This morning we got off to church late but we got there on time. My wife got stressed out with the kids and i felt that it was because she didn't wake up until 9:30. But, I had to let it go and just remember that it is more important for me not to stay angry and to forgive her.

Our priest gave a very good homily about being between a rock and a hard place. Our first reading was from exodus about Moses getting water from a rock. He drew the analogy of being stuck between a rock and a hard place. That the hard place as our expectations, anxieties, and doubts and that the water from the rock as God's ability to solve them. The Gospel reading was Jesus giving water to the Samaritan woman and about the living water.

I thought about my spiritual experience and about my doubts and eventual surrender and leap of faith. I also thought about how this works today about how when trouble comes and I can't see a possible resolution that I must still believe in the living water from the rock.

After mass i went to the treatment center meeting. We guys on the panel were a little flat but solid. we had a good meeting and a guy asked me to sponsor him. I thought about stressing the important of surrender. I though about how important it is to explain what working a step entails; the study (and writing), the guidance, and the prayer or affirmation. I gave him an assignment and told him to give me checkin calls. I forgot to tell him to call me even if he fails to do everything.

When I left I talked to my sponsee that I didn't hear from yesterday. We are going to meet tomorrow afternoon.

Afterward I went to pick up my glasses. I put them on and found that I made a mistake in not ordering bifocals. I found that my vision has gotten worse and that I don't have a choice. I had left with my readers but decided that I had to go back and exchange them. I was very disappointed. I am grateful that God gives me the assertiveness to go back and do the right thing but it is going to cost more and I can't see how we can afford it. I also have to practice some delayed gratification and wait until tomorrow. Nevertheless I am grateful that I will get the glasses that I need.

In the afternoon I got to practice baseball with my son.
This evening I got to play chess with my son.
This afternoon another guy asked me to sponsor him.

I don't know how I am going to fit in all that is going on in my life but thanks be to God that he can spring forth water from a rock.