Internal clock, why must you be so precise, on such a schedule?
Hadn't you heard? Today is a holiday. No school. Ta-da!
Get up or you won't fall asleep tonight...
Better drink your coffee before 9 a.m. or you'll be up past your bedtime...
No napping or your whole week will be thrown off...
Such were a few of your messages today - messages, which, thank you very much, I heard loud and clear.
On the flipside, I do suppose I can be grateful to be forced to keep such a schedule. After all, I managed to go for a quick run at the gym, watch episode 3 of Downton Abbey, read over half of an Advanced Reader copy of a soon-to-be-released children's book, packed tomorrow's lunch, and got a few things done for school. (I still have a retreat meeting to go to, but that's another story.)
Oh, and I may have just realized that the latest episode of Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! had Sutton Foster as the guest. Guess what I'm listening to in just a few minutes...
But in all seriousness, internal clock or not, I am grateful for the day off from school. This weekend was much needed.
"I have no idea where I am going; I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself...But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing. And I know that if I do this, you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always..." -Thomas Merton
I have come to fall in love with teaching in Catholic schools. What are YOU in love with?...
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