From time to time I see my life as a juggling act...  

Trying to BALANCE and PRIORITIZE events and situations and even my philosophy of life...  

Remember, I have responsibilities as a FATHER and a HUSBAND and a BUSINESS OWNER and a PRACTICING CATHOLIC...among others...  

When all is right and these responsibilities are all in harmony, all is right with the world and there is peace...!!!  

That doesn't happen very frequently, but the challenge is to be at peace even when these priorities are encroaching on one another and the lines between them become blurred...!!! A common occurrence through life's journey...!!!  

So how do I handle these situations...since I've never mastered the art of JUGGLING...???  

Let me give you an analogy...!  

As a PRACTICING CATHOLIC, I'm responsible to set and lead a good example...this comes under the heading of EVANGELIZATION...SPREADING THE GOOD NEWS...but there are many things within my CHURCH (the universal one, not the local one to which I belong) which bother me...case in point...I see many liberal, left leaning factions operating as 'Catholic' which, to me, seem to present a confusing example, a somewhat marginal life of christian values, and a poor source of evangelization at best, even downright apostasy at times...  

I have a responsibility to correct my brethren when I see such anti Christian activity, yet, as a Catholic I know and accept that the Bishops are the appointed and official teachers of doctrine and proper behavior, and so, in a spirit of brotherhood, fraternity, and charity (LOVE), I defer to that authority...  

After all, one of the FOUR MARKS of the Church is UNITY...remember from our catechism the four marks of the Church are ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC or UNIVERSAL, and APOSTOLIC...and so I always defer to FAITH...and it has never let me down...  

Oh, don't misunderstand, there are plenty of 'Catholics' who have let me down, and there will be many in the future who will disappoint me and the Church to which they claim to belong...  

But that's God's problem, not mine...He promised He would remain with the Church until the end of time...That's where we get our ONENESS, not from the members...  

It's HIS CHURCH...He is the head...I am merely a member...a proud one, but nevertheless a weak one, YET STILL PRACTICING TO GET IT RIGHT...!!!  

And that's how I handle the JUGGLING...I trust in God, my hope...!!!