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Spirituality and Twenty Two things to remember
Posted Feb 16, 2003
“Spirituality is not Meditation, nor prayer, nor acknowledgement or belief in the divine presence. It is the flow of something greater than ourselves in everything we do, everything we say, and everything we are. To those who accept Christ and believe in him he gives the power to become children of God” –Micah Tuhy
Twenty-Two things to Remember by Micah Tuhy
1. Knowledge gives me the ability to do the things that have to be done, when they have to be done, as they have to be done, whether I like it or not.
2. Discipline yourself, so others don’t have to
3. Don’t lie, don’t cheat, don’t steal (unless you or your children are starving).
4. Patience is a Virtue.
5. The power to be strong, and the wisdom to be wise, all these things will come to you in time.
6. Wisdom is knowing not to make the same mistake twice.
7. “You can’t be careful on a skateboard man” Stephen King
-When doing things that are daring or dangerous, caution out of fear hinders concentration, a person in the clutch must take action instinctively. Some things we do require less thinking and more faith in ourselves.
8. “Your focus determines your reality” Qui-Gon Jin
-People feel how they choose, believe what they choose, and are as happy as they allow themselves to be.
9. Internal Persistance is a blessing
10. Knowledge is Power, and anything that hinders it is weakness or vice.
11. Resentment is like taking poison, and waiting for someone else to die.
12. Whom do you see? Someone in need? Take action rather than waiting for divine interference.
13. God is great, God is good. What defines us as Christians is the way that we thank him for our food.
14. Christians are empowered by their faith, so “Be Strong and Courageous” for good will overcome, trust in that, if that alone.
15. “Be Strong and Courageous", remembering that discretion is the better part of valor.
16. Believe in yourself in order to believe in anything else.
17. Take what you can get, and ask for nothing more. Give what you can give, regardless of whether or not you were asked. Receive what is offered to you for the sake of him who offered himself for us.
18. Blood is thicker than water.
19. “Be mindful of the future” –Yoda “But not at the expense of the moment, keep your concentration on the here and now where it belongs” –Qui-Gon Jin.
20. The Lord requires us to do what is just, to show constant love, and to live in humble fellowship with God. This means to live righteously and in the humble knowledge that Grace cannot be earned, accepted of our own power and discernment.
21. Pray to God for discernment and wisdom. For with them we may find serenity. “God, grant me the courage to accept the things I cannot change. Lord, grant me the strength, discipline, and courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference”
22. God is not a Hypocrite. One cannot morally turn from Christ because of success or great suffering. Christ paid for our salvation with his own blood, so that no one on the last day can say: “What do you know of success or glory?” or “What do you know of hate, pain, torment, grief, and suffering”. Look at the cross. See our Lord Crucified. He knows man, he knows! All terrible things Christ has suffered, and all glory is his. Why do we condemn him because of our own experiences? We are not above Christ, and Christ, who is above us, came to be a servant, and took all our sins upon his head and placed himself below the lowest of any of us. God is not a Hypocrite.
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The Walking Dead
Posted Feb 16, 2003
Everyone who will have a chance to read this happens to know my real name. Including some of my other nicknames, I am known (both affectionately and jokingly) as the Walking Dead. This fits in with my heritage. A little history is in order.
The name Tuhy goes back to Ellis Island at the beginning of the last century, when the name Tuhe'ho became one of millions of names changed by translators as they went through the heartbreak island just off the coast of New Jersey.
The name Tuhe'ho goes back to Lutherans in Solvakia in the mid 1700s. Slovakia (my father's side is 100% Slovak) is arguably the most Roman Catholic (and actually the most moral) nation in the world. This is because vice is not well tolerated in the country, and any amoral slovaks would just go and live in the neighboring prostitute filled Czech Republic.
In the 1700s, Lutheranism was not well tolerated, (though at the time Lutheranism and Roman Catholicism were basically the same) and my ancestors were persecuted because of it. They lived like gypsies moving around in wagon carts, though living like this was nothing new to the ChepalyardicTuhe'ho clan.
Not having any oxen to pull their wagons, the men of the ChepalyardicTuhe'ho clan pulled their wagons themselves, by wearing oxen yolks on their own necks and shoulders. This by itself is physically exhausting, but to pull a wagon with it borders on lunacy.
When the ChepalyardicTuhe'ho clan (both famous and infamous in their nation) finally found a Lutheran town where they were welcomed. Impressed by their feats of endurance and pulling their wagons with oxen yolks, the townsfolk remarked (both seriously and in laughing disbelief) that the ChepalyardicTuhe'hos were "Tuhe'ho", the Slovak word meaning tough, enduring, or determined. When they found out that the word Tuhe'ho was the second half of the name of clan ChepalyardicTuhe'ho, they decided that the first part of the name for their clan was unnecessesary, as that was how the ChepalyardicTuhe'ho clan became the Tuhe'ho clan.
But the ChepalyardicTuhe'ho clan which became the Tuhe'ho clan was not always the Tuhe'ho clan. A thousand years before they were the Chepalyardic clan, but that all changed with a pair of monks, Cyril and his brother Methodius.
Cyril and Methodius (now Saints Cyril and Methodius) were brothers in the 800s from Byzantium, who went to convert the Slavic peoples. They went to Rome and the papacy gave approval for their mission, though many in Rome thought these two brothers were insane to even attempt to convert the "unconvertable pagan Slavs".
Cyril and Methodius managed to convert either the Chepalyardic or the leader of Chepalyardic clan (if the leader converted than everybody had to). Bishop Methodius (though only a priest at the time) baptized the Chepalyardic clan and christened them a new clan name, ChepalyardicTuhe'ho, both naming them and complimenting their attributes in their own language.
And so my nickname is the Walking Dead. No matter how tired I get, or how much the world and stress (much of which I bring on myself) I still keep on going. I am enduring and determined. A faith decision (a leap of faith for sure) motivated me to make a profession of faith and become Roman Catholic on Friday morning of this last week. I was accepted and confirmed at 8:30 on a Friday morning, which is also interesting, as I was born at 8:30 on a Friday morning. When a person is confirmed Roman Catholic they decide on a confirmation name. I decided on Methodius.
So, my name is Micah Joel Desiderious Methodius Tuhe'ho, the Walking Dead. And I keep on coming.
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