I'll Hold It Up Girls

Episode on CommunityA Hunter Gatherer’s guide to the 21st CenturyLove and Responsibility from JP2 (Three Levels of Friendship)Come On Song Teresa talked aboutOur tips for getting the community of your dreams:Invite people over for dinner!Stay 10-15 minutes after Mass and talk to people!If you are already plugged in, stay after Mass to welcome others and talk to people in need of community.Read your church’s bulletin and see if there are upcoming small groups, bible studies or events you can attend!Go on a retreat! It’s incredible for your relationship with Christ and others!Be vulnerable! Don’t be afraid to open your heart to others.Don’t “shop around” for the perfect parish, but step up when there’s something missing! Help be the change you want to see in your parish!DO SOMETHING. Contribute to your parish like you would do chores in any family.Help with anything you want at your parish. You don’t have to run things!Get your kids involved, make them if you need to!“How do you want to serve?” not “Do you want to serve?”If you don’t know where to start, ask your pastor: “Where do you need help?”BUT be sure to check out your charisms to help direct where you should help!To begin discerning your charisms, go to www.manypartsministries.com

Best and WorstKim’s Best: Like Elephants, women rally around one another in support and service.Kim’s Worst: Girls are observant and pick up on your own negative and undesired behaviors.Lauren’s Best: Their feminine nature: Gentleness, kindness, generosity, etc. and their friendship they experience as sisters. Lauren’s Worst: Girls are little spies that mirror all the ways you are not the best.Teresa’s Worst: daughters reveal the worst of yourself when they display bad behaviors learned from you.Teresa’s Best: The Privilege of raising someone’s future wife and mother. Christine’s best and worst: Their intellect and curiosity.Stacy’s Best: Seeing daughters and loving their beauty and loveliness is a reminder of the delight God takes in watching us. Stacy’s Worst: Girls are loud and catty, at least more so than guys.Advice:Teresa: Celebrate bodies and weights of all shapes and sizes! Also to remind boys to treat their sisters with respect so she will be aware of what is unacceptable behaviors in her own future relationships.Kim: Teach them how to apologize and forgive, (which fosters humilityChristine: Parent your girls like you wanted to be treated. Lauren: Teach them early to bring it all to God, teach them to pray as early as you can! Stacy mentioned a bible verse. This was the one she was thinking of: "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6) Stacy: Make room for your daughters and all their unique preferences, don’t try and control them, but give them freedom to be themselves. Honorable mention video about the difference between raising boys and girls (Warning it has cuss words, but it still pretty funny)