the shadows of my soul.

You know me better than I know myself.

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 To you and Yours and A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

                            

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America's Bloody Hands

            New York City Runs Red With Blood Today                    

 As The Assassination's of 2 New York  City Police Officers Die Protecting US And We Have 4 Men To Blame For Their Deaths ! Our Own President Obama, Al Sharpton, Eric Holder And Mayor De Blasio All Trying To Say The Right Thing But Guess What They Can't Say Nothing Because This Is What They Asked For Now 2 innocent Cops Paid The Price For All 4 Of Them!

Married 2 months ago.

Married and 13 year old son

             SUSPECTS IN THEIR MURDERS 

They may not have pulled the trigger but they told the gunman to do it. They need to be held accountable for the assassination's of these 2 officers !

IMPEACH NOW BEFORE IT'S TO LATE

SEND TO PRISON NO TRIAL STRAIGHT TO PRISON

PRISON NO TRIAL

KING RACIST STRAIGHT TO PRISON ONE FOR WHITES ONLY BEST PLACE FOR THIS POS! THE BLACK VERSION OF FRED PHELPS SICK SICK MAN! AND HIS BUDDY JESSE JACKSON TOO!

Well America Have You Had Enough Yet??? It's time that we put these men where they belong !

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Pitts Public School Parents Apoplectic Over Propaganda, Proselytizing for Islam in Class

Pamela Geller

The ever clueless and downright dhimmies will never understand Islam. In reaction to parent outrage over the plainly obvious teaching of Islam, view this excerpt from the article below...

North Carolina: Pitts Public School Parents Apoplectic Over Propaganda, Proselytizing for Islam in Class

Pamela Geller 

More parents are waking up to the twisted propaganda being taught in public schools across the country. Our organization, AFDI and SIOA, is working with individual parents and small groups of parents to remove these dishonest lessons that are proselytizing for Islam to our childrenand intellectually disarming them about the gravest threat to our country and way of life – jihad.

TWIN SONS OF DIFFERENT MOTHERS

For days it seems like we’ve talked about the SONY PICTURES –NORTH KOREA HACKING…..and all I heard other than the Attack on SONY for being COWARDS was attacks about the LEADER…..Kim Jong Un…..The boy who would be King is portrayed as an INEPT, THIN-SKINNED NARCISSISTIC IDIOT…Who wouldn’t be a leader of anything if it weren’t for his FAMILY…..And as far as I’m concerned it’s essentially true……But think about it , these same depictions or descriptions fit someone else we all know…..BARRY…..he has and wears his THIN-SKINNED NARCISSISM like no other…..Throws the same CHILD-LIKE Temper  tantrums & wouldn’t be the LEADER of anything if it weren’t for the Color of his Skin, his allegiance to the MUSLIMS & the fact he is a MARXIST PIG….LETS FACE REALITY  HERE…..Barry & Kim Jong Un are TWO peas in a pod….Just like Castro, Chavez & any other number of BANANA REPUBLIC TYRANTS…..

Really now,  why  don’t more people see the symbolism….as well as their similarities….it’s there for all to see… EXCEPT for one thing……The North Koreans didn’t vote for their Boy-Wonder Emperor….they we’re stuck with the fat little Communist Urchin…..WE on the other hand voted our little Thin-Skinned Muslim Sociopath into office not ONCE but TWICE…..Boy aren’t we clever & brilliant….  

And I suppose to show the WORLD his COMPETENCE, his Fortitude & his Dazzling Brilliance… Barry bemoaned SONY’S caving in to the EXTORTION PLOT…… WHOA NELLIE, remember all those RED LINES IN THE SAND ….The MUSLIM MESSIAH BARRY drew?????  Did Putin, Russia, Syria, China, Iraq or ISIS run for COVER & HIDE under the bed like scared little boys? Not Even!…..they were laughing their ass of at not only BARRY but our STUPIDITY for allowing this PRICK to call the shots….

Why do we even bother with the Pomp & Circumstance of the THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT…..Is it all for SHOW or ILLUSION…..They don’t do anything but spend money  on CRAP that no one wants… Heavens the C-SPAN channel is nothing but Blithering Idiot Television at our expense….It’s not even entertaining…. Just Dog & Pony Show reruns……the real CRISIS is this GOVERNMENT & what it’s done to AMERICA…. It would seem North Korea & the U.S. do indeed have something in common....their DICTATORS..... TWIN SONS OF DIFFERENT MOTHERS

I guess you could say we are the WORLD'S largest & Newest BANANA REPUBLIC!

 http://conservativebyte.com/2014/12/obama-talking-cuba-years/