Understanding that led to friendship between my sons.

 A friend invited my son Billy, 7,  to a birthday party at Dave and Busters - an amusement center.

 Besides food and drink, all the kids got a $25 card to use at the games there.

At the end of the celebration, Billy collected a small bucket full of tickets.

He redeemed them for 2 water pistols, instead of getting a bigger prize for himself.

When he got home, he gave one of the guns to Bob, 11, his older brother.

At first they were enjoying a friendly game then things got out of hand.  Bob overpowered Billy in the shoot out, cornered him and emptied the magazine.  It turned ugly.

Billy ended up crying miserably.  He went to his dad and told him how deeply grieved he was that Bob used his very gift to torture him mercilessly.

The wise old father called Bob over and said words that would make the two brothers, the best of friends.  "You must understand Bob", the father started, "that Billy owned nothing in this world all his life.  The tickets that he won at Dave and Busters were the only things that he truly owns.  And rather than getting himself a nice toy, he thought of you and the fun times that you two would spend playing together.  That is why he got two water pistols.  He wanted to enjoy your company.  What hurt his feelings was that you went beyond playing and tortured him with it - specially when he was cornered and unable to shoot back or run.  It was neither fun nor friendly anymore.  And I guess he felt sad that you did that to him despite his gift.

Bob understood how Billy looked up to him and enjoyed his company.  From then on, he was no longer mean to Billy.

TimeLapse March for LIFE DC 2011 (100s of thousands)

TimeLapse took 1.5 hrs. to pass through.

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Good intentions of Liberals pave the road to hell

Here's why. If video fails, click here or go to http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2011/01/good-intentions-of-liberals-pave-road.html


H/T PaulMitchel

US Public schools promotes Islam and downplays other religions.

If video fails click here or go to  http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2011/01/us-public-schools-promotes-islam-and.html    US Public schools promotes Islam, omits Islam motivation in terrorism, the subjugation of women in Islam, the  repression and punishment of apostates.  It also omits or downplays other religions.  Please contact your representative today and protest this subversion of other faiths and the propaganda for Islam at the tax payers' expense.

Rep. Michele Bachmann Delivers Tea Party Response to State of the Union

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Right to Life March 2011 at DC. Catholic News estimates hundreds of thousands participants

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Washington D.C., Jan 24, 2011 / 07:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Hundreds of thousands of people packed the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 24 to show their support for the human rights of the unborn at the annual March for Life.


This year's march marked the 38th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade.

For the first time ever, the morning rally events that preceded the March for Life took place at two locations – the Verizon Center and D.C. Armory – to accommodate larger-than-usual crowds. Growing youth participation, possibly assisted by online social media, has nearly quadrupled the size of the march during the past decade.

Fr. Mark Ivany, a priest from Bethesda, Md., told the crowd at the Verizon center on the morning of the march that they were speaking on behalf of those who would never be able to speak for themselves.

"The greatest difference between other civil rights movements and this one,” Fr. Ivany reflected solemnly, “is that most of the people affected by Roe v. Wade can't march on Washington. They can't give great speeches.”

H/T TO Catholic View

4 out of 10 unborn kids are murdered in NY. What have they become & why?

41% pregnancies aborted in NY. Among African Americans, it is 60%. And while contraception is readily available there, it obviously does not prevent pregnancies and STD.

Furthermore legal abortions sends the wrong message i.e. that it is OK thus coarsening the moral sensibility. If a mother can kill her child, whom can she not kill?

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H/T to CMR