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Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and they are the parents of five lively boys and one precious baby girl. She is the author of How Do You Tuck In A Superhero?, and is a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has …
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Rebecca Teti

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Rebecca Teti is married to Dennis and has four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where she double-majored in …
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Robyn Lee is a 30-something, single lady, living in Connecticut in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law and six kids ... and two doors down are her parents. She received her undergraduate degree from …
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Lynn Wehner

Lynn Wehner
As a wife and mother, writer and speaker, Lynn Wehner challenges others to see the blessings that flow when we struggle to say "Yes" to God’s call. Control freak extraordinaire, she is adept at informing God of her brilliant plans and then wondering why the heck they never turn out that …
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Being Nice?

Ideas to share

While I’m not the biggest fan of the word “nice” - there’s so much more to real Christian charity than just niceness - I came across a website today that I thought was… well… nice.

Do One Nice Thing was started by a woman named Debbie Tenzer. According to her Wikipedia article, the movement is responsible for, among other things, donations of 75 TONS of school supplies to children in Iraq and Afghanistan through the US soldiers stationed there. Pretty neat.

The website has an impressive collection of ideas about how to help those around you, and you can browse the ideas by category.

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I really like this.  I know at Mass we pray, “I confess to almighty God…that I have sinned through my own fault…in what I have done…AND IN WHAT I HAVE FAILED TO DO.” So often…far too often, we forget that there are so many in need that we fail to offer a hand to.  Thank you for this post.  And God bless you and your family…I have three boys and one girl, too.  Our youngest is now 16 and today we have all of them home together.  Enjoy (as much as possible) this busy time…they grow up so fast.

 

Here are two nice things you can do for our Lord and his precious little ones today:

Go to Reeces Rainbow website and pick just one child, and

1) Donate just a few dollars (price of the proverbial Starbucks, or equivalent everyday luxury) to his/her adoption grant fund,
2) Pray for that child’s health and comfort, and that a family will see them and come for them.

If we all did this every Friday, as an act of devotion to the Divine Mercy, there would be far fewer orphans wasting away in countries too poor or immersed in the culture of death to care humanely for their most vulnerable members.

 

Robin—I’d never heard of Reece’s Rainbow—THANKS!  What an awesome idea!  I’ll be sure to pass it on.

 

I can really relate to Therese talking about her four kids and the youngest being 16. I have four also, and our youngest is also 16. She is so right that having them all home together at that point is rare and cherished. They DO grow up too fast! Indeed, enjoy the busy time when your family is all home.

 

I watched the little 2 minute video on her “book” link and thought it was great that she, herself, picked Mondays to do her one nice thing per week, because Mondays are HER hardest day.  I’m willing to bet she does nice things all the time.  I think if you can be nice when you really don’t feel like it, you can be nice more often than not.  Great ideals for all of us.


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