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» sacred_insights - Beggars and thieves

In response to Beggars and thieves posted by Migisi:
My mom was raised RC and was poor and I mean dirt poor! Now there were 11 kids total and 8 survived... The church wanted grandma to keep procreating and increase the flock but did little to help my grandma who was in a bad marriage where he was a drinker and womanizer and beat the kids. Mom finally landed in the convent it was the school for the "bad girls". She went there with her younger sister when my grandmother and grandfather split up because there was no money to keep them while my grandmother sorted things out.

Then my mother went to work a few years later at the age of 15 and she has spent a life trying to understand what happened to her when she was young. Yep the RC church served her well...

You know she looks after my grandma now and holds no regrets... Now that is someone who learned how to serve others without expectation! And she did not go to church every Sunday and play the part either. She lived life and did the best she knew how and taught me to stand up for myself.

Some folks here may think I am a "dead beat" well all the power to them... Those same folks have a grandchild who is also disabled and poor pity that child if that is their attitude...

This so-called "dead beat" gave what she could to the church she attended and quite frankly my tithes before you count the readings was well into $80-100 a month if you consider the cost of the transportation to get there. I was attending 3 times a week on average if not more! Then you look at the 20% for readings and never mind the hours I spent on the web and off promoting the church and the personal friends I brought to church events!

Yep now I know why my mother kept her spirituality in her own way and never bothered with churches!

Yes Migisi, I have been in a big Catholic cathedral but they are not the only ones who are out for the money. They have just been doing it longer than some of the Alternative Faiths and so have had the chance to amass the wealth! Every religion will have its day I am sure!

Cat

-- posted by sacred_insights