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Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape

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It used to be Catholic churches kept the doors unlocked. Anyone wishing to escape their current reality could slip into another space and time simply by retreating into a Catholic church.

Day or night.

Growing up, whenever I escaped into a quiet Catholic church, I would see all kinds of people also coming in for a recharge. For example, I saw older people shuffling in fingering their prayers over rosary beads, young mothers kneeling in prayer at the altar of the Virgin Mother and others, just sitting in peaceful solitude.

While some came in for prayers, others just to rest, some came in to escape uncomfortable weather temperatures outside.

If it was hot outside, being in the cool dim church offered quick relief from the heat. If it was freezing outside, the church gave you warmth both physically and spiritually.

I do not know exactly when most of the Catholic churches in America began to keep their doors locked after normal hours. You would think, however, with all the current problems we face in the world increasing, of all the places, the church doors would be the very place to stay unlocked!  

church escape

“God, Let me in! I need to escape from life...just for a wee moment!

I guess times change and so must people who prefer solving life’s problems from inside a church. “Mass service is over, Lady. Please step outside as the church doors must be locked now,“ says a church caretaker.

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How do you view an escape into a church, even if for a moment?

Useful or not?

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Thank you, and if you are new to blogging, please visit the Daily Post| Weekly Photo Challenge. I hope you find inspiration to create a post on this week’s theme: Escape.

Of course, here are more very good interpretations on Escape! Enjoy ☺

Getting the Bounce Back

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I love when life hands over a seemingly too simple advice and you think, seriously?

Really?

A few days ago, I asked my hair stylist, an angel from heaven in my opinion, what shampoo product would get out all the mega hairspray, mousse, hair gel and modeling paste from my hair.

Daily, I use so much sprays and goopy hair products that not only my smart self urges me to buy stocks from these hair companies, but my hair itself acts like old residues still heavily coat every strand of my hair even after a good shampoo.

Layers of product gunk=lifeless, heavy and blah hair.

“No matter the cost,” I say, as I bow down to my divine hair stylist begging a solution.

“I need to get the bounce back into my hair! It needs life again!”

“You’ll laugh when I tell you the product,” says the divine hair stylist.

“Laugh? Why, is it from some exotic animal gland or marked with a super exorbitant price tag?”

She lets out a good laugh before her advice pours forth.

“No, you take one tablespoon of baking soda; pour into your favorite shampoo. Shake well before you shampoo your hair. Not only will it remove hair product gunk but your natural hair oils as well. Be sure to condition your after the shampoo to restore hair manageability.”

Is she serious…baking soda?

English: Washing Hair - Oil on canvas - 80 x 6...

Photo credit: Wikipedia

Guess what? As usual, my divine hair stylist was right. I can spray my hair silly with hairspray and still have great bouncy hair after a shampoo!

When you have a hair stylist that forgoes selling you their salon’s expensive hair products and suggests a natural and economic alternative instead, you have to say, wow!

Bless these kindhearted folks and bless you!

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What else is baking soda good for?

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Hi Mom!

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Hi Mom!

I know you do not have an e-mail account nor tote around a cell phone so, instead, let me say thank you in this short note for the example you gave of what a loving, unselfish and generous mother looks like.

Because your faith is strong, I have strength to see through many of life’s big obstacles…
Because you see goodness in everyone, I have your positive outlook in life…
Because you believe in the power of prayer, I know the power of Divine love.

Because you blessed me richly, may you be forever blessed.

Thank you praying the Hail Mary prayer repeatedly while I grew up. Now this beautiful prayer is forever in my memory.

Your loving daughter,

Sunshine

Happy blessed Mother’s Day to all mothers everywhere!

*Ave Maria featuring the beautiful voice of Mirusia Louwerse

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Thank you and inspiration for this post came via a triple package:

Daily Prompt: Hi, Mom! | Jakesprinter’s SUNDAY POST: Mother’s Day| Island Traveler’s Weekly Image of Life: A Mother’s Love.

*Ave Maria in English:

Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed are you among women & blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us sinners now & at the hour of our death, Amen.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern

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From the Daily Post| Weekly Photo Challenge, the subject is on pattern. Sara Rosso writes, “Patterns are everywhere. Patterns are sometimes intentional and sometimes accidental. They can be decorative or merely a result of repetition, and often patterns can be in the eye of the beholder to discover them.”

Looking at certain patterns from a photograph makes me see possibilities.

Imagine this scene:

Raise the curtains…it’s show time, folks!

Raise the curtain...showtime!

What do you imagine when you see a central heat/air-conditioning metal wall-grill pattern?

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