Céleste Bulkeley

Mother of twelve, Traditional Catholic, Grace and Nature Homestead

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.

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A gift for the Feast Day.
How Bishops used to deal with heresy. The REAL Saint Nich.

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This will never get old

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@baroncoleman A crossbow? https://t.co/dGh7vrcq2L

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@JustLogic101 @AshleyM89781885 @realzachhansen @NJBeisner That is so beyond ridiculous. Do some research. If your child isn’t enrolled in public school, isn’t enrolled in private school, the only other alternative is homeschooling where parents are the decision makers, not always the teachers.

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@JustLogic101 @realzachhansen @NJBeisner This is ignorant. I’ve homeschooled for 20+ years. Sometimes I’ve had tutors. Sometimes online live classes. Sometimes I teach. There are homeschool co-ops. It doesn’t matter who teaches, it matters who is in control of the child’s education. Parents deciding what, when and how.

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@Sc76811Vs @ShawnRyan762

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@1Nicdar

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@marklevinshow A clear line between good & evil has been drawn. It’s now impossible to not see which side people are on. Those who attack others with harsh and foul words after they have stated something good and beautiful, well, I think those of us with eyes to see and ears to hear, know know.

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@GrahamAllen Interesting. Will what you say make sense in light of of all the truth bombs being dropped?

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@CinemaShogun No. Don’t agree.

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@ehnonamoose @RealCandaceO @CBHeresy Sarcasm and irony are two different things.

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@Acts17David @RealCandaceO @CBHeresy Sarcasm?

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

I became a father yesterday.

My wife did this without an epidural. I watched her suffer in ways I will never fully comprehend, carrying a weight I could not share no matter how I tried. For nine months, I was present but powerless.

Pregnancy forced me to confront something modern life constantly tries to erase: you must wait. Painfully. Excruciatingly. There are no shortcuts to life. No hacks. No optimizations. Just time, and flesh, and blood.

Women bear the disproportionate burden of bringing life into the world. I still don’t fully understand why. Only that it’s true, and profound, and humbling beyond words.

I witnessed pain in its rawest form. À suffering that creates. That’s the poetry of it. Imperfect, brutal, but so precisely orchestrated that it cannot be coincidence. I saw Eden play out; the curse and the promise, together in one body.

There is no way you witness how life begins and conclude this is random. No way you watch a body break itself open to bring forth another person and think we are here by accident, that existence is a cosmic joke. The process is too terrible, too sacred, too exactly what it needs to be.

If everyone began life by witnessing a full pregnancy and labour, we would understand the weight of human existence differently. We participate in it, but we do so as children and forget. This is the passage. The one that strips away pretense and forces you to reckon with the fact that we are here for something.

I always assumed fatherhood would arrive in my thirties, after I’d figured myself out as robustly as I imagined I’d want, after life had settled. Instead, it showed up at 27. No warning. No badge of readiness. Just reality.

Two things haunted me throughout these nine months.

The first: What is a father?

For nine months, you wait for someone you do not know. You count weeks, feel kicks, watch your wife’s body transform and suffer, but the person at the center remains a mystery. I kept asking my wife, half-joking: Who the hell is this guy? He could be anyone.

That realization struck me harder than expected: the sheer nothingness of human fatherhood at the start. You don’t author a child. You don’t summon him by will. You are present, but not primary.

And that’s when it became clear.

There is a greater Father.

One who was with him in the womb when I was not.
One who willed him, shaped him, knit him together before I ever felt useful.
One who knew him before he was visible, before he was named, before he was handed to me.

Pregnancy made that impossible to ignore. It stripped me of the illusion of control.

A child is not a possession. He is a gift. And like all real gifts, he comes from Someone higher.

I’ve been able to slowly understand that parenting is not ownership. It’s stewardship. Helping this little man discover his real Father. The One who loved him before the foundations of the world.

And more than that, parenting is trust.

Trusting that the same God who found me in my confusion and chaos will find him too.
Trusting that I don’t have to be the savior to be a good father.
Trusting that my role is presence, love, discipline, humility. Not replacement.

I understand I am not the source. I am a signpost.

And strangely, that is very freeing. Because it means I don’t have to pretend to be God. I just have to be faithful.

So help me God.

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@EYakoby 2017

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@kurtwuckertjr @WellsJorda89710 Over 50 here. And agree.

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@WellsJorda89710 Sadly, for the party, you are very mistaken. There are many like myself who are realizing we’ve been duped. There is no good side except any innocent people being killed in a war that needs to end.

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@JebraFaushay No. Just no. This person did not just push 8 pounds out of his private parts after enduring hours of pain. Nor does he have a large incision going across his abdomen. He does NOT need to be in a hospital bed!!! Denial of reality and offensive to any woman who has given birth.

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@DerrickEvans4WV As a real woman who has given birth many times, this angers me. Why is he in a hospital bed. He did not go through childbirth, his private parts are not on fire, more is his abdomen cut open 8-10
in. with it feeling like his intestines are going to fall out. This IS NOT REALITY!

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@MichaelFranzese Maybe because he believes in her and what she is doing?

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@SunWeatherMan Artisanal spring water

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I live for this woman