Love is a gift.  You can't make people like you.  You can earn respect, though.  You can also provide appropriate training.  Kicked off Lent with Ash Wednesday service at neighborhood parish.  I haven't seen much of my fifth grader lately before he wakes me from my pre-work nap.  On my way out the door, he wasn't impressed to be reminded that he was born on a Mardi Gras some years ago.  We will go through the Lent readings together.  #spiritualbirthday