Tag: Religion

Volunteering – Involving Your Family?

Yesterday a fellow public speaker asked an excellent question. By the way, great professional speakers ask great questions.

“What about volunteering with your family”? It was not clear in yesterday’s post, so here it is now.

All our volunteer efforts start with, “Can we do this as a Family”?

Not only is being visible important to setting a good example, but so is involvement.

My wife serves as a Minister of Holy Communion on the days I Lector. Afterwards, our son helps me carry the Gospel (a very large, heavy book) back to the Sacristy. Been doing this since he could walk.

It was cute the first few years because it was only symbolic. He was not strong enough to actually help. But children don’t care. He actually believed he was lifting it.

You know, in a weird sort of way, he actually was. Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂

Volunteering Is A Lifestyle

Didn’t consciously think about this until our son was born in 2000.

In studying human nature, I concluded there were several choices:

  1. Volunteering for things that take you away from your Family
  2. Volunteering for things that do not take you away from your Family
  3. Volunteering for a little of both
  4. Not volunteering

This morning, I’m a Lector at our Church. Once or twice a month I have the privilege to read from the Old Testament or the New Testament.

The (two) Lectors act as God’s voice, and read critical pieces of scripture to the congregation.

Our son sees this every time I volunteer. Visible is good. Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂

Two Big Prayers?

Two Big Prayers? Pray that I can achieve the following two impossible goals:

  1. To become the kind of person my dog thinks I am.
  2. That when our son goes looking for Jesus, he’ll only have to look across the dining room table.

Do you have a few really BIG goals in your life? Are you comfortable posting them in the comments section?

Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂

Holy Family Odyssey of the Mind Team

Holy Family Catholic School Odyssey of the Mind team.

For the second consecutive year, Holy Family Catholic Church sent a team of young students to participate in Odyssey of the Mind World Championships.

This is an amazing accomplishment. The World Championships!

Click here to read the article from The Florida Catholic.

As my Family and I prepare this morning to attend Mass, we are reminded of the power of the Holy Spirit.

We are also reminded that great results require a whole team of people to make dreams come true.

Perhaps, if every person from every religion banded together to make Love stronger than hate, we could actually see a day where world peace is no longer a wish.

Now there’s an odyssey of the mind for ya. Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂

Happy Easter

Happy Easter. This is my fifth post today and I’m going to do the same thing as the fourth post, take a short cut.

Click DIVERSITY to read it.

You’ll find the blog post interesting whether you celebrate Easter or not. If you don’t find the article interesting, I’m sorry.

Make today a GREAT day, because if you don’t, who will. Carpe diem, jeff 🙂