Story ~ Baby Porcupines & The Coldest Winter Ever

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They're cute when young 

but when their older, 

their needle-like quills 

are painful to touch. 

~ PGA, on Baby Porcupines, 2011Jan03,1308.

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Story Of Porcupines & The Coldest Winter Ever

Note: I heard this story during a sermon on the Feast of the Holy Family and found the story at this Link: 

http://www.spiritual-short-stories.com/spiritual-short-story-738-Porcupines+And+The+Coldest+Winter+Ever.html

It was the coldest winter ever, and many animals died because of the cold. The porcupines, realizing the situation, decided to group together. This way they covered and protected themselves; but the quills of each one wounded their closest companions even though they shared their heat with each other. 

After awhile, they decided to distance themselves one from the other to stop being wounded.

As they did this, they began to die... alone and frozen. So they had to make a choice: either accept the quills of their companions or disappear from the Earth. Wisely, they decided to go back to being together. This way they learned to live with the little wounds that were caused by the close relationship with their companion, but the most important part of it, was the heat that came from the others that enabled them to survive the coldest winter ever.

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Labels: Quote, Story, Teens, Family, 

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"I've learned that...
you shouldn't compare yourself 
to the best others can do 
but to the best you can do." 
~ age unknown...
Taken from Daily Nourishments 3rd Jan 2011

Dorothy Day ~ The Catholic Worker

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Dorothy Day ~ The Catholic Worker

She's on her way to sainthood... but her life didn't start out that way...

• Initially Dorothy Day lived a bohemian life ~ Bohemianism is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people, with few permanent ties, involving musical, artistic or literary pursuits...

• She had with two common-law marriages ~ Common-law marriages are not solemnized...

• She had an abortion.

• In 1910 she supported sexual freedom BUT opposed sexual revolution of the 1960s after she became a Catholic... saying she had seen the ill-effects of a similar sexual revolution in the 1920s. 

• She was buried in Cemetery of the Resurrection on Staten Island, just a few blocks from the location of the beachside cottage where she first became interested in Catholicism. 

• She was proposed for sainthood by the Claretian Missionaries in 1983. 

• Pope John Paul II granted the Archdiocese of New York permission to open Day's "cause" for sainthood in March 2000, thereby officially making her a "Servant of God" in the eyes of the Catholic Church.

Click here to read more about her life...

Dorothy Day ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Day

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Here are some Quotes by Dorothy Day
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dorothy_day.html

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.


Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.


I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor. 


Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them. 


I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. 


I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers. 


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