Yesterday, we popped into a bookstore so my husband could buy George Weigel's biography on Pope John Paul II. We recent converts don't know near enough about the Pope as we should. The young clerk who helped my husband find it lifted up the heavy book and noted, "Wow...he must have done a lot."

Seeds sown for another Catholic convert? Please, Lord, let it be so!

I've toyed with the idea of reading it myself, but I only seem to get short snatches of reading time now -- I'll never finish before the baby arrives. I'll have to settle for the "Cliff's Notes" version at the dinner table as my husband recounts it to me.

--Sparki