How many times have we said that? If only I had more time. If only I had more money. If only I had more faith. Throughout my life, I have always been an “If only “ guy. Whether it is “If only I had made this choice, this would have happened.” I have even said …
Category: Life Lessons
Update: How Things Change
After I wrote my last post I had another one of those "coincidences" where out of the blue something happened to shake things up. It is starting to make me think that God really is listening to me. First, let me start by saying I don't believe in coincidences. There was a time when I …
How Things Change
I have had a few rough weeks at work lately. The problem is, now let me try to put this as nice as I can, I am surrounded by profanity, negative thinking, and profanity. Okay, I shouldn't say surrounded, it doesn't emanate from my office but from the one next to me. It really got …
Five out of Seven Ain’t Bad
Once again I must apologize for my lack of posts, although some may be thankful for that. I have no excuse. It certainly isn't for want of time, I have had plenty of that lately, I haven't been busy, not even with the RCIA program. Nope, I am just suffering from one of the seven …
Don’t Build a Bigger Barn
Yesterday's gospel reading was the "Parable of the Rich Fool" - Luke 12:13 - 21. This parable is about a rich man who has so much grain he doesn't know what to do with it. He decides to tear down his old barns and build a bigger one. He figures he will be all set …
Morals Really are this Simple
Anyone who has read any of my ramblings on this blog can attest that I am always talking about morality and the lack of the same in our culture. We are always hearing about moral relativism and how people consider morals to be relative to what is best for them. Different circumstances mean different morals. …
Pain and Suffering Part 2
As if there isn't enough pain and suffering in the world, let me write another blog post to bring some more into it. I want to continue my theme from two posts ago where I began talking about pain and suffering and whether or not God is responsible for it. In part 1 we pretty …
Pain and Suffering – Part 1
Today I am going to write about a subject I usually keep to myself - Pain and Suffering. Not the pain and suffering of others or even of the world in general, but my own. I am not sure I have talked about it here before, maybe a long time ago, but I was diagnosed …
Give Me Strength
I don't normally talk about my past other than to say I wasn't the best Catholic or Christian and I made a lot of bad choices. But the last few days have brought back some memories of when I was younger, mostly about my Dad. This past Tuesday my wife had a total hip replacement …
Slow to Speak
The other day I played hooky from work, something I don't usually do. I had a bunch of things that needed doing that can only be done during the week so I spent the day driving from here to there and back again. One of my stops included a local Trappist monastery. While my visit …
The Wayward Catholic 