Reflections on Sunday's readings: Andrew was baptized!

My 2nd child and son was baptized on Sunday. What a joyous occasion!

What strikes me most about the baptism and the reception was my toast. I'm now 2 for 2 at getting choked up before I've even begun to speak thereby losing everything I intended to say and just letting my feelings at the moment dictate the toast.

The feeling that wells up inside me is an odd combination of pride of my wonderful son and humility in the small role I've played in making him wonderful. To quote from the movie Braveheart: "God makes men what they are." By God's will, Andrew is now a formal member of the Catholic Church. I feel blessed that God has brought my wife, Andrew and myself to this crossroad and am humbled that he is asking me of all people, a horendous sinner, to take the monumentally important task of raising Andrew in the faith.

May God give me the strength to do His will!

kencraw on 05.25.05 @ 08:38 AM PST [link] [No Comments ]

Scripture Quote of the Week

"God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him might not perish
but might have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world might be saved through him."

-John 3:16-17 from Sunday's Gospel reading

kencraw on 05.25.05 @ 08:15 AM PST [link] [No Comments ]

Sorry for my absence

I've taken a new job inside of HP starting last week and the move as well as coming up to speed in a new group combined with the rush they have to get a product out the door has thoroughly sucked down my time (I've been working 10-12 hour days).

As a result, blogging will be light for the next week or so.

kencraw on 05.25.05 @ 08:13 AM PST [link] [No Comments ]