Love & Kindness

Again, the above is NOT me, nor my wife, but I did like the image quite a bit.  I do love my wife so very much.  I am fortunate she loves me.  I try to find many ways to express my love to her.  

Yesterday, my wife and I went to a "Care & Share" meeting.  That is the what I have labeled these meetings which are ostensibly meant to be "Adult Catechism" in our Parish.  As it is now Advent, we have a series of four "Care & Share" meetings where we watch a video put on by various folks involved in Catholic doctrine and teachings, and then we are supposed to discuss points of the video using a textbook which poses discussion questions.  And,  the videos and textbook ARE quite nice and have been informative.  But, unfortunately, the folks in this group do not really have much in the way of "focus" on the textbook, and instead within minutes, the discussion devolves into folks simply chatting about family and friends and work, etc.  It becomes a veritable "social hour" minus beer.

And, I have resigned myself to the above.  I do like being part of the group.  But, I WOULD really like to DISCUSS and DISSECT OUT MEANING from the videos we watch and from the questions posed.  I guess it is the academic in me, but the experience is not the educational learning experience I had initially hoped for way back when my wife and I had first started going to these in the new Parish.... but.... I do try to spend time OUTSIDE of the "Care & Share" meeting to work through the workbook.... but it feels..... a bit "blah" to do so.

We also had a bigger snowfall than was predicted yesterday (about 3 inches, ~7.5cm).  So, I am at the U, but am waiting to see how the roads appear by this afternoon to see if it would be appropriate for me to still cavort to the nearby (but distant) town to the "Retiree's Cigar Group.... or if that would be foolhardy.  I do hope I can go.

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