Kid Confessions.

I got to sing at our school's Advent reconciliation service today. It's a lovely gig really. I am blessed to be able to serenade people, specifically children, as all their sins are being forgiven. I watch how freaked out they are before confession and I witness how light on their feet they become after confession. Priests seem to be at their best while hearing confessions and they radiate tenderness which is refreshing to experience.

One lyric that continues to frolic in my soul: "You dwell in the songs that we are singing rising to the Heavens, rising to Your heart."

Capture our hearts today, Lord, so that we might sing and dance, and confess our love for you, now and always. 

Waiting is good!

I think that the essence of value is something that is "worth" the wait. 

For example, when Claire and Malia count the days until the Justin Bieber concert or how Tiffany already has her One Direction concert tickets for next August!

We measure the worth of a ride at Disneyland based on the wait time and we measure our love of that ride based on our willingness to stand in line for the full wait time.

We've been waiting for almost 20 years for Notre Dame to get back into the National Championship game and that long long wait is what makes this season so magical. I imagine the Bama folks don't have the same sense of wonder and awe because they just experienced the glory of it all last year. The wait makes it better somehow.

Waiting makes us appreciate what is to come. Waiting grows our patience and the fruit of patience is peace. When I surrender to waiting, I am at peace. When I surrender to the 60 minute wait time for Space Mountain, I am free to enjoy the time spent in anticipation for something exhilarating and wonderful. Anticipation heightens our senses and allows us to soak it all in.

Even though the commercial world think it's Christmas now (I mean I heard Christmas music at the mall the week BEFORE Thanksgiving), we Catholics, know that this time is sacred because we get to WAIT. In all the waiting, our hope increases, our peace engages, and our knowledge that Christ is definitely worth the wait allows us to sleep with sugar plums dancing and beautiful music serenading! Amen

It's better to give than to receive...

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