Stuff We Do – Page 22 – Disney Customer Service Keynote Speaker

Do You Mind?

Being on the road for five days this week was rewarding and taxing. Unless you do this frequently, it may be challenging to understand, but I hope you do, because it’s the challenging part I want to relate to you.

We are all faced with daily challenges. One person’s small challenge is another’s big challenge.

This will seem small in comparison to life-threatening issues, but herein lies a secret.

Being crazy-busy does not give us an excuse to be unfaithful.

So in picking up our son, late yesterday, as we got in the car, it hit me. I had not been on my knees in prayer yet. Each morning, it’s the same:

Wake up
Bathroom
Kiss Cheryl and Chapin as they sleep
Kneel at the foot of the bed
Say the three most important prayers

“Do you mind if I do it now”, I asked him. “No, I don’t mind”, he said.

What If?

What if you had started this morning on your knees?

What if, on your knees, you said a short prayer?

And what if you did this again tomorrow, and the next day.

I mean, what’s stopping you? It can’t be time.

Start Worrying When They Stop

When people who try to help you by encouraging you, by making suggestions, by practicing what they preach – sometimes obnoxiously – when they stop doing that, you know what I’d do if I where you?

Worry.

Deep In Thought?

Attended the 7:00AM Mass two hours ago here in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Maybe 150 Parishioners, including three children.

Had trouble hearing the Lector.

Don’t particularly recall the message.

But you can be sure I was deep in thought.

Plus, I got to sit between Johnny and Margaret, my In-Laws.

Was deep in thought, wondering if that will be the last Mass we ever attend together.

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

Yesterday, Chapin and I went to the mid-day showing of Diary of a Wimpy Kid at the Pleasure Island AMC 24 Theaters.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is based on the New York Times Best Seller book series by the same name.

I don’t do movie reviews, but I do pay attention – even when I try not to. And there was one line that I had to write down, in the darkness of the AMC theater:

“It’s our choices that make us who we are.”

Sometimes Most of the time, I feel like the lead character: misunderstood, freakish, and out of place.

But with Faith and Hope, our journey continues, and it begins anew today – like it does every day.

Will you have the presence of mind to think about the long-term effects of your choices today?

Of course, it is hard work. That’s one of life’s secrets. Some call it “the cross we bear”.

The long way is the short cut.