My Patootie Fell Off!

   It did . . . it did . . .
   Yesterday, I walked across the parking lot from the office to my house. My patootie froze solid and broke off right before I got to the front door. That, along with several fingers, toes, and other body parts.
   It is COLD out there!!!
   I was thinking about that, though, as I was preparing to write my blog entry for today. I was thinking, "Okay, Mike, what do you want to write? Is it going to be about a saint? About the parish? About the school? Is it going to be praising someone or something? Griping about someone or something? Hmmmm."
   Then it hit me.
   My toes -- the ones that are left, that haven't frozen and fallen off yet -- were tingling and I thought, "Ah, yes. I'll write about the weather!"
   And why, you may ask?
   Because it strikes me that I and a lot of people that I know have been complaining about the weather the past couple of days. It's too cold for us.
   In a few months, it will be too hot for us.
   Then it will be too rainy.
   Then, too dry.
   It always seems to be too something, doesn't it?
   Isn't that what human nature is all about?
   It looks for something about which to complain.
   Maybe because, in doing so, we feel better about ourselves because we make other people miserable as well or at least know that other people are just as miserable as we are.
   That is the secret weapon of a Christian. No, not making people miserable. A Christian wants to share his or her faith so that other people can feel good about themselves and so the Christian may know that other people believe as well.
   What would you rather do today, complain or be happy?
   I want to go for happy.
   So I think I will try to spread some faith today instead of some misery!
   I hope you can do the same...