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In ♥ & Soul , Beauty Tuesday , Community , Health , Higher Ed , Home Sweet Home , Pro-DiSPO , Public Interest , Relationships , Throwback Thursday , Travel , Weekly Wonders , What's Hot , Workin' Woman , Yours Truly on 01/19/2016 at 13:00
♪YES (not Oops) ~ I did it again♫
We’ll call this the Dr. Dispo makeover …
before I return to my So-Tex teaching assignment !
Hair -spiration:
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In ♥ & Soul , Community , Health , Higher Ed , Home Sweet Home , Pro-DiSPO , Public Interest , Relationships , Travel , Weekly Wonders , What's Hot , Workin' Woman , Yours Truly on 01/14/2016 at 15:33
Happy National 🏡Home🏠 Organization Day!
What a way to place that need for order as we ring in the New Year !
Let’s welcome ☼everyday☼ with
I live by these planning approaches:
Fail to plan, plan to fail. ~ Brian , 👊🏽Toned U p💪 🏽 on Bravo!❗️ Plan to work, work to plan. ~ Alex , Carpenter from 🏡Treehouse Masters 🌳 on 🦁APL🌎
Here’s my organizational strategy:
Map out day (night before ) 🕯💡🛣🌃🌉
Visualize : Pray🙏🏽 ☝🏽️✌🏽️ 👓🌈Exercise💓💞 👣👟🏋 Breakfast ☕️🍊🍳🍞🧀 Tackle the tough things 1st 🏉🏈🏅🎖🏆
~ adapted from Forbes ‘ most successful people
A couple of my Catholic brothers have made these remarks about planning (paraphrased):
How do you make GOD laugh? Tell Him your plans! ~ Danny Barrera , JD 👔What’s the point of planning? It takes up more time! ~ Capt. Kirk
While I’m an advocate for daily game planning to help us establish order in our lives, our plans don’t work unless we
know that we can’t implement them singlehandedly, and
that our ultimate goal is to follow GOD’s perfect plan 👏🏽🙌🏽
3:33 ~ make a wish … or, actually: a †prayer !!! ✌
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In ♥ & Soul , Community , Health , Home Sweet Home , Motivational Monday , Public Interest , Relationships , Thirsty Thursday , Travel , Weekly Wonders , What's Hot , Yours Truly on 01/11/2016 at 19:00
Pope Francis take * on how home influences our faith [my commentary in brackets]:
“Faith opens a ‘window’ to the presence and working of the Spirit. It shows us that, like happiness, holiness is always tied to little gestures.
‘Whoever gives you a cup of water in my name will not go unrewarded,’ Jesus says (Mark 9:41).
“These little gestures are those we learn at home, in the family; they get lost amid all the other things we do, yet they do make each day different. They are the quiet things done by mothers and grandmothers, by fathers and grandfathers , by children, by brothers and sisters . They are little signs of tenderness, affection, and compassion.
“Like the warm supper we look forward to at night [my mom ‘s homecooking ], the early meal awaiting someone who gets up early to go to work [my dad ‘s coffee ].
“Homely gestures.
“Love is shown by little things, by attention to small daily signs that make us feel at home. Faith grows when it is lived and shaped by love. That is why our families, our homes, are true domestic churches. They are the right place for faith to become life and life to grow in faith.”
*Pope Francis in the U.S.: Words of Mercy and Hope (2015), Daughters of St. Paul, pp. 22-23 ~ as said at the Closing Mass of the Eighth World Meeting of Families , Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA, Sunday, September 27, 2015.
^– I actually used this passage as my pre-brunch prayer of grace with my parents today! –^
Bearing in mind these homely gestures, let’s also consider our cultures and upbringings…
Have you ever wondered why your parents act the way they do then realize that you’re turning out more like them as you grow up?
Wong Fu
Have you eaten yet? = Priceless ♥love♥
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Speaking of family …
Happy 17th Birthday to Rey-Rey , my beloved GODdaughter Reyanna mañana!
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In Health , Higher Ed , Pro-DiSPO , Public Interest , Soul Saturday , Thirsty Thursday , Weekly Wonders , What's Hot , Workin' Woman on 01/08/2016 at 15:45
My 2016 challenge for all of us:
Be merciful to everybody!
No matter how educated , experienced, affluent or advantaged we are, none of us are better than everyone else. We all are called to
Happy One Month Anniversary to my Name Change:
Dr. Dispo !
I defended my dissertation on an extra special day for the Church
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In ♥ & Soul , Beauty Tuesday , Community , Health , Home Sweet Home , Public Interest , Relationships , Travel , Weekly Wonders , What's Hot , Yours Truly on 01/05/2016 at 11:00
Happy Three Kings tomorrow! / ¡Feliz Tres Reyes mañana!
Since CHRISTmas still is in session, I still
How do you spread the cheer this New Year ?
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In ♥ & Soul , Community , Health , Higher Ed , Home Sweet Home , Motivational Monday , Pro-DiSPO , Public Interest , Relationships , Thirsty Thursday , Travel , Weekly Wonders , What's Hot , Workin' Woman , Yours Truly on 01/04/2016 at 18:30
Happy Feast Day of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
This educator was my favorite saint growing up. In my own childhood Catechism class , I first heard this ♪song♫ (Matthew 6:33 ) when we watched a video about her life…
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With my own dreams of helping establish a Ca†holic school in my hometown, I look to St. Elizabeth for inspiration and seek her intercession.
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In ♥ & Soul , Community , Foodie Friday , Foto Friday , Health , Home Sweet Home , Public Interest , Relationships , Travel , Weekly Wonders , What's Hot , Yours Truly on 01/01/2016 at 12:35
🎁G ift-G iving Soup🍲
From #TitaElaine’s Kitchen (YES~my newborn niece #GRACEdUsWithHerPresence #CHRISTmasDay!): #FeastOfTheHolyFamily #GiftGivingSoup #SoupItUp #SnowDay #TomatoBisque #BowTiePasta #RibbonNoodles #SpinachCheeseTortellini #LeanRedAndGreen #farfalle #cellentani #tortellini #tomato #basil #garlic #oregano #StuffedPasta #spinach #parmesan #ricotta #romano #CHRISTmasMiracle #CHRISTmasBlessing #FestiveFoodie #GoMAVS #GoCOWBOYS #NFLSunday 🌠🎆🎇🎅🏽🎄🎁💝👶🏻👧🏻❄️☃⛄️🏀🏈🏉🏆🍽🍴🍝🍅
🏈G ame G rub🏉
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🍮G ooey G oodness🐿
Festive Foodies CHRISTmases Past
🎓G rad G reetings & Good News
👶🏻Grace newborn niece👧🏻
☝🏽️GOD has blessed us with this best 🎇CHRISTmas🎄 🎅🏽gift💝 who shares her 🎊birthday🎉 with JESUS✌🏽
Happy New 🎆2016🎇 ~ the Jubilee Year of Mercy!
The Elaine Dispo Journal 