Last night we went to the Christmas Tree festival at Zilker park. We were late getting home and exhausted and I fell asleep without doing a review.

Yesterday morning we were late waking up because we were very late getting to bed the night before. My wife was doing Christmas activities with the kids and they don't have school right now. I was also feeling sick with a mild head cold. I woke up feeling remorseful and unproductive. I had to do a lot of cleaning when I woke up.

Late in the morning I had to run some errands alone and I got to clear my head. I thought a lot about a career path and my feelings swung back to doing a career that is something that I am interested in and think about the most. I thought about how much of the thought life that a career requires and I questioned whether computer networking would be something that i would be able to do effectively.

I also thought alot about how to approach my sister. I asked my mentor about this last night and he immediately brought up evangelizing to her and suggested that I read the gospel of Matthew. I was reticent about this immediatlely but I looked into the scripture readings anyway. As I thought about this further I thought about my conversation with her and the reading from we agnostics last night and I thought about how this led me down the right path. I thought about how I need to speak to her in terms that she understands, not religious terms. I thought about how I needed to work up incrementially by speaking about the need for a spiritual life, then the need for a higher power, then the need for God, then the need for Christ. Along the way there are a lot of smaller increments and finer points that need to be addressed. I also thought of how we had started talking about the placebo affect and this would make a great inroad among several others.

In the afternoon I went to my sponsor's house to drop off a couple of bikes that I am gifting to him. I spoke to his wife and found out that he is in the hospital with a serious illness. Late in the evening I called him and spoke for a little while. I was able to tell him that the readings he gave me for my sister were helpful and could be helpful to him as well.

In the evening we went to the Christmas festival and had a great time except that my wife got extrememly resentful with me because I would not let let go of my autistic son's hand and let him roam free in the crowd. The festival is a trail of lights around a walking path and it was especially crowded and dark at some points and my son was very excited. I had to resist being angry.

In the evening I got to talk to a friend in recovery.

Thanks be to God.