This morning I got up on time and got off to a good start.  Before my oldest son woke up I remembered his self-esteem crisis from the night before and I took up where I left off wondering how to approach him.  My thoughts seemed very crisp this morning and I realized just how futile my approach had been last night.  It occurred to me that perhaps the idea of "the glass half full" would be appropriate.
     After a little while I turned on the TV for Fr. Barron's show "Word on Fire."  He gave a good talk about how we read the Bible and how we should know the great Church Fathers, like Origen, Aquinas, Agustin, etc.
     At mass our priest gave a wonderful sermon that was incredibly synchronous for me.  It was about the idea of perception of our problems.  He talked about the type of person who always sees the problems but never sees the good things in life.  He gave an analogy of looking at our yard and seeing only the few weeds cropping up and not the beautiful grass.  He also told of a saying that best sums it up: “Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.”  This was incredibly apropos for the problem with my son.
     It was a very busy day and I couldn't get over how much more active I was able to be than yesterday.  I fed the kids at both meals and i did some cleaning and played with the boys.  In the evening we went to a Jerusalem reenactment in a small town 50 miles away and stopped at a trail of lights on the way home.  I thought that my body must have been fighting off a virus or something yesterday.  In fact I heard there is one going around on the news tonight.  But I also did some catching up on journals tonight and realized what an incredibly busy and trying week it has been for me.
    Thanks be to God for this life.