But I don't want to go to work...
Maybe it's the stormy weather. Or the fact that I want to stay home and play with all the books we found at the book sale.

I'm having one of those days when I dread all the paper pushing. I know it is essential. And serving the mission of the Church. But I had another moment on Friday when someone mentioned the extreme dislike most people have for the Bouggereau Pieta Mass cards. (would link to pic here but have a different computer and cannot even find a way to access the website...) I went back to my desk where I looked at the copy I keep on my desk and marvelled at all the sorrow and power so dynamically distilled into one painting. Then my mind jumped from that moment when Mary held the body of her beloved Son in her arms one last time to now. And wondered how it has turned into so much paper pushing. (Perish the thought of what happened in the days before computers and photocopies and everything was done more slowly and with the carbons...)
That's why I like my Bouggereau Pieta. It helps for those, "That's what it all about, Charlie Brown," moments.