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I love to read, I read books, magazines, newspapers and anything else I can find to read. I love to read different types or styles from Stephen King to Bishop Fulton Sheen. Give me a Catholic book, magazine or …
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged action, actions, affiliation, August, bible, bishop, catholic, Catholicism, Catholics, cell, Center, church, code, conversations, danger, decisions, detroit, dinner, dinners, Down, example, examples, fact, faith, faiths, forum, friend, friends, Frustration, host, International, Jesus, judgment, landline, liberal, Life, Luther, mantra, Martian, Methodology, National, Note, offices, Once, opinions, people, politics, prayer, Public, reformation, religion, religions, Research, response, responses, results, revelation, Sample, shadows, spirit, SRBI, stance, stand, statement, Subpopulation, Survey, times, traits, truth, vale, version, word, words, Wrong, youth on June 23, 2010| 1 Comment »
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Below is a poll question from the Pew Research Center. I find the question interesting. Based on my conversations with most of my friends I am not sure I would get the same response, most of my friends with in the faith are liberals and they have a basic feeling that the …
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged acceptance, administration, america, American, Americans, Americas, arguments, articles, attention, beacon, children, christian, collision, concept, conscience, courage, creation, cultures, deception, destiny, destruction, detriment, differences, discovery, donor, fabric, fact, fathers, femi, Flux, freedom, gender, generation, Genetics, Guilt, health, hell, hilltops, himself, history, human, ideas, independence, interpretations, Just, justice, leader, Lies, Life, lifestyle, limb, male, mantra, maybe, moment, Nation, Nations, Nazi, Nazis, norm, November, obama, orientation, paradigm, pursuit, quilt, refuges, repercussions, reports, rights, road, scope, Second, Sexual, size, species, Statue, status, terrorist, times, tradition, truth, truths, unit, universe, Utopia, woman, word, world on June 21, 2010|
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Yesterday was Fathers Day, so to all the dad’s Happy Fathers Day! The word dad is a lot larger than the 3 letters that make it up, the word dad encompasses a whole concept and radical idea, or at least in today’s world it seems radical. As of late the media has been hot and heavy on the idea of downplaying the rolls of dad’s in the family life. their have been several articles published about how the man is not a necessary part of family life, and some that have even gone so far as to state that the dad is a detriment to the family. Now I will admit that most have been written by anti-male femi-Nazi’s but still the media has taken and run with it. They have published the reports as if they came from …
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I have had to write a few blogs on saying goodbye, I have had to say goodbye to both of my parents, to my grandparents and to a nephew along with my dog. Each of the goodbye’s offered me a lesson in life, and each, in there own way took a part of my …
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Awake, breeze, christ, communion, creation, creations, difference, dreams, Earth, fragrance, glimpse, great, hearts, heaven, heavens, innocence, leaf, Life, Many, moment, nature, peace, poetry, Psalms, senses, sleep, spirit, splendor, times, truth, words, world, youth on May 10, 2010|
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Each and everyday we all wake with the opportunity to make a difference in our lives. We awake with an newness that only exist in that moment. The moment before reality sets in. What we chose to do with that moment can make or break our day.…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged actions, area, argument, attention, bases, blog, Both, brothers, card, certificate, cheek, children, confession, confessions, connection, conversation, conversations, cooperation, creators, death, deeper, door, Earth, fact, friend, gift, gifts, graduation, heart, india, lesson, Life, longer, memory, moment, moments, moms, nature, neighbor, Nephew, Once, pain, parent, parents, parish, person, plants, politics, prayer, prayers, relationship, relationships, roots, salt, Self, siblings, sister, sisters, Some, soul, times, truth, week, words on May 8, 2010|
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With Mothers Day upon us, it is time to reflect on our mother, both earthly and those that are no longer with us. The other day I posted a blog about having parents, or better yet, the blog was tong in cheek about needing to prove I had parents on my …
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged About, actions, activities, Allen, Amazon, American, areas, articles, aspect, basis, BibleGateway, blog, catholic, Catholics, christ, christian, church, compartments, conversation, Corporal, courage, death, Earth, ends, fact, faith, father, fellowship, followers, Form, friend, friends, friendship, friendships, Galaxy, gifts, help, himself, history, human, image, Jesus, John, Judas, Life, LITTLE, Magdalene, mary, mercy, ministry, moments, money, Myth, Nations, needs, obligation, parish, Paul, places, prayer, predator, principle, Rather, Redeemer, reports, resurrection, rights, Roland, Roman, Scandal, scandals, shop, Should, situation, Sometimes, Spiritual, STATIC, Sure, talents, talks, three, times, tool, travels, truth, Wikipedia, words, Works, world, Write, Zemanta on April 29, 2010|
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As part of my job, my 9 to 5 job, the one that pays my bills, I get to travel the world. I love that aspect of my job, I love going to new places. Not only do I get to go to new places, I get to make new friends. I now have friends in five countries around the world and have traveled to seven different countries. So on this next trip I get to visit my friends I have not seen in over a year. It will be nice.…
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This past weekend I spent my time reading and listing to Catholic radio. Of course I cleaned the house, did my wash and other such tasks, but I spent a lot of time sitting and reading. It was nice, I have not had a lot of time to do that, or should I say I have not made time to do that.…
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About a year or two ago a friend gave me a book to read. It sounded very interesting, it was a thriller and love story and mystery and supernatural all rolled into one. I don’t know the authors name, and the name of the book slips me at the moment, but that’s really not that important for what I have to tell you.…
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I am finding more and more the richness of the Holy Bible, the more I learn the more little nuggets of truth I discover. As I was listening to Catholic Talks on CD’s (yes I know I have been on about these CD’s for days’… but I just keep finding something new in them) I have be re-wakened the the depth of knowledge each little passage contains. It amazes me that one word or phrase can contain a life changing truth.
As the owner and creator* of STATIC Solutions, a Catholic company the produces educational materials for middle school youth, I am always on the look out for new ideas, new bits and pieces of truth that can be used to excite and deepen the faith life of the youth and the adults who are charged with imparting the truth. I find that it’s not hard to find that one passage or phrase the hard part is deciding what one.
I have just started to develop some new material, I am in the beginning stage were I need to play the concept out, I need to define what it is I am looking for (or as the case maybe, what God is trying to get me to do). This process involves the selection of the main theme that is to run through the book, what basic idea or truth is the book to depart. It is a long process, one that sometimes takes months or even years, yes I have a few ideas that have been sitting in my head for years.
It’s interesting, because as I listened to the CDs I discovered that I could write whole books, teach a whole class on just on passage or phrase. The depth of that phrase or passage could fill volumes. I could take the simple phrase “I Thirst” or “You are Peter” and build a course around them. This is my new dilemma…. What phrase or word or passage do I use, how do I use it and what do I do with it.
The concept of STATIC Solutions program is to take the youth deeper in to the faith, to really look at one area, to show them the richness of that phrase or person or book. Each of our classroom books look at a subsection of the over all concepts. For example the one of the books is entirely on the Exodus of the Israelites for Egypt. We spend five sessions doing nothing but recounting the Exodus and it’s meaning to us today and it’s part in Salvation History. We dive in to the mindset of the Israelites and Mosses, we place ourselves into the moment and feel the desert heat on our backs and the aches and pains of the long walk. Our hearts break over the sinfulness of Gods people, yet we can see ourselves in the humanity of them all. It is five sessions that truly take us back in time. Each of our course books deals with a subset such as that, rather than covering the whole Old Testament in five weeks or even fifteen, we choose to create an experience that will envelop the youth, take hold of their imaginations and souls and with God grace, create a conversation moment for them.
Our philosophy is why “dump” thousands of years of Salvation History on them, it is better to give them nuggets of truth that will excite them and enlighten them, than it is to drowned them is Christian history. If it has taken the Catholic Church over two thousand years to come to Her understanding of the faith, why should we expect our youth to do it in eight years? Is it not better to give them the thirst for knowledge and truth than to drowned them in it?
So as you can see my dilemma is how to take the beauty of the book of Job and turn it into a five session gem, or to take the phrase “I Thirst” and keep it to only five sessions. The glory of God and the Catholic Church can never be contained in the mind of man, yet alone in books. Yet this is what I attempt to do, this is the calling I have answered and the challenge I am tasked with.
The CDs are examples of this, year of the speakers could have went on for hours and hours, if not days. Yet they were confined to thirty minute or one hour at most. To take the vastness of Gods glory and condense it into a book or talk… The concept is truly, well its just mind blowing.
This is what I love about my faith, the fact that each day I can learn and grow, that a passage I have heard one hundred times before can suddenly take on a whole new meaning. That the truth of the faith keeps growing or should I say that my understanding of the truth keeps growing. That the smallest of details sometimes are the greatest of truths.
The challenges given to me to create the programs I create are a life lesson in humility and faith, and yes the CDs I listened to reminded me of this very fact. They have created in me a new desire to research and learn and to create. As the STATIC Solutions tag line reads “Educate ~ Innovate ~ Create… that is me calling and one I am willing to answer.
God Bless
Paul
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