Florida Trip

I'm in Florida for the week to spend time with my mom and do a few chores. The trip was long but pretty quick and without any problems. You know when you are going to spend a week with mom that your favorite meal is in the future and here she is on the first day cooking my favorite mom meal. It is the unwritten law of motherhood that you will prepare their favorite food. My wife used to say that went I went home I went from forty to ten in an instant. I don't know about that but the smells and the nostalgia can certainly bring back thoughts and feelings that are anchored in the past.

Last summer I went around the town where I grew up and although many things had changed I still had memories around every corner.

The problem is we often hold onto the worst things as much as we hold onto the best. I have spent most of my life talking to people both young, when I was a teacher, and young and old, as a priest. I know that Christ changed my life and the transformation was sudden and dramatic. Much of the bad I had done and experienced was reframed in that new experience. Those things became lessons instead of obstacles, and they continue in my life filled with opportunity rather than difficulty.

Well after having been taunted by the smells in the air for almost an hour my favorite meal is ready. Um I can taste it already. Welcome home!!!