Letting Go

My oldest daughter (17 ) is leaving on a trip tomorrow by plane to the northeast to go on a retreat and visit friends. She is my left and right hand and it is so hard to snip that apron string. As a parent you vascillate between being so proud of the independence your children show and letting them take off and spread their wings-- to do things on their own without your immediate safety net. She is a smart girl, independent, and wise beyond her years in many ways. Yet she is also young and naive and believes in the best in people. I, am a control-freak. Pray for her and her safety, and for me and my sanity. All will be well.

I just saw this on National Catholic Register.com! any thoughts?
--Priest TV Show Vows Respect— The fall television lineup will include a show about Catholic priests. But it won’t be a tale about corrupt or dysfunctional priests, as some shows in the past have been.
Rather, “Vows” — now in production for the American Movie Channel — is about a priest who is faithful and is in love with the Church. ...Karen Hall, the show’s creator, is an award-winning television writer and novelist“When my agent asked if I was going to pitch an idea to the networks for a new series, I told him my only idea was really insane,” she said... Her agent thought a series about Jesuits in a formation house might be, as the agent put it, “outlandish enough to work.”...“Priests for the most part used to be left alone,” she said. “But now people really wonder what it is like to walk down the street wearing a collar, why men choose to be priests in this day and age, and what the priesthood is about. And in the recent annals of priest screen characters, a man who is faithful to his vows and in love with the Church is something that almost never comes out of religious-cynical Hollywood.”
“The orthodox priest-protagonist is a novelty,” she added. “Everything else has been done: the cool liberal priest, the gay priest, the drug-addicted pastor, priests who are pedophiles or who have lost faith. Networks are interested now in what is real, which seems weird enough to them to be compelling.”
Read the whole thing!http://ncregister.com/site/article/3026

Finally, I have a glass of wine and some time of my own on the computer. Pope's My Middle Name has so far done a much better job of writing on my own blog than I have done. But for those of you who are curious, she happens to be the second sister of "2 Sisters Wineblogging". We are great friends, my sister and I , and I feel so incredibly blessed to have her. We cannot often sit and drink some wine together so this site was created as our time to chat and sip. But I will also utilize this blog to let some of the thoughts and feelings that build up and have nowhere to land come out for air. Some will be deep, some not so much, and probably some will be just a little strange--what can I say-- it's in the genes-eh, Pope? Where to begin? The story by Pope in my comments section was so great and just like my sister to talk to anyone about anything in truth and love. I am more of an observer. One of my observations was one I shared with my fifteen year old son. I took him to Confession at a downtown Church in Cincinnati ( one of those " I can't believe you did that and now you have to go to confession before Mass conversations with my son")While waiting for him in the car across the street from the Church, I saw a young man in his 20's who obviously worked downtown walk up to the Church to go to the noon Mass. I was already impressed that a man of his age would take the time to go to Mass during his lunch hour. About 20 feet away, a homeless man was sitting, with a small basket for money beside him. I watched unobserved as this young man paused for just a moment then got out his wallet and walked over the homeless man and gave him several dollars. There was no one around. A true act of charity. A true example of seeing Christ in someone and being Christ for someone else. I shared that incident with my son when he came back to the car. I told him that I wanted him to be that young man, I expected him to be Christ to others. I also try to remind myself that I need to be as Christ would be as well. What a wonderful world it would be-- God bless!

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