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We're inching closer to our own move halfway across the country, although ours is due to the end of a very long military career for my husband.

Congratulations on just up and doing it.

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Brother, I’m so proud of you. I’m so proud to know you.

I don’t know exactly how this story ends, except that it will be beautiful because you will be in it and you are brave, you have a heart filled with love and a ton of integrity.

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Good luck in getting a good price for your home in Phoenix. In regards to your struggle with the Catholic Faith, is your main issue with the corruption in the hierarchy or are you actually having problems in believing that Jesus is really the Son of God and that he really rose from the dead? Or are you have problems believing the moral precepts, especially the sexual ones? Just trying to understand exactly what you are struggling with.

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Happy this is happening. I hope you can move forward.

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Hi Steve.

God's blessings on you and your family at this great and adventurous time. I haven't been back here in a while... and the photos of the family and your cross country trip are simply amazing. Blessings again.

I was a bit forthright the last time I was here, so I apologise if I offended anyone, but you are correct - change is a messy business. Though it can be fun too... Remember the days as a little kid when mum or the teacher would put a covering on the floor and let you play with all the paints to your heart's content..! I'd say that's close to where you're at right now :) Enjoy every moment 'cos it's only going to happen once and in that very special way. Enjoy... You and the family have worked HARD for it... and your children are far too good looking to be yours!!! Hahahah!!!

I'm putting a link here, to a video that I watched recently [hope I'm not breaking any house rules!] and it affected me profoundly to the point where I no longer feel nervous or anxious in the company of others. I warmly and sincerely recommend this testimony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeDzSfquYcs&list=PLPWmHKl6FtWAUMO5juXUiTpsHDlJ1pO5Y

Well done Steve, keep soldiering on, consider yourself Simon the Cyrenean, helping our Lord carry his cross with the victory of God spreading out across time behind you as you carry it. A mini Christ I guess you could say. Not too far to go now.... Persevere. Dominus vobiscum.

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Hi again Steve... just wanted to add... you got quite the eye for photography. I liked how the boys were brought into the shade for the photo at Rushmore. Niiccee. Compositions and lighting are spot on! I also right-clicked and saved your nighty sky shot! hahahah Great writing, beautiful photography, family and God... someone in there's a gold mine!!! Pax vobis :)

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Real Estate photography? Low overhead, get the 'kids' to help? DSLR, small steadicam, drone, 360 camera, livestreaming [long-distance weddings, funerals, real estate auctions... maybe...] PC edit machine with V12 specs...lol. And internet. lol

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You can still write as well - and work from home... if you want...

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https://www.us.open2view.com/All-Realestate/All/Real+Estate/For+Sale+Or+Rent/New+Hampshire These guys, Open2View, offer one-man franchises and have been around a while. Global. [Not a paid ad!:)] Plenty of info on the web about Real Estate photography/videography if you're in the mood.

Or go solo.

Alternatively, the world's your oyster :) God's blessings on you all.

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A share…from one of my long ago fave authors and thinkers. Seems apropos. It’s subject to being squishy. Your audience may attempt to tar and feather me for daring to offer this potential insight from outside the Catholic, especially, from my POV, myopic traditionalist lane. He’s a liberal Protestant. Even by that standard he’s disappointed me by how unmoored he can be here and there. Anyway…

“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.” -Frederick Buechner

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Steve, Very glad things are going well. Welcome to New England! We’re not all lib-tards up here.

1. Lobster is meant for an outside picnic table. Hose down plastic table cloth when complete.

2. Bake a gigantic Blue Hubbard squash in an oven with maple syrup. Feeds an army. And it’s cheap and delicious.

3. Embrace Winter when it comes. Get outside. Walk the woods in heavy snow. “My little horse must think it queer…. to stop without a farmhouse near…”

4. Baltic Porter by the fire.

5. St Patrick’s Church in Twin Mountain NH

One of my favorite places on earth.

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From a lifelong Rhode Islander, who as a boy fell in love with New Hampshire and who spends as much time at our cabin in NH as I can: Welcome. Welcome to New England, Welcome to New Hampshire. I hope you find peace, happiness and success here for you and all your family.

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Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

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Oh Jesus - Word of God made Flesh, pray for us who have recourse to you!

This blog, its author and affiliates close and far, and all innocents who visit here, are consecrated to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God,

which is in you...

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord.

Dominus vobiscum.

Pax Vobiscum.

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St Joseph, St John, St John the Baptist, St Benedict, St Simon the Zealot, St Jude Thaddeus, St Peter, St Michael, St Gabriel, St Raphael, St Dismus, St Therese, Lisieux, St Bernadette Souberous, Our Lady of Sorrows... pray for us, protect us from the evil one and all misfortune, make us invisible to all those with evil and impure intentions. May they pass us by. Drape your mantle tightly around us Blessed Mother, and Our Lord's mantle as well. Thank you Heavenly Father for giving us you. All glory and honour are yours now and forever.

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Oh Mary, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, St Joseph, St John and Saint Dymphna,

pour out your prayers and pure love on MW, those he associates with and recommends.

May Our Lord Jesus Christ encircle this prayer with the flaming sword of God's pure love, may it slice through the abomination of desolation with ease, reach in and snatch souls away to Heaven to be with you in eternal joy.

Bring all poor souls to you before the final curtain falls upon this world, may we be triumphant in our spiritual and physical battle with the fallen one.

May we turn against him with righteous indignation and gaze upon your glory Oh God, forever and ever. In and through Jesus Christ, we beg your favour Heavenly Father.

Amen.

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My friend... please consider this: charity before instruction. May God fill your heart with insight and enlightenment that you may lift the happiness within souls rather than causing them to retire. As a botanist treats all plants in his keep with equal but differing care according to their inherent strengths and qualities, so too we must learn to do the same with all poor sinners and souls. Please consider and consult God before all things.,. then spread the love... In Christ. Dominus vobiscum.

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Get behind us Satan!!!!! Oh Mary conceived without sin pray for us who have recourse to you and your Son.

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