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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
The Joy of Living is one of the most elusive of all endowments.
Why? Just watch a child and you’ll find your answer. Having a child (9-year old boy) in our home is a daily reminder.
We all, at least I do, need daily reminders of this simple fact, don’t we? Why? Because life is hard, especially in today’s challenging and uncertain world.
Every day is an opportunity to count our blessings. Anyone need a calculator?
Sundays during the school year, our Church offers Children’s Liturgy of the Word for Kindergarten through fifth grade. Two or three adult leaders form a team and lead a particular week each month.
The volunteer leaders perform various functions to help bring Mass down to an Elementary level and to engage the children differently (better) than the adult Mass.
My wife, a good friend, and I, lead 50-100 children through Children’s Liturgy every the fourth Sunday.
This past Sunday, for a variety of reasons, my wife Cheryl led it solo. Sixty-five children in all. She said they were incredibly well behaved. If you’ve never done this, you’d be amazed at how challenging it is.
We began volunteering in this ministry several years ago after a parishioner made a plea for more volunteers or the program would end.
Funny how life puts things in your path. This experience has me delivering homilies (sermons). Who would have ever thought? Me? You’ve got to be kidding.
What if you started everyday on your knees? And if you don’t have knees, like a few of my friends, use whatever position would be your equivalent.
What would happen to you if you did this every day?
Would it ruin your morning?
Would it be disgustingly inconvenient?
Would you look or feel like a fool?
This begs a question. “Why don’t you start everyday this way? Seriously”.
The previous post was about “what I’m thankful for”.
I just wrote the same thing a different way at www.Lane8.org, which is my website for Dreaming big, getting there, and most difficult and important of all, staying there.
Count your blessings. Do something great. If you don’t do this, who will? If not now, then when? Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂
Everything.
Seriously.
EVERYTHING!
Carpe diem, jeff 🙂