01.17.2025 | Ordinary Friday

It's a sunny morning here in the Carondelet Garden on this Ordinary Friday in January.  It almost feels mild and balmy outside with the 30-degree temperatures right now.  We should see mid-50s by this afternoon.  A few showers may develop later on the day.  A welcome respite and hopefully more melting.

It has been a wild and wooly beginning to this new year.  Crazy weather extremes, a world at rage and war, a city with more than its share of problems that need fixing.  Yet, with all the turmoil there is hope.  My prayer now is that we all come to realize that the only thing that is good for any of us is what is good for all of us.  I pray for wisdom.  Wisdom is not insisting on the old ways of doing things.  It is the ability to make the ancient truth the enduring memory of today.  

If I want to be alive.  Truly... fully alive, then I must open myself to that ancient truth, to life's eternal dream.  I must dream to be a better person tomorrow than I am today.  I must hang on to my faith, my hope and especially my love for myself and my love for others.  A simply, ordinary life filled with faith, hope and love.  If it were only that easy.

The weekend is almost here.  A three-year-old's birthday party, a CFP Championship with my beloved Notre Dame and the Lions are on primetime this Saturday.  Let's go Irish!  That's all the news from here in the Carondelet Garden.