Good morning my brothers and sisters in Christ!! Peace and Love🌻

What a wonderful blessing I received this morning at Mass! 🌻 😊I left my sneakers at home! 🤭

I’m grateful to you, Jesus, for this wonderful morning!

Over the past two weeks I have been faced with a difficult situation with a volunteer organization. I had my reservations given some of the changes in the organization but believe this is still the best character and skill development program for youth, as it was for my brothers and me growing up. We advertised that two of the Immaculate Conception School (ICS) fathers (myself and another awesome dad) would lead the Lion Den (what the program is called for grade K) and nine of the boys in his class families were interested in joining. Wow! We showed up at the first Pack night to meet a mom of a boy who was not in his class announce she was the leader, had already set a schedule, and that we would be meeting with the 1st grade group called the Tiger Den for the year. This was a surprise but we were open to working with her. We scheduled a call to meet and long story short it did not go well. This person had issues with "duty to God" in the scout oath, a scout being "reverent" in the scout law, and even pointed out that it was excluding of atheists and people of other belief systems to say God in the pledge of allegiance and that in no way would there be prayer at the den meetings as that excludes people and makes them uncomfortable. Praying on this, I was willing to meet with Pack leadership as our request to them was allow us to run our schools group separately from the other person and still be part of the Pack. Sacrificing an evening with my kids, I agreed to meet the Cubmaster at a local coffee shop, let me say this, it was an ambush, not a meeting. 4 people showed up, not one like I was told, I was lectured about Martin Luther, how right he was, and the bad things priests & Catholics did, that we could not hold a Scout Sunday at our Parish and had to attend the Lutheran Scout Sunday since they were the host of this cub scout pack, I could go on but wont (this is already probably too long of a story). Keeping my mouth shut was one of the most challenging things I have had to do in recent memory. My only response to any of their lecturing was how is it that we could not say a prayer, even a non denominational one to start and end a den meeting if we would be asked to sit through a Lutheran service? I couldn't hold back a little laugh as I asked that. I thanked them all for their volunteering and commitment to the program, smiled, shook hands, and kindly let them know I had to get home to make lunches for tomorrow.