“You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds…
What you cannot turn to good, you must at least make as little bad as you can.”
St. Thomas More
(the Sheriff trying to get the hang of a crab net / Julie Cook / 2021)
So upon my return from being away 7 days, I did what most stupid
gullible, people do..
I felt compelled to see what had been newsworthy in my absence…
what was news worthy.
Ohhhhh, what a loaded idea that would be…
There were just so many stories…
so much so that I’m having a difficult time focusing on that one
news story that needs to be showcased.
Well firstly, I did catch a nauseating story about how Mademoiselle Squad member
seems to think we need to include reading, writing and race theory within our
preschool curriculums…
Hummmm….
Ok, so here is your favorite retired educator’s take on this latest banter
of idiocy…
It seems that those self-proclaimed wizards behind the mirror have
deemed that we need to be teaching our most wee and impressionable children
Critical Race Theory–or so they say??!!
Teaching propaganda in our public schools.
Hummmm….
Teaching wee children how not to be racists…
Wait, what exactly is a racist??
According to Merriam…a racist is: a belief that race is a fundamental
determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences
produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
Hummm…
Wait, I thought brown, black, yellow and white were all created equal
and precious in His sight….
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free,
there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:28
So might we note that we adults are having an incredible challenge
with crime.
Forget race…crime has taken the forefront of our lives.
We are killing one another at such a rapid pace that we are unable
to keep count.
There is an exponentially critical spike in violent crimes…
in particular that of murder.
Mlle Squad member wants to educate our wee ones on how not to be racist but
we adults are busy killing the innocents.
Hummm…
This Nation of ours just had a one year old shot in a convenient store
in Philly this past weekend.
That is unacceptable yet Mlle Squad member seems to think teaching CRT is
just that in a nutshell, critical.
Forget murder…forget hate…forget rage…
More later…
“Finally—and this is perhaps the most difficult aspect of what
concerns the practice of conformity to the will of God—
we should desire virtue itself and the degrees of grace only insofar
as God wishes to give them, and not desire more.
Our whole ambition should be to attain the degree of perfection
that has been appointed for us, since it has not been given to everybody
to reach the same height.
It is obvious that however well we may correspond with the graces given us,
we can never equal the humility, charity and other virtues of the Blessed Virgin.
And who can even presume to imagine that he can reach the same heights
as the Apostles?
Who can equal St. John the Baptist whom Christ called the greatest
of the children of men? Or St. Joseph to whom God entrusted His Son?
In this we must as in all else submit to the will of God.
He must be able to say of us, My will is in them;
it rules and governs everything.
So when we hear or read that God in a short time has brought some souls
to a very high degree of perfection and shown them signal favors,
enlightened their understanding and imbued their hearts with His love,
we should repress any desire to be treated likewise so as not to fall short
in pure love of conformity to His Will.
We should even unite ourselves still more closely to His Will by saying,
‘I praise Thee, O Lord, and bless Thee for deigning to show Thyself with
so great love and familiarity to the souls Thou has chosen …'”
Jean Baptiste Saint-Jure, p. 75-76
An Excerpt From
Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence
cookiecrumbstoliveby 
I am sure you have noticed that evil is no longer in hiding. It is shouting from the roof tops .
Oh that it is— looking for a St Michael with a sword making clear the path of the coming King!
I know that not watching or listening to anything news related is sort of like an ostrich burying his head in the sand, but the sand is so comfortable. I’ve been trying to live without it, but it’s everywhere. It comes to a point where we simply need to let go and let God do what He does best – make order out of chaos. That may seem a copout to some, but He’s really the only One who can achieve what we so ignobly cannot. I’m looking forward to more pictures of your time off. Such sweetie pies those little ones are.
Trying to tie in their exploits with the bigger picture — it makes the heavy commentary a bit lighter 🥲🥰
They’re so cute🥰🥰
They have their moments 🤣
I’ve been permanently brainwashed into thinking we are all equal, and that, since we are equal there is no need to point out any ways that we are different. It is permanent, set in stone (my head). I can just see myself at ten years old, seated in a class there the teacher says “Now here is Oneta. Tell me how she is different from Elsie.” They chimed out, “She’s fat.” “Okay,” says the teacher, “she is fat and carries more than her share of critical weight, but we are all going to be good to her anyway.” My, that will make me feel so equal! LOL
I mean really— are we going backwards or what???!!!
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Good post as usual, but when we teach our children that the white people have oppressed the black people and that the white people should be second rate citizens for a few hundred years, we are not teaching anyone to NOT be a racist, just racism in a different direction. We will never see MLK Jr.’s dream of seeing the character of another person. We will always see skin color if we accept CRT, and CRT is false except in rare instances.
But I wholeheartedly agree on the other issues. The Dems eliminated God from government and only God can fix the true hate crimes, murders, theft, etc. It is hard creating a moral code while ignoring the author of out internal sense of morality.
I like to think of crt as crappie race teaching— a race towards separation vs togetherness – a race toward resentment and not healing— woke crap plain and simple!
Amen
Sigh, critical race theory, what a farce. Teaching people to be racists to combat perceived racism is insane. Such is our world today though and pointing such things out will get you called, you guessed it, a racist!
I swear Tricia, the lunacy is escalating and multiplying at too great a speed for us to keep up— and honestly, it is rather scary!