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As I've mentioned previously, Saturday is orientation day for my initial diaconate-related classes. Super excited to get started this fall!
I've been having recurring nightmares about a stressful project at my new job. A couple of nights ago, I snapped awake from one of those, and was somehow laying on my face-- when I rolled over, I discovered my neck could barely support my head! I went into work that day but had a debilitating headache. My chiropractor tried to get the muscle to release, but no dice. Thankfully, the at-home exercises he taught me to do have been gradually improving the situation.
Last night I didn't fall asleep until 2:00-- when my alarm went off at 5:30, it was immediately obvious I had to call in sick to work. Yesterday, my nervous system was in emergency mode at work the entire day, and then I went straight from work to church, and didn't get home until 21:00. This in turn caused me to miss my hour of prayer time, hence I was rendered unable to sleep.
I suffer immensely during the work day, but then God fills me up again in the evenings, provided I don't have late-evening commitments and can keep to my routine. The good part is that I led the Stations of the Cross again, and felt very comfortable this time. Out of the three primary deacon functions-- Word, Sacrament, and Charity-- it's that middle one where I feel furthest along in formation.
The one where I feel furthest behind is the first-- Word: I need to devote much more time to scripture, but feel like I lack the time and energy to sufficiently do so, during the weekdays at least. As for the third-- Charity-- I feel like God's grace has been rapidly molding me over the past six months or so, thanks to my Spiritual Director, all of my great friends, and my church family.
What else? Been enjoying the Lazio season, in spite of itself. Hopefully there is light at the end of the tunnel in terms of finally getting rid of Claudio Lotito. If I owned the club, I would immediately go to Maurizio Sarri and ask him, "How long do you want to stay?", and then write that number on a contract for him; second, I would ask "What players do you want? I want you driving the transfer market."
I don't know what to make of Fabiani. In some ways he seems like a "mini-Lotito", an arrogant loudmouth. But he's been very quiet through all of the back-and-forth, which very definitely leads me to believe that he's not some kind of Lotito acolyte.
What's more, I actually do like a lot of individual Fabiani-acquired components in this team, players like Rovella, Dele-Bashiru, Noslin, Isaksen, Taylor, Provstgaard, and so forth. Every time Nuno Tavares receives the ball, I get the same "what's going to happen" excited sensations I used to get with athletes like Randy Moss. And Motta looks like he has a huge ceiling in goal-- what a steal!
I love the youth movement, and wonder if-- should Lotito finally be driven out-- new ownership could keep Fabiani on, and have him work closely with Sarri? Really all we need are a couple of creative sparks in the side: there is an interesting skeleton of a team already present, and which has huge growth potential due to the low ages of many of the pieces.
When I have been playing video games, it's been "Grandia" on the Saturn-- what a game! One of my favorite JRPGs of all time, I think.
Many blessings. I'll leave you with La Lazio Mia!
I've been having recurring nightmares about a stressful project at my new job. A couple of nights ago, I snapped awake from one of those, and was somehow laying on my face-- when I rolled over, I discovered my neck could barely support my head! I went into work that day but had a debilitating headache. My chiropractor tried to get the muscle to release, but no dice. Thankfully, the at-home exercises he taught me to do have been gradually improving the situation.
Last night I didn't fall asleep until 2:00-- when my alarm went off at 5:30, it was immediately obvious I had to call in sick to work. Yesterday, my nervous system was in emergency mode at work the entire day, and then I went straight from work to church, and didn't get home until 21:00. This in turn caused me to miss my hour of prayer time, hence I was rendered unable to sleep.
I suffer immensely during the work day, but then God fills me up again in the evenings, provided I don't have late-evening commitments and can keep to my routine. The good part is that I led the Stations of the Cross again, and felt very comfortable this time. Out of the three primary deacon functions-- Word, Sacrament, and Charity-- it's that middle one where I feel furthest along in formation.
The one where I feel furthest behind is the first-- Word: I need to devote much more time to scripture, but feel like I lack the time and energy to sufficiently do so, during the weekdays at least. As for the third-- Charity-- I feel like God's grace has been rapidly molding me over the past six months or so, thanks to my Spiritual Director, all of my great friends, and my church family.
What else? Been enjoying the Lazio season, in spite of itself. Hopefully there is light at the end of the tunnel in terms of finally getting rid of Claudio Lotito. If I owned the club, I would immediately go to Maurizio Sarri and ask him, "How long do you want to stay?", and then write that number on a contract for him; second, I would ask "What players do you want? I want you driving the transfer market."
I don't know what to make of Fabiani. In some ways he seems like a "mini-Lotito", an arrogant loudmouth. But he's been very quiet through all of the back-and-forth, which very definitely leads me to believe that he's not some kind of Lotito acolyte.
What's more, I actually do like a lot of individual Fabiani-acquired components in this team, players like Rovella, Dele-Bashiru, Noslin, Isaksen, Taylor, Provstgaard, and so forth. Every time Nuno Tavares receives the ball, I get the same "what's going to happen" excited sensations I used to get with athletes like Randy Moss. And Motta looks like he has a huge ceiling in goal-- what a steal!
I love the youth movement, and wonder if-- should Lotito finally be driven out-- new ownership could keep Fabiani on, and have him work closely with Sarri? Really all we need are a couple of creative sparks in the side: there is an interesting skeleton of a team already present, and which has huge growth potential due to the low ages of many of the pieces.
When I have been playing video games, it's been "Grandia" on the Saturn-- what a game! One of my favorite JRPGs of all time, I think.
Many blessings. I'll leave you with La Lazio Mia!