Lead Me To The Cross

I had a tough time getting up this morning.  I hit the snooze 5 times, which means I slept 50 minutes longer than I should have.  Somehow I still got up and made it to school with 2 minutes to run up that stuuuupid hill to LA5, but oh well I made it!  Class ended early too and so I headed out to play with Trixie in the kitchen.  That little rabbit has grown on me and I actually get down on the floor to play with it.  I talk to it like it's my friend and my mom yells at it when it does something bad, so I'm really feeling like Trixie is a another kid in the family!

I napped for most of the afternoon, but did so keeping in mind I had to play for the Filipino community's novena today at Saint Callistus, since Carmen needed a guitarist for the prayer service and mass.  I got up at 4 after a 2 hour nap and dressed up extra nice before driving over there.  The music director was showing me the music and in my head I was like wow is this medieval music?!  HAHA well it wasn't that bad but seriously old school.  I enjoyed playing with the pianist, who was also makeshift and Vietnamese, so we could talk about how weird everything was.  For example, the priest was from the Spanish community and did the mass in English, but he seemed so sleepy he would start speaking Spanish on accident before realizing what was going on.  We assumed it was because he was tired and then found out later he was sleeping and forgot he was supposed to do mass in the first place!  Poor guy, I know how it feels when you just want to sleep.  Later on the pianist's wife recognized me as the guitarist at the 5:30 youth mass and was telling me how much she loved watching youth participating in mass.  I loved that =]  and I pray for the youth to step it up and own our faith!

I met Jeremy at the pool hall hoping to own him in a second beating but we evened out today.  I did get a golden break on the ten ball and overall played consistently, which I can't complain about.  I came home, had chicken and rice before listening to some music.  The song "Lead Me To The Cross" came on and wow did all my emotions start going, out of nowhere too!  I thought of the cross on Divine Word's mountain, and how my spiritual experience opened the door to all the service I have given to the Catholic church.  I only hope I can lead others to Christ the way that retreat led me.  I'm really glad I have a chance to help the youth grow closer to God, especially through the Saint Callistus program.  Well, I'm gonna let Brooke Fraser sing me to sleep, good night world =]

-Kev

P.S.  I'm really happy =]  Not sure why...