It is 9:15 pm and I just got into my hotel room after a tiring but gratifying day at work. Right now "tired" is the relevant word in that sentence and as such I ask your forgiveness for not sharing any inspirational thoughts tonite . Not to imply that I have actually had many of them anyway. But I still wish to add this to the list of all the things I need to be forgiven for. I can't remember exactly how it went when you were done confessing your sins to the priest but it was something like, "For these and all of the sins committed in my whole life I am heartily sorry". My older sisters would probably remember better than me since I assume they went to confession almost daily to get absolution for all the injustices they enacted upon me!!
....sometime I find the simplest quotes to be the most remarkable...
"To understand everything is to forgive everything"---Buddha
love
peter
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My most vivid memory about confession is when father(and I use the title loosely)Hawkins died in the confessional, even though I was just a teenager, I remember thinking that it was a just place for him to die and I was glad. I knew that I did not need to ask forgiveness for that either!
A drunk staggers into a Catholic Church, enters a confessional booth, sits down, but says nothing.
The Priest coughs a few times to get his attention, but the drunk continues to sit there.
Finally, the Priest pounds three times on the wall.
The drunk mumbles, "Ain't no use knockin, there's no paper on this side either."
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