Catholic Formation

My wife and I are conducting a RCIA class (the second one we have conducted). We really do enjoy being involved in the formation of new catholics, or at least those that are contemplating coming home to the one true church.

 "To teach is to learn twice."  ~Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842

The best part of leading this group is that it forces me to sit down and really think about what I beleive and why. What a great leaning experience.

Thoughts on todays readings

If Satan went to God today and said "sure it is easy for Shannon to be faithful, look at all that you have blessed him with", and God then allowed him to take away my blessings (think Job), would I be one who keeps praising God and rejecting the devil?

If God asked me to carry someone I love very much to the top of the mountain and sacrifice them, would I have the faith of Issac? 

I would like to think so. I pray that I will never be tested by God in that way. 

Thanks be to God for giving us both Job and Issac to learn and reflect upon.

They are not alway old Irish men.

Feel blessed to know him.

Sometimes in life, you run across a person that is both Holy and fun. Two thoughts that seem opposed to each other. If you are blessed enough to know that type of person, you lucky person. We have a friend that is just that, through his humor and good nature, you find yourself getting closer to God. Those that know him, know what I am talking about.

Fisher of Men

"You catch them, I'll clean them!" - GOD

This is pretty cool. Who ever said that religious brothers were boring!

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You may or may not know (if you don't I would understand since I have not mentioned it up to this point) that I am a computer technician. I work for myself and have been doing so for about 8 years now.

It is a very time consuming occupation, but I would not trade it for anything. I really do love my work.

Apart from taking a lot of time, it is also very thought consuming. That is, it keeps me thinking about the problems of others and how I can help fix them.

But the best thing of all is that it allows me to spend the time to go camping (pic is our campsite at Kolomoki mounds at Thanksgiving), hiking, and generally spending time with my best friend and the person that keeps me sane, my wife of almost 19 years, Linda.