Today's quote hits like a steel door in an empty hallway.
Some people and situations simply aren’t going to answer. No matter how loud, how patient, or how hopeful you are. Life teaches that the hard way. You can waste years pounding on doors that are never going to open, or you can turn around and walk toward the ones that will.
Today is WagStrong Day.
John Wagner was in the class ahead of me at Dear Old Cathedral. He died a few years back. He actually died a couple times. On one of those miraculous returns from eternity, he told us how he met the Holy Spirit. The Ghost that completes the Trinity sent him back with a message: Forgive, ask for forgiveness, and tell Wag Nation to do the same.
True Story!
Wags passed the lecture down from heaven and touched his family and friends with one last bit of wisdom. Occasionally when I mouth off about a group of people that I hate, I hear, "Shep, get over it! Don't you want to hang for eternity and drink beer?'
That is Wags way of telling me to clean my heart if I want to go to heaven someday.
So, today is the perfect day to forgive and forget.
Yesterday's cold blast wasn't a big deal. It just prepares us early for short pants weather this February in Chicagoland.
Have a beer for Wags today and if you see a kid walk in the bar wearing a Red Sox hat, buy him a cold one!
