Starting the week off...

Matthew and I went to our first RCIA meeting at St. Gerard's last night.
It was a large group, and Matthew and I are excited to serve as sponsors again.
I am sponsoring a girl who is also 28. She has 3 children and one on the way!
I am thrilled to get to know her.
Matthew is sponsoring a guy who we met over 3 years ago!
When we were in our Inquiry phase of getting to know Catholicism in 2005, this man was in our inquiry class, a small group of only 4 of us. Well, when it came time for RCIA we never saw him again, and we came into the church Easter 2006.
Last night we get there and I recognized him and turns out he is ready to do RCIA and Matthew will sponsor him!
What a small, wonderful world.

Today is our orientation with the Georgia Dept. of Human Resources to introduce us to fostering and adoption.
We are nervous, but excited.
The bad thing is we have this lovely orientation, but have to wait over a month to begin the required parenting classes! Ugh.

Please pray for my friend and her husband who I have just learned that they lost their unborn child to miscarriage.
I offer this prayer which I found on the EWTN prayer and devotional page:


My Lord, the baby is dead!

Why, my Lord—dare I ask why? It will not hear the whisper of the wind or see the beauty of its parents’ face—it will not see the beauty of Your creation or the flame of a sunrise. Why, my Lord?

“Why, My child—do you ask ‘why’? Well, I will tell you why.

You see, the child lives. Instead of the wind he hears the sound of angels singing before My throne. Instead of the beauty that passes he sees everlasting Beauty—he sees My face. He was created and lived a short time so the image of his parents imprinted on his face may stand before Me as their personal intercessor. He knows secrets of heaven unknown to men on earth. He laughs with a special joy that only the innocent possess. My ways are not the ways of man. I create for My Kingdom and each creature fills a place in that Kingdom that could not be filled by another. He was created for My joy and his parents’ merits. He has never seen pain or sin. He has never felt hunger or pain. I breathed a soul into a seed, made it grow and called it forth.”

I am humbled before you, my Lord, for questioning Your wisdom, goodness, and love. I speak as a fool—forgive me. I acknowledge Your sovereign rights over life and death. I thank You for the life that began for so short a time to enjoy so long an Eternity. -- Mother M. Angelica