Living At Wit's End

My forty days/forty bags is going along VERY slow, but I am still determined to reach my goal by Easter Sunday! In the mean time I want to post something that I have wanted to post since January.   Four of my kids are involved in our church.   My two oldest however are very involved.   They are both peer ministers, and are actively involved in the youth ministry program.   In addition they serve the community in other ways such as cantoring, sing in the choir, alter serve, and as an Eucharistic minister.   In January our Youth Minister puts on a high school retreat, this is a mandatory retreat for the confirmation candidates, but is open to all high school students. Both of my kids volunteered to give witness talks this past January.   The theme of the retreat was Faith Book (a play on social media).   Oldest talk was on “discernment” and The Organized Child’s topic was “about me” (focusing on her life with our without God).   Oldest talk...

What if life had a rewind button?   What if you could go back and do it all again?   Would you do it differently than you did?   Would you change some things and leave others the same?   Have you thought about how your life would be different if you had made different choices?   If you could go back and have someone sit you down and impart one or several pieces of wisdom, would you have them do it?   If so what would you want them to tell you about? Think about these questions; think how you would answer them.   You are in a very unique situation, no matter what age you are; you probably have regrets as well as successes.   Share your regrets, your successes and your wisdom with a teen, even if they don’t seem to be interested or they act as if they know it all already, they want to hear what you have to say!   They desperately want to know that you care.   Take some time to write them a letter, take them to lunch, give them your ea...