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A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....10-28-02
dansangel and Billie

Posted on 10/28/2002 1:20:35 AM PST by dansangel

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To: Polycarp
Thanks, Polycarp! That is a big compliment to me. And thanks to all you do for the Catholic Caucus. You keep us on task! Ha!
241 posted on 10/29/2002 8:52:47 AM PST by Salvation
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To: ofMagog
What great quotes! One of my favorite things to do is collecting them. It is so much fun to slip them into a conversation................leaving one's fellow conversant speechless.
242 posted on 10/29/2002 8:55:19 AM PST by Salvation
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To: patent
Reminds us how great is the sacrifice and how great is the gift. There is nothing we can do to earn it, only accept.

Amen!

243 posted on 10/29/2002 8:56:34 AM PST by Salvation
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To: dansangel
Mega Bump from a member of the FR Catholic Caucus!
244 posted on 10/29/2002 10:54:58 AM PST by Antoninus
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To: Antoninus
Good to see you, Antoninus.

God bless all those who post on FR!
245 posted on 10/29/2002 2:29:39 PM PST by Salvation
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To: knighthawk

Hi , a freeper friend gave me your name, Salvation, and any other Catholic who would be interested in emailing me on the freeper mail line about the Churches theology concerning immigration, and why they seem to ally themselves with neocommunist groups like National Lawyers Guild, Answer, etc. I have gone through a church jolt in the past two weeks and would like to communicate with someone who can iron some things out for me, I am a cradle , Catholic educated, woman of 59, very traditional Catholic, and can't understand how the church can let illegal immigration go on, when it also serves the drug lord intentions etc. thanks Keisha from MN


246 posted on 04/12/2006 12:38:42 AM PDT by Keisha
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Salvation Freeper since December 19, 2000










Salvation was born and raised in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. She attended elementary, high school and two years of college there. After earning her Associate's Degree in Education, she taught second and third grades in Dix, NE. A few years later, she wound up moving to California, near Anaheim, and it was there that she met her husband-to-be on a blind date. They were married a year and a half later and moved to the Bay area.
During the next few years, Salvation's husband Dave worked first as an auditor for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and then as Controller for what was then called Central California Federal Savings and Loan in the main office in Auburn, CA. Also during this time, Salvation had given birth to three girls and a boy. While Controller for Central California Federal, Dave had the pleasure of meeting Ronald Reagan during a trail ride on horseback sponsored by his employer.


Ronald Reagan, lovingly rendered by our own Billie (c)2001.

Desiring a change, Salvation and her husband flew to Salem, OR to look at a child care center that was for sale. They decided to purchase the child care center, licensed for 50 children with a staff of five adults and two teacher aides, usually high schoolers. Two years after moving there, their youngest son was born. Salvation's husband Dave worked for the State of Oregon as a fiscal analyst for the Child and Protective Services. He also handled all the bookkeeping for their daycare center.







What appeared on the surface as a life of bliss as parents and business-owners, in reality caused stress leading to the request for a divorce by Dave. Salvation signed them both up for a Marriage Encounter weekend without Dave's knowledge. He consented to go, however, when the weekend was finally scheduled. It turned their marriage around. Subsequently, they went for training to be a presenting team couple for Marriage Encounter weekends - as if they didn't already have enough on their plates! They did that for about five years, and also presented several Family Weekend Experiences for families in the Salem area.
Their children were active in Little League; Dave served as League president and umpired games for the region. In high school, their daughters were involved in Spanish Club, dance team and soccer. The boys went out for football and wrestling. During this time Dave was also the campaign treasurer for several Republican candidates in local elections. Salvation says she was "still too busy to get into the politics of it all, however."





Then, in 1985, as Salvation puts it, "the big bomb hit. It may as well have been a bomb, because I was devastated. We found out that my husband had lung cancer in April and he died the last week of August of that year. I am thankful that the Lord gave me those four months, don't get me wrong."
It was a year later that Salvation attended her first Beginning Experience weekend. She returned a year after that for another weekend and relates that her life has never been the same. It was as though God was preparing her for her next painful experiences. Over the next 6 years she experienced four more deaths in her immediate family. Drawing on her strength and her deep faith in God, she became an active member in her Catholic parish (Disciples in Mission) and during Lent she is on the Pastoral Council.
This all leads up to Salvation joining Free Republic. She credits her late husband with her Republican "conversion." She was brought up in a Democratic family who believed in government subsidies for farmers. Dave helped her to see that the subsidies, by and large, did not really help the farmers at all, while taxing all of the other citizens of the nation.





Salvation's actual Free Republic membership began by lurking during the hearings after the presidential election and the subsequent Democratic election fraud fiasco in Florida. She ended up tiring of being a lurker and signed up. She is pro-life and anti-government-takeover of privately-owned land. As a former business-owner (she no longer owns the daycare center, having sold it in 1991), Salvation feels that when a person's income depends on the land they own (such as in the farmlands surround the Klamath Basin in Southern Oregon), "it is vital that we all stand up and speak out."




Salvation is proud to be a Roman Catholic and contributes to threads in the religion forum on a regular basis. She also posts the "Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings" on FR each day and the "Sunday Mass Readings" on Sunday. She also tries to post the "Radio Address by the President to the Nation" each Saturday morning but is not always so successful in getting it posted. She says that is due to her "laziness," but with all of her accomplishments and raising 5 children to boot, it is very difficult to believe the word "lazy" even exists in her vocabulary.
Salvation's five children are all grown and live in Chicago, Phoenix, Cornelius, OR, Salem, OR and her youngest son is a student at Portland State. Salvation also has "three and almost four" grandchildren. Two grandsons are in Phoenix and a granddaughter is in Cornelius. Salvation feels it is important that "I also try to enjoy the each day as the Lord gives it to me. Smell the flowers, gaze at the sunset."





Finally, Salvation cites the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi as her favorite:

~Prayer of St. Francis~

Lord, make me and instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are both to eternal life.

St. Francis of Assisi.






Please join me in giving another deserving FReeper a warm welcome to FR's Finest...
Today that Finest is
Salvation!







247 posted on 01/01/2007 7:02:50 PM PST by Coleus (Happy New Year!)
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To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...


248 posted on 01/08/2007 6:17:08 PM PST by Coleus (Woe unto him that call evil good and good evil"-- Isaiah 5:20-21)
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To: Coleus; Salvation

That would be a big YAY, and Alleluia for Salvation!


249 posted on 01/08/2007 6:40:19 PM PST by Mad Dawg (horate hoti ex ergon dikaioutai anthropos kai ouk ek pisteos monon; Jas 2:24)
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To: Coleus
We have been truly blessed by the gift of Salvation's presence at Free Republic.


250 posted on 01/08/2007 6:43:57 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Coleus

I've admired Salvation's contributions to FR for quite some time. It's wonderful to get to learn more about her from such a beautiful tribute.


251 posted on 01/08/2007 7:11:43 PM PST by syriacus (IF Truman cut + ran after 3,000 deaths, THEN the Korean War would have ended in 5 weeks.)
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To: Coleus; Salvation

Thank God for Salvation. :)


252 posted on 01/08/2007 7:20:58 PM PST by Nihil Obstat
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To: Coleus; dansangel

I see you went to my profile page and found the link that dansangel sent me before she went off line.

http://www.d21c.com/dansangel/html/Salvation.htm

The old post no longer shows up -- so it was so sweet of her to send this to me.


253 posted on 01/08/2007 11:37:50 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Mad Dawg

Thanks for your kind words. You have really been standing in there for the Lord too. Give yourself credit.


254 posted on 01/08/2007 11:38:34 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: sageb1

I think posting has been so much to me -- I have learned so much about Scripture and about the Catholic Church.


255 posted on 01/08/2007 11:39:22 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: syriacus

You are so sweet. The link is also on my profile page. (Been there all along.) LOL! Good to see you. How are you doing anyway?


256 posted on 01/08/2007 11:40:23 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Nihil Obstat

And I thank God, for FReepers like you who bump the Daily Readings thread and also know your doctrine and faith very well. You are a special FReeper in my book.


257 posted on 01/08/2007 11:41:39 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Coleus; Salvation

How very nice to get to know you better, Salvation, and the tribute/introduction was very well presented, Coleus!


258 posted on 01/09/2007 1:45:04 AM PST by .30Carbine
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To: Coleus; Salvation
Not only is it a lovely tribute, it is well deserved!

Salvation, I can't imagine Free Republic without you.

259 posted on 01/09/2007 6:04:48 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: sageb1; Salvation; Coleus

God is very good to all of us who dig the FR. May we all aim to love as much as Christ. Congrats Salvation! Gorgeous life!


260 posted on 01/09/2007 6:21:48 AM PST by klossg (GK - God is good!)
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