Circle of Trust

Baby Hands had a fantastic message at his AOVQ at The Mammoth last Thursday…  The point of his message was basically asking each of us if we are being the example of what we want others follow….I had this play out in a negative way this weekend.  At my son’s basketball game, one of the boys on our team got a technical foul for running his mouth.  He then proceeded to escalate things with the referee for which he got a second technical foul and was ejected from the game.  After the game, as a way to teach the boy about good sportsmanship, I told him he needed to apologize to the ref…. As we walked over, his parents came on the court and pulled him away.  They told me that he did nothing wrong and that the ref owed their son an apology…. I was pretty angry about the situation…. not at the boy, but at the parents.  They have shown their son that he does not have to be accountable for his actions.  The example they have shown him will not help their son in the future.

Today I want to re-emphasize Baby Hands’ message…. Are we showing our children how to be good people?  Are we giving them a good model to follow?  Because they are watching what we do, more than what we say.  And if our children grow up to be little shitheads, it is probably because their fathers were big shitheads….  So my message is pretty simple…. DON”T BE A SHITHEAD!

Let’s Pray….

Today we prayed for all those suffering in mind, body or spirit, especially – Ken Dolls sister and her family and the father from Tonka’s neighborhood that died from Covid, we prayed for Box Cutter’s father and grandmother who are both in the hospital with Covid, we prayed for a speedy recovery for Sweet Gherkins, a thankful return to the gloom for Handy Manny and a special intention for my brother Daniel.  We then thanked God for all the blessings in our lives and asked for continued strength to be the people He wants and needs us to be.

We prayed for all of this in His Holy Name…. AMEN!