To Do or Not To Do -

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Quote for the Day: Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the moment it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before. . ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Friday

You know what is discouraging? It's to find a "To Do" list from a year ago and find out that most of the same "To Do" things still apply. If some of the things actually did get done... they need to be done again... and if they didn't get done.. in a whole year... well that's discouraging.

But then again, what the heck. Life is too short to worry about getting all the "To Do's" done..... and it just goes to show... somehow one survived without getting them done anyway. Maybe things would have been better - maybe not.

My new motivational force is set to spend the next eight weeks working with the radio station. For the last few days I've been brainstorming what to do and when and all sorts of exciting things like that. Then will come the actual doing of them. Is that any fun?

Will have to work in some fun - that is one thing I have learned with this goal setting stuff.. if you don't put in a system of rewards.... then the system doesn't stick! At least with me.... kind of like training a dog.. you periodically need a few treats to keep on target. Got to be something better than those smelly things Shelly eats though.....

Blessings of Peace and All Good,
Sister Patricia

The Confession Connection The Sacrament of Reconciliation: Celebrating God's Forgiveness by Sandra DeGidio, O.S.M. Day Three: A Journey home to God The parable of the prodigal son can help us understand the stages in our journey to reconciliation—and the order in which they occur. This helps us see why the theology of the new rite of reconciliation suggests a reordering in the pattern that we were familiar with in the past. The journey for the young man in the parable (and for us) begins with the selfishness of sin. His sin takes him from the home of his parents—as our sin takes us from the shelter of God and the Christian community. His major concern in his new self-centered lifestyle—as is ours in sin—is himself and his personal gratification. None of the relationships he establishes are lasting. When his money runs out, so do his "friends." Eventually he discovers himself alone, mired in the mud of a pigpen, just as he is mired in sin. Then comes this significant phrase in the story: "Coming to his senses at last..." This is the beginning of the journey back, the beginning of conversion. To be continued A selected article from "101 Inspirational Stories of the Sacrament of Reconciliation."