Day: August 4, 2013

Fitting the Pieces

Dear E,

I wish I could tell you that life is like the puzzle you struggled with today, that there are a few missing parts and with a little trial and error, you can figure out where they fit. Life is a puzzle, but it’s more like the puzzle “Dalmatains,” with a mass of similarly patterened pieces that seem almost impossibly random.

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You’ll struggle at times to make the slightest bit of progress, only to find yourself wondering if perhaps you didn’t force a piece here or there after all. “Maybe they don’t fit quite that snuggly,” you’ll say to yourself as you plod off to bed one night.

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But rest assured, there is a bigger picture, it is accessible (if not difficult), and it is beautiful.

Your Dad

Leaving

One thing I dislike about the Catholic church: you get a really good priest in your parish, one who gives thought-provoking homilies and is a fantastic confessor, and then the diocese transfers him…