This Sunday morning the kids and wife were still at the coast.  I was disappointed that my wife didn't make sure that they made it to mass somehow.  I just had to accept it and consider that I should be more assertive about this next time.

We were blessed to have Fr. Charlie Van Winkle preach for us.  He talked about his Faith-Love Principle or FLP. This is a simple way of calling on the name of Jesus the minute that we begin to entertain sinful thoughts.  Without going into detail I thought this was particularly appropriate for me.

I struggled to get focused on school work but was very happy to get some done.

I was very happy to see my family home in the afternoon.  I got to walk with the kids to the park in the late afternoon.

I thought a lot this day about the blessing of carrying the message of recovery to others.  I thought of a new outline to tell mys story, citing the major attempts to get sober, the way that my orientation to the material and aversion to the spiritual was my persistent obstrucle, and then cite one-by-one, the blessings of recovery.

Thanks be to God.