Set high goals for your kids and remind them that this Vale of Tears, and how it mis-measures success and failure, is of little import in comparison to their ultimate destiny. Always remember that goals can seem lost, but that apparent defeats often lead, in the arc of a life, to repentance, amendment and to Christ .
Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I think this is the St. Mark Catholic Church in nearby Huntersville, about 40 miles from where we live.
Reading real* stories of saints to kids is a good antidote to the predominant lukewarmness out there. Reading up on the saints is good for the rest of us too. Actually reading what they wrote is best of all, but the world and the devil and my own lukewarmness often interfere with such beneficial labors.
* As opposed to St Francis Saves Our Common Home, etc
Too bad my 16 year old won’t listen to this. Trying harder with my 12 year old who becomes a teenager on December 6.
Could bring up the Saint of the day to your wife or vice versa.
Sometimes the conversations that are most influential are the ones that we are merely present for. At least one such conversation figures into my own conversion story.
Lives of the saints are now in comic book form or now called sequential art. Good way to get teens to read about saints. (which reminds me if onlly my mother hadn’t thrown away my large Classic Comic collection…..)