This morning I was late waking up. I was tired after a long day alone with the kids and a lot of housecleaning on Saturday. The kids were awake and getting into spats about my oldest son harassing the others to watch his magic tricks and harassing my wife and I to wake up. I angrily yelled at them so that my wife would wake up and handle it because I wanted to sleep. This was selfish of me and I was resentful about the whole magic thing that my wife got my oldest kid into. Fortunately she didn't hold it against me but I still felt guilty for being that way to the kids (God's kids).

I was afraid that we would be late getting to church and be stressed out. Fortunately I caught myself in these feelings ad decided to take it easy. My wife got up well before me and took unexpected initiative to get the kids well prepared. We got there on time and in good spirits. The kids were unexpectedly well behaved. Thanks be to God.

Today was Pentecost Sunday. Fr. Charlie Van Winkle presided over the mass and our Fr. Barry gave a great homily. It was a spiritually moving experience and a special treat for us. During the communion I watched my son take communion in the normal mass and I felt very proud of him. I found myself a little distracted and the thought came to me that I should be especially focused on this day. I turned my thoughts to God and made an effective spiritual communion. I've got to get back into the confessional so that I can take the Eucharist. Fr. Charlie's Holy Boldness exhorted me back to a deeper spiritual life.

After the mass I went to the treatment center meeting. I was the only one there. The attendant said that no one made it last week. I talked about the insanity that we talked about in our meeting the night before. But, the meeting gravitated to talk about the cross addiction with lust. It was a great meeting with a lot of guys coming up to me afterward and saying that they appreciated our discussion.

This evening I sat the three little kids on the couch and my oldest son did a magic show for us. I was wonderful to watch him perform and to watch the other kids enthusiastically participating. As I write this I am pleased that he is doing something he likes just for the fun of it.

My wife got some attention and comments tonight about how nice she looks having lost a lot of weight.

Thanks be to God for this day.