The Presentation of the Lord!

God is so wonderful. I love the Catholic Church because we do so many cool things- like candle blessings, and liturgical colors. Todays liturgical color is white and, of course, it snowed. My friend likes to refer to it as "liturgical snow". I always think of when St. Therese entered Carmel and she was hoping it would snow because she loves so snow much- and it really didn't look like it would, but God made it snow for her! God pays so much attention to us- more than we pay attention to him! At mass this morning the priest talked about how crazy it was that Simeon and Anna recognized God because they always see babies coming through the Temple- they payed attention! May we all pay so much attention to God that we recognize him and his little gifts when someone takes the last bread stick in front of us or when he makes it snow for us!

Calvin and Hobbes

Benjamin has taken to reading Calvin and Hobbes out loud all the time. Given that he's doing it all the time he's gotten quite good at emphasizing the right words and making all the right sounds to go with the comics. My Dad decided to film several of Benjamin's readings- here's a taste.