VENERABLE Archbishop Fulton Sheen!

God always sends us some joy even after the disaster of the Supreme Court decision yesterday. God always sends us hope. Archbishop Fulton Sheen was made 'venerable' today!

Show me your hands. have you a scar from giving? A scar of sacrificing yourself for another? Show me your feet. Have you gone about doing good? Were you wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?” – Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Big problem in the world re. the last quote!

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind."
-- Edward Gibbon

"What happens when the future has come and gone?"
-- Robert Half

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
-- Samuel Johnson

"The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth."
-- Charles Luckman

Kittens, Kittens, Everywhere . . .

Anyone who has seen the movie, Jurassic Park, will understand this analogy. Last night a friend expressed interest in seeing one of our kittens today. Rather than race around the yard when she gets here, we lured the kitten into the house, last night, and put him in with the other three. This morning, I released them from their various abodes and immediately they started checking out every inch of the barrier walls we had put up to keep them out of harm's way and our way during the day. They were absolutely methodical about this and I started seeing them as baby dinosaur raptors trying to get out and take over! No sooner did we block off one weak area, they were squeezing out another. Four kittens against two grownups is unfair odds . . . in favor of the kittens! At one point, the guest kitten escaped down the hall and raced under a bed in my son's room. He soon got scared of the unknown and headed out into the living room. He could have stayed hidden a lot longer if he hadn't started complaining out loud and was recaptured. Even now, I can hear them scratching and checking the walls of their makeshift enclosures, planning their next escape! If you don't hear from me in the next few days, the kittens won!