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HIATUS

9/26/2017

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Dear Readers of my Blog,
At age 80 now, I have decided to make a hiatus of making blog entries.
Why?  You will be surprised to hear that I am actually tired of my own ideas!!!!  I want to try to spend more time in contemplative prayer and less on finding “perfect” words to express my thoughts.
Maybe, you will feel sad and think you are losing me.  If so, here are some remedies:
-        Write me e-mails at [email protected].  I have plenty of time to answer individual e-mails – but none of those things you forward to many addresses.
      
-        Listen to WCATradio programs I am on.  One is RondaView every Sunday at 5 PM EST.  Go to WCATradio.com and click on programs to find them. I am also on an interesting panel called Open Door on Fridays at 11 AM EST.
 
-        Read newer titles of books I’ve written that can be found on this web – goodbooksmedia.  9 Toes will become a book you can buy from goodbooks media in the next few months – cheap on kindle or nook.  Or, I have lots of titles you may not have read yet on enroutebooksandmedia.com.
 
God bless you, dear readers. Of course, I may wake up one day soon and think “I need to revive my blog again.”  In case this happens, check goodbooksmedia blogs RondaView to see.
 
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While Recovering from the Storm

9/11/2017

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September 8, 2017
I am reading a delightful book.  It is called Winter Wheat: God Is Simple by Armond Nirdlinger.  This writer was an atheist scientist.  He became a Catholic at 66 partly based on all  kind of scientific facts that seemed to him to prove the absolute necessity of an intelligent Creator God…but also little published research into matters such as the finding of chariots deeply buried in the Reed (Red) Sea.  ​
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Here are some quotations from Winter Wheat to interest you in getting hold of this book – perhaps to give to atheists or agnostics or lapsed Catholics.
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About hidden doubts even of believers, he writes:
​“I read “where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of them” …subliminally, the skeptical voice would prevent the verse from bringing inspiration, joy and peace to my heart. I would be recalling examples (real or not where the promise had not come through…In Nazi Germany, if Adolf was delivering one of his speeches and you didn’t give an enthusiastic ‘Heil’ at the appropriate time, the Gestapo would haul you off to the firing squad. …However, I am the Fuhrer of my mind and soul.  If I detect grumbling, sarcasm and skepticism going on, as soon as I become aware of it I am going to drag the culprit front and center and if there is no excuse for my behavior, annihilation!...This purification process will help to enliven the Gospel for us.”

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And this:
​"I am like a well-loved pet dog - I know my master (Jesus) loves me and so I am content, but it's like I'm lying outside the closed door to the kitchen and I can smell the most delicious smells coming out. I would love to have some of what is being cooked, but it's not meant for dogs. Occasionally I get to lick the plates."

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My next blog will continue Jim Ridley’s illustrations of my 9 Toes in Eternity collection.
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    Ronda Chervin received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Fordham University and an MA in Religious Studies from Notre Dame Apostolic Institute. She is a dedicated widow, mother, and grandmother.
    Ronda converted to the Catholic Faith from a Jewish, though atheistic, background and has been a Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Loyola Marymount University, the Seminary of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and Franciscan University of Steubenville. She is an international speaker and author of some fifty books about Catholic thought, practice and spirituality. One of her latest is LAST CALL, published by Goodbooks Media.
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