4th day of Lent...

A snowy day focusing on the death of my career. I had such high hopes for what I wanted to do. At least I was able to do a lot of snow shoveling which helped.

3rd Day of Lent...

Things are going on as they have for the past few days. My chickens are coming home to roost and I'm being watched like I know nothing. I get extra work which interferes with things that need to be done.

Also I'm concerned that when I try to be firm and stand up for myself, I'm accused of being insulting and yelling...

2nd Day of Lent

What have I done??

"Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, who leads us in our faith and brings it to perfection: for the sake of the joy which lay ahead of him, he endured the cross, disregarding the shame of it, and has taken his seat at the right of God's throne.

3 Think of the way he persevered against such opposition from sinners and then you will not lose heart and come to grief.

4 In the fight against sin, you have not yet had to keep fighting to the point of bloodshed.

5 Have you forgotten that encouraging text in which you are addressed as sons? My son, do not scorn correction from the Lord, do not resent his training,

6 for the Lord trains those he loves, and chastises every son he accepts.

7 Perseverance is part of your training; God is treating you as his sons. Has there ever been any son whose father did not train him?

8 If you were not getting this training, as all of you are, then you would be not sons but bastards.

9 Besides, we have all had our human fathers who punished us, and we respected them for it; all the more readily ought we to submit to the Father of spirits, and so earn life.

10 Our human fathers were training us for a short life and according to their own lights; but he does it all for our own good, so that we may share his own holiness.

11 Of course, any discipline is at the time a matter for grief, not joy; but later, in those who have undergone it, it bears fruit in peace and uprightness.

12 So steady all weary hands and trembling knees 

13 and make your crooked paths straight; then the injured limb will not be maimed, it will get better instead.

I'm a sinner and an going through this at work!! This is what Fr. Larry Richards preached on this today on EWTN!

40 Days...

Another Ash Wednesday. There aren't 40 days of rain. More like snow and record cold. (Calling Al Gore!!)

The world seems to be going through the ringer on all levels. I tried to get one of the 40 things to do for Lent, but failed. Oh well...

A day late and a dollar short...

But...

“Je Suis Charles Martel”

Happy Birthday to the United States Marines!!

And when October goes

October is the best month, yet now it has gone. I've had some things end, yet many things good happen this October. My life will be changing, but I hope it will be for the better.

Another 9 11...

It's hard to realize that 13 years have past since that horrible day. So many lives lost. And what have we learned. Islam is on the rise and there seems nothing we can do about it...

Happy Hiroshima Day?

Uh,,, maybe I'm out of it, but I haven't seen ANYTHING about the anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima. In years past, there were solemn floating candles on the local river to churn up guilt over the bombing of Hiroshima. But, nothing this year. Has it become passe?

Happy Father's Day!

This is the first Father's Day I can't wish my father a Happy Father's Day. In the weeks before, I kept having the thought that I should get something for him or at least give him a call. But I can't...

Réquiem ætérnam dona ei  Dómine; et lux perpétua lúceat ei. Requiéscat in pace