With the beginning of Lent, I have mad a commitment to read the daily readings each morning before I go to work. In addition I also read the "Daily Homily" as found on the Catholic Online website. Doing this in the morning gives me all day as I am driving around for my job to …
Tag: life lesson
A Hearse and a U-Haul
"Follow me". These are the words Jesus spoke to Levi a tax collector, who then rose from his desk and walked out the door, never looking back. Levi later became one of the twelve, Matthew. Could you do this, leave everything behind to follow Jesus? Here was Levi, a tax collector with a good paying …
Abortion for the Common Good
If you follow politics, you'll often hear the phrase, "the Common Good". This is most often heard from those on the Progressive Left, who love to enact programs and laws which they claim are for the "Common Good". It never seems to amaze me that a group who actively seeks to remove God and all …
One More Test
In my last post I spoke of how I have been feeling down lately and have lost confidence in myself. The question arises: Is God testing me? I have written about this before. but would like to elaborate a little more on it. I don't think God tests us per se. Satan, however certainly does. …
Breaching the Wall
I don't know why exactly but I feel myself sliding backwards in my faith. Whether it is because I have been out of work for a few months now or something else I feel like I an heading back towards where I spent the last too many years. I realize that God works in ways we don't always …
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
While doing some research today, I came across this table on making decisions. It's funny how God seems to send me these things when I have questions. Okay, okay, I know he doesn't directly send these things to me or does he? How to Make Decisions Often when we are making decisions we want to …
Weathering the Storm
I am writing this the day after Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast leaving a path of destruction, especially in the mid-Atlantic area. While I had some heavy rain and powerful wind gusts here, for the most part it seems we made it through okay. As I watched the wind buffet the trees, wondering if any …
Choices
One of the major themes I think about in my life is choices. We all make choices in our lives and we have to live with the consequences of these choices. Some of us make good choices, some of us make bad choices. some a combination of both. When I came back to God, okay I …
Things Happen
How do we know what God is trying to tell us? I have heard He is always with us always guiding us and all we have to do is listen. But how do we know what He is trying to tell us? Sure sometimes it is easy. There have been a few times in the past …
Rocky Ground
Perhaps you have been wondered why I call myself the "Wayward Catholic". Perhaps you haven't. Either way you will now learn the answer. According to Merriam-Webster.com, Wayward is defined as 1: following one's own capricious, wanton, or depraved inclinations : ungovernable <a wayward child> 2: following no clear principle or law : unpredictable 3: opposite to what is desired or expected :untoward I subscribe mostly to the …
The Wayward Catholic 