Friday, August 19, 2011

This morning I had to exert myself to stick to my prayers.  My mind wanted to bounce from thought to thought chaotically.  It seems that I have drifted into this pattern over the last few days.

I was disappointed that I didn't wake up on time and neither did the kids.  I had to catch myself and resist chastising them and take responsibility for it myself.  We weren't terribly late but if it had been a school day we would not have been on time.  I started out the morning with depressed feelings about lacking energy and initiative.  But I drew a sense  of encouragement from having completed my prayers with effective meditation on my virtue goals.  Then, after breakfast, the realization came that Wednesday was a physically and emotionally exhausting day, that's all.  I did not back slide, I just was having a little understandable fatigue.

After we got going, it turned out to be a productive day.  I was grateful to get the kids active outside in the morning and then get some school support service tasks in order.  I had a good talk with my daughter's pre-school director.  My wife took the older kids to their "meet the teacher" appointments.

All day I had to catch myself griping at the kids and work to handle things systematically.  There was a point where I was too harsh with my words to my oldest son when he was whining.  But he seemed to respond to it and later we made amends.

In the evening my parents took myself and my kids to buy shoes for school.  We had a nice dinner back home and watched the 2003 LLWS quarter final game.

Thanks be to God for this day.

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