Titles come last (with Blaise Pascal being honored today)

This blog would flow a whole lot better if I were to write it all somewhere else and then edit and post following that work. And I was tempted to begin doing that this morning. 


But then, I remembered that this blog isn't about perfection. It is about imperfection. It is about sharing from my heart with others as life happens. Consequently, here I am with my random ramblings once again.


Expect that things may not flow here, ever, like a news report. Life is like that. Think of it this way: in the morning there may be certain appointments, goals, priorities and so forth that are to be tackled that day. 


During the attempting, so many other things enter the scene of the life stage. By the end of the day, what the title of the slice of life you intended to do and the day that you in fact actually did live may be entirely different than the way you envisioned it. So it makes more sense in keeping with the day to day experiences, thoughts, emotions, ponderings, and leadings and walks with God, to put the title on after the blog entry has been composed. 


(Photo credit, by the way, with thanks to karen: http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/


Somewhere in the Bible it says that we may make plans, but it is the Lord who leads. It is not a statement about not having free will nor one of predestination. It means that whether we know it or not, there is a mystical union going on. We never walk alone. And God wants us involved in the process of things. It's a team thing. Me and God. You and God. Sometimes, you and me and God. Or you and me and God and others whom we know along with those that we don't, living and dead. So brilliant is the mind of God! 

Speaking of brilliant minds, here's a little something special I'm doing for Blaise Pascal. I wrote him into an article I published here:  http://tinyurl.com/Lourdes-and-Sacraments. There is a diagram of his famous wager posted here that seems to have been created by Ross McKegney http://rmlog.blogspot.com/.  You can also find it on google images. Then, I'm also linking to this awesome Youtube video about him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTHN_eQaEaI. Try to overlook the foul language, for the video, I believe, speaks to intelligent nominal Catholics quite well. 


Some take offense to my referring to them as nominal Catholics. Please don't stop at being offended, better to then introspect and do what you can to prove to yourself that you aren't one. You'll be glad you did.