The Ultimate form of Expression

Retirement is the 'ultimate form of expression'.  Yes, indeedy!  I find that I can be and do anything I want to do...minute by minute, hour by hour.  Want crisp sheets on my bed? linen sheets? even those flannel sheets....anything that pleases me.  Do I want dessert for breakfast or a popsicle for dinner...well...whatever!

I want to go inside...I want to go outside...I want to talk for hours on the phone, I don't want to talk on the phone at all.  I want to go to the movies, I want to do some volunteer work, I want to call my mother one more time.  I want to love my mother, I want to honor her, I want to make her laugh.  She's 87 now, good health, good sense of humor.  I want to continue to give her what every mother deserves, RESPECT until the day she passes and WAY BEYOND that.

My husband has doubts as to whether I really converted to Catholism.  Well, I tell you, he had me at "PERGATORY".  When I found out that 1500 years after the death of Christ and the birth of Christianity, the PROTESTORS (better know as the Protestants) turned against the Church formed by Christ and His Apostles, The Universal Church---in the Greek CATHOLIC means UNIVERSAL!!!!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?????? At that time in history, the PROTESTORS including my guy Martin Luther, who was a Roman Catholic Priest....left and turned against the Church. They pulled out, among other books in the Bible, the book that tells us about Purgatory, it's called Maccabees.  Purgatory is the place we go to be purged and become 'as white as snow' so we can enter heaven.  It is said that we suffer there for sins we've never asked to be forgiven of or didn't understand.  BUT THE KICKER IS AND THIS IS WHAT CONVERTED ME TO CATHOLISM:  WE CAN OFFER UP OUR OWN SUFFERING HERE ON EARTH FOR THE SOULS IN PERGATORY SO THAT THEY CAN SUFFER LESS AND GET IN TO HEAVEN SOONER.  I THINK THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!  So to make a long story short I can still do something for my mother after she passes. Yes I believe that some go straight to heaven because they are as pure and white as the driven snow.  I just do not get to know who they are!

Well, getting back to retirement and being able to express myself anyway I want to:  I can preach, too, if I choose to.

May God Bless us all!!