Hello Everyone! I posted a picture a few days ago of a book I was reading called, 'Ear To The Heart.' Subtitled 'Hollywood To Holy Vows' written by Richard DeNeut. I just started it, finished the first four chapters and I am in love with it.
It's about this little girl who was named Dolores Hart and her name may sound familiar. Her early life as a little girl was full of suffering, pain, and little joy. Her family was broken and she lived with her abusive father and mother for some years. Hart grew up in the city of blinding lights, fast speed life, and movie premiers, the beautiful city of L.A. where her father was a hand model. Hart converted to Catholicism when she was a young girl without anyone telling her too. She had made that decision around age six when she was put in a Catholic school where nuns surrounded her and she would be able to go and visit Jesus in the morning for morning mass. Too make a long, inspiring story short follow Dolores's journey from being called the most envied women in Hollywood giving Elvis Presley his first onscreen kiss to hearing God calling her heart and to become a nun. The true story of Mother Dolores Hart will change everything you've ever thought about nuns, forever.
Still focusing on Sister Mother Dolores Hart we will be expanding on the secondary topic of
'Likes' and Yes, meaning the likes you get on Facebook, Instagram, and the retweets and favorites you get on Twitter. A lot of us are on all kinds of Social Media. I'm on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. I'm a very obsessive pinner and you can ask my family and they will say the exact same thing.
When we post something whether it be something funny another family member said or did, or post a picture of what we're eating, or post about what we did that day we want Likes on the post because if we didn't want them we really wouldn't post it on Facebook. I know every time I post something I'm always just waiting for likes. It's really stupid but it's just what society has put in our heads. If we don't get likes then we're not cool, or no one likes me. I'm here to tell you once again that society is WRONG.
Likes on social media don't define who you are or your personality. Honestly if I'm friends with you or following you it means that I like what you post even if I don't actually like the picture.
Back when they didn't have Facebook though when Mother Dolores was just around the age of sixteen and in the movie, 'Loving You,' with Elvis can you imagine Dolores wanting all her friends to see her with Elvis and wanting to post the pictures and the trailer of the movie. In fact she would have to wait so long to tell her friends because she was on set day and night filming and now by the click of a button we can share things instantly.
When Hart heard the calling in her heart to become a nun and enter the vocation she was scared that some of the people who had followed her and been of fan of her since Loving You came out would stop liking her because she was now going to become a nun and proclaim God's love for her by following him and exclaiming his love he has for His sons and daughters.
I think we can all learn something from this story. We can all learn a few things but so we don't go off topic of Dolores I think what we can grasp from this is that we can use social media for all kinds of things but what we should be using it for proclaiming God's love and bringing people back to their faith or if they are going through a struggle to be there with them. Mother Dolores did all sorts of things in the midst of struggling for other people and even though we struggle we could help other people.
Share a Lifeteen post, post something you found inspiring from the homily or readings at church, and even post your favorite bible verse. Still, post pictures of you, your family, and friends and your crazy socks you found for a great deal but as you have a hundred some followers teach them about God, too.
God never said following him would be easy or you would have a number of followers but he did say in the bible if you follow him it will be worth it.
God is Good all the time and all the time God is Good,
Sincerely and Fearlessly, Sammy.
If you would like to learn more about Sister, Mother Dolores click here:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0366247/
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