This morning we woke up on time and made it to mass.  This was especially noteworthy given that we lost an hour of sleep due to daylight savings time.  Everyone behaved fairly well but both boys fidgeted alot and kept tugging at me which was very distracting.  I don't recall at the moment what the gospel reading was.  I talked a lot with my sons about recalling our sins before the mass started.  I guided them in the process examining the past days to see the daily mistakes we make like griping at each other, disobeying, breaking rules, not sharing, etc.  Now I recall that our first reading was the temptation of Eve and Adam and the original sin, and the gospel was Jesus tempted in the desert.  This is the basis of the Lenten practice of abstinence.  I thought of my own difficulties with temptation and worldly dependencies.

My thoughts and prayers were with Japanese people again today.  I saw personal accounts of being caught up in the tsunami and of seeing loved ones swept away.   This was much more moving than the coverage of the material disaster of the past few days.

My body was a bit tires today from the yard work I did yesterday.  I was disappointed that I didn't get any school work done.

I worried today about my lack of twelve step activity lately.   It has been 6 days since I last wrote a journal.  As usual, my kids activities, family obligations, and wife working kept me from making a meeting.  I am grateful to have a wife and kids and that one of us is bringing in some income.

I made a mistake took my son and his siblings to the baseball fields for practice today.  I got the date wrong, it is scheduled for next week.  But since we were all ready to practice and play outdoors, i took them to the park in our neighborhood.  We had a great time and got in some good outdoor activity.

In the evening I was exhausted and fell asleep before the kids were ready for bed.  They woke me up and I can't sleep so I am journaling this day and will perhaps go back through the past week and make some entries.  It has been a wonderful week even though it is one of the most insecure times of my life.  I have experienced incredible insights that I hope to be able to recall.

Thanks be to God.