Episode on Community

A Hunter Gatherer’s guide to the 21st Century

Love and Responsibility from JP2 (Three Levels of Friendship)

Come On Song Teresa talked about

Our tips for getting the community of your dreams:

• Invite people over for dinner!
• Stay 10-15 minutes after Mass and talk to people!
• If you are already plugged in, stay after Mass to welcome others and talk to people in need of community.
• Read your church’s bulletin and see if there are upcoming small groups, bible studies or events you can attend!
• Go on a retreat! It’s incredible for your relationship with Christ and others!
• Be vulnerable! Don’t be afraid to open your heart to others.
• Don’t “shop around” for the perfect parish, but step up when there’s something missing! Help be the change you want to see in your parish!
• DO SOMETHING. Contribute to your parish like you would do chores in any family.
• Help with anything you want at your parish. You don’t have to run things!
• Get your kids involved, make them if you need to!
• “How do you want to serve?” not “Do you want to serve?”
• If you don’t know where to start, ask your pastor: “Where do you need help?”
• BUT be sure to check out your charisms to help direct where you should help!
• To begin discerning your charisms, go to www.manypartsministries.com

Best and Worst

• Kim’s Best: Like Elephants, women rally around one another in support and service.
• Kim’s Worst: Girls are observant and pick up on your own negative and undesired behaviors.

• Lauren’s Best: Their feminine nature: Gentleness, kindness, generosity, etc. and their friendship they experience as sisters.
• Lauren’s Worst: Girls are little spies that mirror all the ways you are not the best.

• Teresa’s Worst: daughters reveal the worst of yourself when they display bad behaviors learned from you.
• Teresa’s Best: The Privilege of raising someone’s future wife and mother.

• Christine’s best and worst: Their intellect and curiosity.

• Stacy’s Best: Seeing daughters and loving their beauty and loveliness is a reminder of the delight God takes in watching us.
• Stacy’s Worst: Girls are loud and catty, at least more so than guys.

Advice:

• Teresa: Celebrate bodies and weights of all shapes and sizes! Also to remind boys to treat their sisters with respect so she will be aware of what is unacceptable behaviors in her own future relationships.
• Kim: Teach them how to apologize and forgive, (which fosters humility
• Christine: Parent your girls like you wanted to be treated.
• Lauren: Teach them early to bring it all to God, teach them to pray as early as you can! Stacy mentioned a bible verse. This was the one she was thinking of: "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6)
• Stacy: Make room for your daughters and all their unique preferences, don’t try and control them, but give them freedom to be themselves.

Honorable mention video about the difference between raising boys and girls (Warning it has cuss words, but it still pretty funny)

Modesty Is quote

• “Modesty is the safe place that hides me from the eyes of those who seek to hold the body and not the heart. It is not shame that keeps me covered, it is dignity and honor. It is not insecurity that keeps me hidden, it is that I have already been made secure. A man cannot add to this validation or take away from it. And I do not dress to glorify my own body. I dress to glorify my king.”-Reel on Instagram

Quote on “heavy” knowledge

• “And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?" He turned to look at me, as he always did when answering a question, but to my surprise he said nothing. At last he stood up, lifted his traveling case off the floor and set it on the floor. Will you carry it off the train, Corrie?" he said. I stood up and tugged at it. It was crammed with the watches and spare parts he had purchased that morning. It's too heavy," I said. Yes," he said, "and it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little girl to carry such a load. It's the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you.” ― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

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