Tuesday April 13,2021

Good morning everyone, today is Tuesday April 13, 2021. The weather says it’s going to be sunny today but not 70 degrees, only in the 50’s. So we take what we get. I trust everyone is well and all who went back to school yesterday made out okay.

I’m sure there was a certain amount of fear involved. Why shouldn’t there be , it is our way of life now. Fear by definition is an unpleasant feeling caused by sometthing real or imagined. We can develop a fear about anything. As a child you seem to be fearless and will do just about anything, that’s what youth is for. But then the realities of life set in and along with it it brings its friend fear. We start by being afraid of not doing well in school. We start to be afraid of doing new things. As a new parent you develop a fear of everything concerning the baby and how you will support them. I know I always refer back to the first immigrants here, I can only imagine what that was like, you didn’t speak the language, you looked different, you didn’t have a job or home but you had a family to support, imagine the fear they felt but they were resilient and took any job they could dug ditches to support their family , they couldn’t give into fear. The older you get you fear for your health , retirement a million things but we learn to overcome them or you can’t survive.

Now our world is bathed in fear, fear of places of people, travel, even the vaccine to help us we are afraid of what’s in it. Children are no longer fearless, they to fear people and if they are going to make them sick. But now is the time we have to put our trust in god, he had given us doctors, technology and A million other safeguards for us to be safe. So as things begin to reopen we just need to be smart and follow all the guidelines and we will get through this because we to are resilient.

Many months ago I told you about when I was an altar boy. In those days The Monstrance was placed on the altar in church ( The Holy Eucharist ) and someone needed to dtay with it. As a little guy I was the altar boy assigned, I was about 7 or 8 they forgot me there because the other boys never showed up for there time slot. I was too afraid to leave it alone for hours until my mother finally found me. Yesterday I visited the church to see the host again. I again was all alone in the church but of course I was no longer afraid. I was in peace and comfort, it seems I have a new relationship with god. After all he has given me. I was able to thank him for what he is doing to help us through this nightmare and especially prayed for the children that someday this will just be a memory to them.

So I will close today wishing you the best. Again take time today to make yourself happy, we live with enough misery. Make yourself have some enjoyment. We will talk again, Til Tomorrow! By the way the sun is coming out take advantage.