(a) How many enemies exist within our own hearts?
(b) What does a tree do to give us shade?
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When my bishop informed me that my next assignment would be the cluster of congregations that includes my home parish, I was both excited and apprehensive. Returning to Ellinwood, Kan., My hometown, wWhen my bishop informed me that my next assignment would be the cluster of congregations that includes my home parish, I was both excited and apprehensive. Returning to Ellinwood, Kan., my hometown, was setting up another of those violent showdowns, for which the West is famous. I would once again face my old nemesis, the schoolyard bully, Jerry Wirtz.
When we were classmates in parochial school, Jerry and I did a lot of tousling on playground grass. It ended inevitably, often rather quickly, with my shoulders being pinned to the ground by Jerry and my being forced to say, “I yield.”