A Monday much too busy.

First was Bible Study.   There were 6 of us there today.  We found that we had a lot to pray for and had a great discussion about what everybody should be doing to take care of each other - even on an international basis.   There are so many questions but the answers are not easy.   Some of them are very simple but simple does not mean easy.    Then I went to visit Mom

She looks wonderful.   She did say that she was feeling weak today.  It came kind of in waves.   I gave her communion and then took it to my other little people.   We had a super visit.  Eileen is so good at bringing and rotating pictures for her to enjoy and discuss.  Today she had one of Mother when she had her pet goat.   She had it when she was very young.  They had to send it away when it was getting a bit mean and going in the house and destroying things.   But the picture is adorable.

Then I picked up a Starbucks coffee and went to pick up my friend Sy Regan to go to the Sheboygan County Writers Club.  It was a nice meeting.   There were at least 20 people there.  We try to do an assignment every month.  This month we had - something people might not know about us.  This is what I wrote.

HOW MANY LIVES HAVE YOU LED

We all can make chapters of our lives.

Some are really exciting.

Some are mundane.

But they are all woven together

Into a tapestry of our time on earth.

To share one chapter not generally known

I must take you back to my childhood.

There was a nun, a serene, holy woman

Who taught us our Catechism as it was called 60 years ago.

Until I was eleven, she was my religious model

providing a weekly lesson of the Catholic faith.

At the age of fourteen, along with ten other besotted teenage girls,

I enrolled in the convent of the School Sisters of St. Francis

with the intention of becoming a serene, holy woman myself

Obviously, it didn't work.

I spent two and a half years in the Aspirant division of the nunnery. I am grateful for the education and values that I learned there. In time I came to know that this was not the life for me. My doubts came to a head when I went home to join my family in the baptism of my new baby brother. Holding him in my arms, it dawned on me that I would never get to hold my own baby in my arms. I had not enough experience of the world to commit to that life. I do not regret those years. I do not regret leaving.

Since then, the Sisters no longer accept girls as young as we were into the training for sisterhood. A wise move. Interestingly enough only one of the ten of us professed as a sister and she has since returned to a secular life.

Sometimes I think that I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

After the meeting I picked up a frame I had ordered, took Sy home,   did a bit of grocery shopping and got home.   Boy was my Roxie glad to see me.

I made a batch of Guinness Cupcakes and will make another batch tomorrow for the Tallgrass Condo Picnic.   I love to bake so this is heaven for me.

Hope your day was as good.   

Please keep praying for my friend Cindy, my ex sister in law Jacquie, my ex husband Dick and my special sweet daughter in law Barbara.

Dia Dhuit

Mary