Casting Our Nets

Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.

I had so many problems in my life, financial, marital, emotional, you name it. No spiritual problems, though, since I hadn’t gone to Mass or prayed for decades. I wasn’t smart enough to think there might be some linkage there.

But people started coming into my life, many of whom are still in it in some form or another more than a dozen years lat...