The week went quickly...

No issues.  No problems, other than my continuing tendency to let "imaginings" trouble me.

Yep.

About the only heartache I had all week is that Miss natalie, whom I have known since age 2, is now a teen and is acting like it...a bit standoffish.  Couldn't  be the father of a teen girl; I think I would suffer some kind of emotional breakdown.

That's her, on the far right.

Won't dwell on it. Why?  Life goes on. People grow up and change.  We all move on, like it or not.  That stance tells me how much I have "matured" since middle age.  When one of my favorites, and yes, it was usually a little girl (think whatever you like about that-I really no longer care) grew older and pulled away, it would often distress me, sometimes in a big way.

Not this time.

Unsure about where my spiritual journey goes from here.  Only saw Pope urban twice this week and I avoided him both times.  St. Paul the Apostle has changed, markedly.  I can see that.  There are "nlo trespassing"signs all over the grounds and the place is often locked up. I mentioned how cold the K of C Brothers were to me.  The one or two times I attended mass, there was but one guitarist in the choir and the music reminded me more of what I would hear at pre vatican 2 Our Lady of Grace Church across town.  I don't feel comfortable with any of that.

I recall how irreligious my mother became and I fear I am beginning to understand how that happened.  I find my stomach sours when religious matters come up and I dislike those who are overt with their "religion," particularly evangelicals.  Want to travel to Romania, next summer, to visit with Faith and her family, but I know how evangelical they are. As i have said to others, repeatedly, my troubles are not with Jesus, but with those who claim they are His followers, particularly evangelicals. Jesus was NEVER so harsh and judgmental as they.

The "Fourth" looms ahead. I am staying home. First time in years.