My life is so busy – or at least it seems that way. Work has been nuts over the past two weeks, and then I have life at home. Two boys and a busy, busy wife in nursing school. With my wife in a program that’s seemingly trying to kill her, our whole family has had to alter our well-practiced routine. I’ll be the first to admit that I haven’t pitched in as much as I should. Pray that I do.
Life at work and at home take up a tremendous amount of my time. But being the new, excited Catholic that I am, I’ve volunteered myself out of my remaining time. I’m in the choir (Advent season is very busy), I help out with CCD, as well as RCIA. I joined the Knights of Columbus, and I usually raise my hand for any number of other projects. The fact that my wife doesn’t attend church with me makes all of these tasks even more of a strain. I’m thinking that after the first of the year, I will cut back a bit. We’ll see.
The week before last I was preparing for a RCIA class on baptism and confirmation. I think it went relatively well. Our class is a wonderful group of people, all of whom are seriously discerning God’s will in their lives. I ask my readers for their prayers for our class. One couple in particular has been on my mind quite a bit lately. The husband is a baptist minister who recently made the decision to resign his church. The wife is very understandably wary, but a tremendous source of support for her husband. Please, please keep them in prayer. Last week I was preparing a lesson for the parish’s CCD class. It was my first time to directly speak to them, so I was racked with nervous anticipation. First impressions are really important when dealing with young people. I truly believe that God helped me to tell my story of coming to Catholic faith, and to do so in a manner that taught some important lessons. Maybe it was just me, but a few in that class were really, really listening to what I was saying. I pray that God uses anything I said or did to help form these young men and women into ‘intentional disciples‘ (I love that phrase, and I love that blog) of Christ.
I’ve also made a somewhat tenuous decision to really focus my study and ‘apologetics’ (if you can call it that) on the controversies between East and West. I tend to always fall into those discussions online. I find myself learning something, using it in a discussion, and not visiting the topic for months – only to have to ‘re-learn’ it. I’m tired of that process, so I really want to start accumulating material that I can readily access. Pray for that as well.
Again, I’m sorry for the lack of blogging these past few days.
