This Saturday morning after rousing and feeding the kids, I went to the ball field to complete their registration.  I ran into the commissioner who is also the coach of our team.  I had an embarrassing moment where I walked up to him as he was talking to someone and realized that they were having an intense conversation about some issue the guy had.  My phone radio started playing  and it took me a long time to get it to stop.  Nevertheless, I had a good conversation about strategies when our sons move up and he informed me that my son would likely be good enough to play select baseball.

A little later in the morning I spoke to my sponsee and he said that our step talk for 1-3 was very helpful to him.  I was grateful for the opportunity to be of service.

My wife went to work in the afternoon leaving me with the kids for the evening which meant that I couldn't go to the meeting at my 12 step home group which I want to serve.

I got a surprise visit from an old childhood acquaintance.  His beer breathe almost knocked me over and he was very animated.  He went through vivid accounts of life in our neighborhood when were kids and I saw that he had this glorious vision of that time.  I was not so enthusiastic and had a stand offish attitude toward him.  I never invited him in and my smaller children came outside and interrupted us alot. I felt bad afterward because I was not more hospitable but after some thought I realized that I had set an appropriate boundary.

Thanks be to God.