spirit

Fr. Maxi was the Concilibrant with Fr. Breen today. He spoke the homily. His point was that the holy spirit was present through history. He compared today's reading from the Gospel of John to earlier readings from scripture: Genesis etc. It was a pretty good talk. Fr. Maxi's Ghana-eze accent was charming. He was well spoken and preacherly. But talk of the 'holy spirit' range a little cold and distant despite the fact that the intent of the preaching was the opposite. Oh well. We got on with the day.

Adam is still recovering from what I consider his harrowing experience on Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning at Vandy Childrens Hospital on the cancer ward. He is feeling weak, out of sorts, asocial, and just plain shitty. Martha and I even talked about it earlier in the evening. 'I am worried about Adam', Martha said. 'What do you want me to do about it' I stupidly responded. There is no answer. Adam is feeling down. What the hell are we supposed to do?

Around 730 pm Adam's friend JP, and his friend Ty, showed up, unexpectedly, and asked to play with Adam. My gosh, here it was, the 'holy spirit' coming to visit at my house. Adam may not respond to our encouragements to talk, feel better, join us for dinner, but a couple of 10 year olds showing up was magic. Almost immediately Adam was playing, shooting his nerf gun, having fun, with JP and Ty. JP's dad showed up around 830 to pick him up. JP says he will be back tomorrow because the teachers are having 'inservice' so there is no school. Hopefully the holy spirit will stick around for a day or so.