My Mission

I will live in service to others.
I will do my fair share.
I will help others more burdened than myself.
I will live in peace for myself and in example for others.
I will follow a path of growth.
I will help others on their paths of growth.
I will love and live in partnership with Mary.
I will love and provide Jeremiah with the means to reach his success.
I will love and honor my parents.
I will love and nurture my relationships with others.
I will express to God my thanks for all I have and all I am.

Why?

Why do I have a feeling of not wanting to be reconciled with those who rub me the wrong way?
(Thought from Lloyd Aiken's July 11, 2010 homily at Sacred Heart of Glyndon, Glyndon, Maryland)

Sense of Heart

The thing I feel most in my heart is a deep sense that we are all of the same family, all of one creation. But, my sense of need and survival and protection creates divisive barriers that blind me from realizing that acting for the individual desires that undermine others actually erode my own spirit.

Amen to you oh, God.

Deep down I think I am not as good as person as other people. This is not precisely what I feel, but it's the closest words I can find right now.