a confession

Ok, I have a confession to make.  I want, desperately even, to be able to comment intelligently on current events;  the horrible state of the country, the depressing line up of potential leaders that we are staring down, the latest controversy of priests that are a wee too self centered to do the vocation they chose well, vaccines that are wrecking havoc and what is happening to our youth.

I would love to blog on those things.  I look with envy on others blogs, sounding so intelligent and “with it”.  I am nearly jealous.  I really am.

But.  I am a mama.  I have to realize that sometimes my vocation pulls me away from those things, and that may not be such a bad thing, really.  I don’t have the occasion to sin, gossiping about a bad priest, as much as I could have.  I don’t have to deal with the incredible sense of despair at the path our country is careening toward. 

It’s not that I don’t see it.  It’s not that I don’t discuss it even.  Outside of this blog.  It’s that I don’t HAVE to if I don’t want to.  This blog is my one place of peace, to sift through what is happening in my family, with my children, with my vocation.  It is my solace, my peace and quiet.  If, sometimes, a snippet or two of the controversial stuffs sneaks in, I’m okay with that. 

I’m also okay if it doesn’t.

 

Peace!