We wrapped up the youth contact meetings yesterday.  Our theme this year was an in-service on collaborating with families, especially partnering with parents.   At the end of the day, we asked our folks to identify a sound-bite that they would desire that the parents of their parishes might be able to say about their family’s relationship with the parish’s youth ministry.

In concluding, I lifted my own sound-bite from Jack Nicholson in the movie As Good As It Gets.  How phenomenally transformational would it be if a parent could look to their parish and say. . .

You make me want to be a better parent.

Meanwhile, my own incredible family took a few moments for their own close-up yesterday.