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John goes from looking at nature to thinking about the creator of such a beautiful world and how awesome He must be. I go from looking at creation and thinking it and I are close to the same level to let's all praise God together. I'm impressed by his detachment from the physical world so he can be completely attached only to God. I can understand how he gets there but I question whether I ever could. Gratitude for the gifts, yes, but to have that kind of detachment from them would take a miracle from God. It's completely beyond me.

I have been playing the organ/piano for my parish as soon as I got my hands worked up well enough to try it. The reason I play is because the parish needed an organist although I'm really a pianist so I am basically doing it for the parish. Sometimes I also do it to praise God, sometimes I do it when I'm terrified of messing up (although that is disappearing as I get more experience and am less self-conscious about what I'm doing). I know if I were playing completely with my focus on Jesus it would go so smoothly. Get out of the way and let God is true in this as in so many things. Let Him use me and everything will work together for good because I do love Him in my feeble human way. But there you are.

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Yes it is doing good. Confession is my favorite sacrament because I always feel like I've just taken a spiritual shower and am all clean again. I once had a spiritual director who always started with how's your prayer life so I think about that first. Then I think about what sins are most serious of the ones I commit and those are the ones I confess. I am really sad about having moved because Notre Dame has confession every weekday and they always stay until everyone's done with multiple priests and one line so you never know who you are going to get but it always seems to be the right priest for the moment.

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