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No special story. Some sneezes are disorienting. Lately I do feel like I’m living in the aftermath of some tremendous sneeze.
 
When coaching a few students after school some 20 years ago, they asked for a different name to call me – a different one from the real name they used during class.

So on the spot I laughingly told them they could call me “Gertabelle Trunk.”

The name stuck, and some of those kids called me that name long after they’d moved onto middle and high school. 😄
 
Matthew 19:26…With God all things are possible.

I tried to make it my username but the system made me shorten it to MT1926.

All of my life I’ve overcome some pretty huge obstacles and accomplished quite a bit more than I ever thought I would. I’ve always believed that what I have been able to accomplish in this life was a gift from God. Especially, since I had a brain injury at 5 and the Doctors told my parents I would probably have a learning disability for the rest of my life.

After years of receiving all of these great gifts from God I now have a new revelation and a new , just as important verse of scripture…

Luke 12:48 To whom much is given, of him will much be required.

That’s what brought me here. God has given me much with the ability to be able to learn and understand the Faith. I know that He will require of me to delve as deep as I can and try to understand as much as humanly possible in this life time. Chatting here with others, especially those who object, makes me look deeper into the meaning of our Catholic Faith. My main goal in life now is to be able to stand before God and here those words of comfort…Well Done Good and Faithful Servant.

God Bless
 
My dad was Irish, my mom Italian.

My faith, my way of thinking and raising my family is more along the lines of my dad’s personality. I see a lot of my father in me. Hence, Irishmom. I had to add the 2 because they said that username was already taken.

I am sorry to disappoint anyone that thought I am from Ireland all this time. 😉
 
I like walking trees. What can I say?

Also, on forums, people tend to just spout off whatever comes into their minds. Ents are the exact opposite. “Don’t be hasty” is their model and it takes them forever to say anything. We all could all learn a few lessons from that especially on internet forums.
 
I could but I won’t. I don’t wish to be found in the ph. book. I will only say that what you see is not my given name.
 
Mine is my name and the last 4 digits of my social security number.

Just kidding. 😜
 
I thought maybe you were born on New Years eve '58 just as it was transitioning to 1959.
 
No, I was born in the 70s, not the 50s. It’s actually the numbers of two retreats I went on that were instrumental in my faith journey.
 
Joe_5859 said:
Aw, man. I was hoping that your username would have a cool story behind it. 😞
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Sorry. 🤷‍♀️ I don’t know if this counts, but I enjoy the idea that this username probably inspires people to imagine a certain wild sneeze sound in their head, and that everyone’s imagined sound is a little bit different.

I don’t know if I have any really good sneeze stories. My most disorienting sneeze I can think of struck when I had a mouthful of Listerine. I’d recommend against that if it can be helped.
 
I have two say, DisorientingSneeze is by and far one of the best user names I have ever come across
 
Michael the Archangel. He, along with my guardian angel have saved my neck far too often.

My parents choose Michael as my middle name after him.
 
I was named after my father’s sister. My Aunt Anna died when I was three months old. She had given birth two months before my mom and had alot of complications which took her life. My father told me that Anna was his favorite sister and that’s why my parents named me after her. I always felt close to her and whenever I felt really down I would go to the cemetery and “talk” to her.I love that I was given her name and also that it is the name of our Blessed Lady’s Mother. God bless…🦋
 
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Monsignor Vernon Johnson, an Anglican clergyman who converted to Catholicism and became a Catholic priest, was an apostle and teacher of the spirituality of St. Thérèse. He founded the Apostolic Association of Priests of St. Thérèse, which gave retreats based on her spirituality.
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It was in the late autumn of 1924. I was standing in an Anglican convent and holding in my hands a book, the autobiography of Saint Therese of Lisieux. It had been put into my hands by the Reverend Mother of the Convent to which I had been sent to take a retreat.

I had protested, saying that that sort of book did not interest me, that I had looked into it some years before in a (Roman) Catholic shop and had come to the conclusion that it was sentimental and artificial, un-English, and that it was just another Roman Catholic scheme for exciting devotion amongst the public, and that I distrusted it. The Reverend Mother replied that I ought not to say that. So I submitted and took the book.

But to me, as I stood in that autumn of 1924 with the autobiography of Saint Thérèse in my hand, these doubts and wonderings had not as yet occurred. I was entirely absorbed in the conversion of souls to Our Blessed Lord through the Anglo-Catholic revival in the English Church. I had no sense whatever of insecurity, no doubts whatever as to my position. It was not till another year and a half had passed that I was to experience the beginnings of those torturing doubts and that sickening sense of fear that was gradually to fill my mind. The tremendous “jolt” had not come to me; it was to come at Lisieux, but not till eighteen months had passed.

I took the Life of Saint Thérèse up to my room and began to read it. The first two chapters did not appeal to me at all: indeed, I found it difficult to get through them. Gradually, however, the story gripped me, and it is quite impossible to describe my state of mind when at last, long after midnight, I laid down the book. All I can say is that it moved my whole being as no other piece of writing has ever done.
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