What have we done on our summer vacation?

I just sat down at my computer to check my email and I found this little message waiting to be posted on the blog:

Hello????
Is anyone out there???
Is anyone listening???
Does anyone care anymore????
If so Please a little chatter

Thank you.

I promptly posted the comment under 'Don't get emotional'.

That comment did evoke a chuckle and a grin from myself. What have 'we' been doing lately? Why haven't 'we' been blistering the airwaves and inviting others to spar???

Well, for everything there is a season? A time to Post, and a time to refrain from Posting???!!!
Have all the evils in the Toledo Diocese been exorcised??? Has tranquility returned to St. Peter's, St. Mary's and St. Joe's???

I will admit that I was looking forward to a summer of rest and reflection. I anticipated that the sudden 'changing of the guard' would allow me to reassess my involvement in the parish. My recent anonymous poster reminded me of the following story written byBruce Wilkenson from his book,"Beyond Jabez":

"One day, six or seven of us remained after class to talk to one of our favorite professors. During the conversation, my friend standing in front of me said, "You know, Dr. Hendericks, when I first came to this seminary, my life was full of temptations and struggles. But now after studying Greek, Hebrew, and theology, my life is smooth as glass."

And I remember thinking, "Wow! I'd give my right arm to have a life like that. I slowly shrank back a few steps. Maybe it's better if I don't bother him with any questions.

But Dr. Hendricks suddenly had a look of alarm. "Young man," he said to my friend, "that's the worst thing you could possibly have said to me. Before you came here, at least you were in the battle. But now you've shown me that the enemy doesn't even think you're worth harassing."

That story has stayed worth me for years. I admit that I am guilty of sometimes thinking that if I don't write and talk about what's going on in our parishes, my life will be as 'smooth as glass'?