“It is far better to do a few things well than to start many good works and leave them half-done.”

– St. Francis de Sales

Yesterday, I heard a beautiful conference on how training a child is like building a cathedral. This picture of Notre Dame de La Garde in Marseilles, France, makes me think of that conference. A child's soul (whether it's our student, grandchild, godchild, nephew, niece, or son or daughter) is like this beautiful church - a sacred place, a special place, that takes/took years and years to complete. A lifetime, in fact. Many cathedrals took decades to build. But imagine how sad it would have been if there had been hundreds of them all over Europe that weren't completed because people started good works and left them half-done. Instead, let us "do a few things well"...as well as we can, as long as we can, and trust that God will take it from there.