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1000; Feast of The Immaculate Conception

Yay! I got over 1000 total page views!! Ok, that's it! Oh, and have a blessed Feast of The Immaculate Conception!! 

Random Update

Yo people! You have probably noticed I haven't been writing anything recently. I'll update you on what has happened recently...

Thanksgiving Day: We had an old widow over for dinner, my mother met her at the grocery store after the old lady was asking people if they were going to be stupid in the election, my mother wasn't of course. Anyway, we had a great time, and we made her day as well. :)

Friday: Not much.

Saturday: Stuff was done, that's all I know!

Sunday. Waffles in the morning. Mass at 11. Nice Ice Cream with a very good old movie..about Nazis and such.. Nice day.

Monday: Had friends over, had a good time.

Tuesday: Got a mold exposure. Had a migraine, headache, then I threw up. I'm also tired. :|

Overall I gave you a bunch of useless information, who knows.

God Works in Pretty Crazy Ways

They always say "God works in mysterious ways", but that just puts it way to lightly. One thing to keep in mind: if you give your life to God, He will be a pain on you! There will be times when you ask for something, i.e. patience, and He'll give you it in the most crazy of ways. Then you say, "What has gotten into you, God??" Well, in the end it is all worth it. I'd say this is what we get with the reelection of Obunny (Sorry, insult to bunnies). I woke up pretty broken up trying to think of how we will survive, but as time went on I realized a few things.

1. God didn't make Obama win.
2. People are stupid.
3. People are dumb.
4. "Obama actually won with the message of free contraception?", see #2 and #3.
5. It was close, meaning Only 50% are #2 and #3.
6. People will be less and less #2 and #3, due to stinky economic, social, and foreign conditions.
7. People are not at true peace with God.
8. People will be more #7 after seeing the consequences of their choices, and morals, see #4.
9. I will be able to against the flow, woo hoo!!

As you can see from those, not only that I mentioned #2 and #3 a lot, but that God works in pretty crazy ways. But it is His way, and in the end you'll see the amazing plan he has. He has an amazing plan for. An amazing future in the beautiful ridges in South Dakota. An amazing chance to change the lives of the suffering souls in that area (I'll go into detail in another post, maybe). An amazing future wife. An amazing future family. He has an amazing plan for me, and an amazing plan you you too!!

:) There! I feel happier! :)

Goodbye soon? I hope!

No, I am not going to be abducted by CIA agents because I know too much. However, we, the great Norwegian (Kinda) family known as the Derricksons, have found this beautiful property divided into two lots, one is 80 acres, and the other is...I forget how much, but it's much bigger. In all it only costs $545 an acre!!!! That is a fantastic deal. Anyway, it is in southwest South Dakota, and is just stunning! We are intending to build our own house, and build it with rock. If God wants us there, it would be a wonderful experience.

Here are some photos of it, and you can judge if it is worth it:

What is Holiness?

I mean, really, what is it? There are a couple of perceptions of holiness, one is correct. There is a perception of holiness that if you go by all the virtues you'll be fine and go to heaven. Just say the rosary one million times and you'll make it even if you don't mean it, same with the "sinner's prayer". That perception is really self-righteousness. There is a family at our church who we always saw as a good Catholic family. They went to mass dressed nicely, and so on. They seemed to do everything right.

My older sister soon befriended one of the daughters of the family, and they got along well. Later on, as the girl moved into a local college, she got a "boyfriend". Turns out he's an agnostic, and the girl didn't care about that because they "liked each other". She was also caught up in the "missionary dating" concept. My sister told her that even though she wasn't doing anything wrong with him, it won't work out. The girl didn't understand, because she didn't have a real close relationship with Jesus Christ. And since he's agnostic, he will draw her away from Christ, while a good friend should lift you up.

My sister did in fact talk with her about a relationship with Christ, but she mostly ignored. Because she thought that she was being "virtuous". However, the truth is, without a relationship with Him, virtue is meaningless. These people are also usually rather depressing. Most of the children of these families will leave the faith because they think it's boring and empty.

Now of course, the other is a relationship with Jesus Christ, and in that you have real virtue, real devotion to Our Lady, and real Catholicism. This is a beautiful thing, and gives you joy that nothing in this world could ever give. I'd also want to address something similar. That would be heaven. Far too many people think that it'll be a place of rest and um, sitting on a beach drinking some drink you drink on some island, probably while Jimmy Buffet is singing margaritaville. Truth is, if we don't get tired, don't get hungry, and don't even get thirsty, that would only mean one thing. God is gonna make us work! We will be praying up there!


One last thing to say, keep in mind why you want to go to heaven. Do you to go so you don't go to hell? Or so you are just in heaven, and you just want people to call you a saint because you are the greatest, which in truth means you are so arrogant you goin' to hell bro!?! Ok, that was a little bit of a joker there, you know what I mean....you do, right??? You should want go so you can be with your creator, adore Him, glorify Him, and pray for the stupid people down on earth. This closely coincides with why you want to go to Church.

Just some food for thought. Just don't choke on it!

Yep!

This is about the best way I've heard Modesty explained.