This morning I got off to another late start but it wasn't as painful. I realized last night that my morning difficulties are rooted in large part to a return of the desire to sleep in. When this idea was squashed as an option then I got in the habit of getting out of bed as soon as I woke up.

At noon today I forced myself to trudge through my trepidation and go to the noon mass at the cathedral downtown. It was an awesome experience. As I was walking there the crowds on the street seemed more secular, atheistic, and hedonistic than usual. A lady passed me with a tattoo of a bat on her.


A business woman passed very close to me in a big hurry a few blocks away. She passed so close that I could smell her in the heat. When I got to the mass she was there. It wasn't a seductive experience or anything but it was just one of many small signals that I was being led there. Inside the cathedral it was like entering another world, like a cool, refreshing, haven from the depravity of the world outside. The colors seemed unusually bright and during the mass my ears starting ringing exceedingly loud.

Back at work I felt the most free from fear than I have in the last 3 weeks. I also felt more strongly than ever that God placed me in the middle of this city in this age to do his work... somehow - to be revealed.

I got to talk to a sponsee tonight.

This evening i got to take my son to practice and i had a renewed sense of service to these families.

A relative who just got out of treatment called me and I was pleased to hear that he went to a meeting.

Thanks be to God for a great day.