{"id":351,"date":"2010-10-21T20:20:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T00:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=351"},"modified":"2010-10-21T20:20:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T00:20:42","slug":"knowing-you-are-where-you-are-supposed-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/knowing-you-are-where-you-are-supposed-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing You Are Where You Are Supposed To Be"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last couple of days have been busy days for me; nothing unusual there.\u00a0 In these busy times I have been blessed with some moments of knowing that I was where I was supposed to be.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I said Mass at the Homestead Nursing facility for 18 or 20 residents, a couple of staff, and a couple of parishioners.\u00a0 Now, it is not unusual to see fewer people at daily Mass in the parish.\u00a0 But in the nursing home, sometimes you can wonder if it is worth it.\u00a0 You don’t know if the people\u00a0can hear you or know what is going on.\u00a0 This time, both before and after Mass, I had several of the residents thank me for coming to say Mass.\u00a0 Of course, they can’t get to church themselves but to have several of them genuinely say thank you tells me that was where God wanted me to be.<\/p>\n

This morning I “found the time” to go see a person who has just gone into hospice care.\u00a0 I had a message that she would like to receive the Anointing of the Sick but anytime in the next couple of days would be fine.\u00a0 Today was very busy, but tomorrow is going to be busy too so I found the time to go see her.\u00a0 She was very appreciative that I came and we had a heartfelt conversation.\u00a0 There conversation showed me\u00a0I was where I was supposed to be.<\/p>\n

This afternoon, I went to our parish school to talk with the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders about priests, deacons, and religious.\u00a0 I was given forty or forty-five minutes.\u00a0 I wasn’t sure it wouldn’t take any more than 20-30 minutes.\u00a0 It lasted an hour because they were very interested and asked good questions.\u00a0 That helped me “get into it.”\u00a0 Again, I was where I was supposed to be.<\/p>\n

How do you know when you are where you are supposed to be, especially when it wasn’t where you planned on being?<\/p>\n

Peace,<\/p>\n

Fr. Jeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last couple of days have been busy days for me; nothing unusual there.\u00a0 In these busy times I have been blessed with some moments of knowing that I was where I was supposed to be. Yesterday, I said Mass at the Homestead Nursing facility for 18 or 20 residents, a couple of staff, and …<\/p>\n

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