This morning we were late getting up but I took it easy and we made it to mass on time and the kids were fairly well behaved. We avoided stress and irritability.

In the afternoon I became resentful that my wife was gone for a long time. I wasn't so much resentful at her as just not happy with not being able to accomplish anything that I wanted to do.

I got some dishes done, I got the trash out, I got some leaves put out, I chopped some firewood for the evening. I am listing these things to help see that I did something with this day.

I see now that these things were minor in comparison to guiding my kids in their spiritual formation, being present and loving in their lives, keeping them clean and fed and healthy, and just spending leisure time with them. I truly did accomplish alot today.

Tonight I watched a program about the assassination attempt by Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg on Adolf Hitler. The thing that got my attention was that he was a devout Catholic and his moral revulsion came from this.

Thank be to God for a good day.