Prioritizing 101

Saturday was an interesting day. I was taught a gentle lesson in priorities by Our Lord.

As some of you have inferred from previous entries in this web log, I am a Carmelite Secular. A council meeting was scheduled for Saturday which I begged off attending as I had a wedding to play for. I showed up in plenty of time. But as it turned out I was double booked. The bride’s mother had hired more than one piper. (She must have been even more pre-occupied than most mother’s-of-the-bride, as she hired two limousines for the bridal couple also.) In the event, I wasn’t needed at all. I got a portion of the fee for my time and trouble. But, of course, not what I was expecting.

I take it as the Lord’s kindly way of indicating that I need to pay more attention to the Order’s business. In case I needed any more help in getting the point, the church where the wedding was held was Our Lady of Mount Carmel.