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  Thursday – 3 rd Week of Easter Reading – Acts 8:26-40 Distractions! On the Road to Gaza I decided to water my garden. As I turn on the hose, I look over at my car and decide my car needs washing.   As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mailbox earlier. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.   I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first. But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my checkbook off the table and see that there is only one check left.   My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the study to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking. I'm going to look for my checks, but first I ne...
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  Wednesday 3 rd Week of Easter Gospel – John 6:35-40 Lost and Found Papal Mass, Edmonton 2022 My watch stopped working a couple of weeks ago.   Most of you know the watch I’m talking about.   It’s a gold watch gifted to my Dad back in 1972 by Texaco for 25 years of faithful service.   Engraved on the back with his name and date, it has been a family possession for over 50 years, passed on to me after Dad passed away in 2004.   Since then, I have made sure to keep it clean and running, no matter the cost. So I took it in for cleaning and a new battery.   Simple, right?   Not so much!   A new battery didn’t make any difference.   So it has been in the shop these 2 weeks as they try to get it running.   I got the news on Monday that they just couldn’t get it to run.   So I stopped in the shop to retrieve it and try somewhere else.   No luck – the owner wasn’t there.   So I went back yesterday to try again.   Th...
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  Tuesday - Third Week of Easter Gospel – John 6:30-35 Knead to Know Cooking Class   A couple years ago, I gathered together some of my altar servers for a cooking class!   They learned not only my recipe for zucchini chocolate chip muffins but how to make them from scratch!   And, YES, they took home their finished products, or at least the muffins they didn’t wolf down as soon as they came out of the oven!   It was a fun, wonderful (and messy) experience!   Who knew that cracking eggs and measuring out flour could be so ‘untidy’.   But it brought home the lesson that, in order to get those yummy muffins, it takes time, effort and a heaping cup of patience. And it reminded me not only of their loyal service but those long months of Covid when they missed their Mass ministry.   So from time to time during the pandemic, I stayed in touch with them by dropping off goodie bags filled with chocolate chip cookies, zucchini chocolate muffins a...
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