You've Got Mail

We've all heard that familiar phrase. Today I got the latest thing I drudged up on EBay. It is a slim vintage Zippo with metal sculpted artwork on the side of the Madonna and Child. When my friends Eric and Kevin saw it, they called it heretical. I suppose, being a lighter, it has the potential to kill and/or inflict cancer. I don't smoke now, but I did socially in the past when I'd go the the bars or out bowling. Not the brightest time in my life, but what can I say, I'm human, I'm not perfect, therefore I am capable of doing some pretty dumb things. I do however have a lot of lighters from my past. I like the look and feel of a Zippo, and respect that it has over 75 years of American craftsmanship. In the next few years I wouldn't be surprised if I had a few more Zippos.

I'm going to state now that this blog will be lengthy, jump around a lot and wont at all tie together. I just feel that since I'm doing this "blogging" that I want to get out a few things that I have been having on my mind lately.
Today I decided that I need to commit to making it to adoration at least an hour a week. I realize that this wont change the world, but maybe, it can help transform my world and my soul. I want to strengthen my convictions as a defender of the unborn and lately, I haven't been doing so well. I lack the boldness that the opposition has. I pray that God may keep me humble and meek, but not when it comes to defending others, especially those who cannot speak up for their rights.
I'm a little disheartened with the media and our society in general today. Today in the break room I was bored on my lunch and just paging through some of the magazines, and I came upon "Glamor". Appalling, to sum it up in one word. There are articles in there about polls on how many women admit to not going back to their homes on the first date, how many women actually keep a tally of how many men they have slept with; there was even a blurb and a glorified photo of this chick from the evangelical church who was supposedly a bishop. Why do women do this to themselves? Basically, the way I see it, women demand all this respect from men and try to be their equal in everything, and all the are doing is losing more respect than ever before. Can they not see the beauty there is in just being a woman? Isn't it a hard enough task to just do what we were created to do? To nurture and support life? Men and women both need to do what they were created for. This is our minimum vocation as God's Children.
I am certain this is one of the worst points in the history of our great nation that women get abused and taken advantage of. It's no wonder when women let men have sex with them whenever they feel like, take birth control and the morning afters and let people kill their unborn babies while casually calling it "abortion of a fetus" (It frustrates me, but doesn't surprise me, how they always dehumanize the unborn)
There is little True Love in today's society.
It's no wonder.
How can you love what you can't even respect?
I'm convinced that Love wont be in full bloom again until people respect life, respect our bodies, and above all, respect God.
As a whole, we are a Godless society.... we have actors, actresses and entertainers that we worship.
I feel very blessed that I have as many truly catholic and conservative friends as I do. If I did not, I would have no hope.

God bless and Thank You to all those who bring me hope.

On a lighter note, my roommate and I watched American Idol tonight. It was the 1st set of auditions and it was pretty entertaining. The one I am hopeful for is the reservist, who also has a husband currently in Baghdad. An American hero for an American Idol. I hope she does well. After my previous rant about the media, I feel the need to clarify that this was maybe the 4th episode EVER that I have seen of Idol. I usually geek out on DISC, TLC, HIST and Discovery Health if I do get the chance to watch TV.