I have several things I'd like to write about today, but most can wait til later. But while you're waiting, you should really go over and read A Funny Thing Happened. Don't just read the top entry; if you have time, read from the first post. We all like conversion stories-how did you come to the faith? This is a good one. Here's a sample:
With every page of homework, with every meeting with Father B., I began to see the world around me change.
At our third or perhaps fourth meeting, Father B. greeted me, we prayed, and then before he sat down he walked to the library window. It looked out on a rolling lawn that led on one side to a lake and on another to a path that meandered down to the huge white Church. Near the window, close to the priory, a yellow tarp flapped and lifted in the autumn wind, revealing a stack of newly cut wood. Father B. and the other priests had been busily preparing for the winter.
"Does the world around you seem to look different now?" Father B. asked me, turning back from the window. I was surprised. Had he read my mind? "Yes," I said. "And it's a very uncomfortable feeling." After only a few lessons, I felt as if blinders had been removed from my eyes, allowing me to see the world not from my accustomed secular vantage but from a new place, one that considered God before all other created things.
Oremus pro invicem!
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