 Even after our sons were born and were baptized in the Catholic Church and they went through their religious education, received their first communion, I stuck to my guns and I did not convert. So the Lord had put all these signs right in front of me, the mystery, the power, the joy of receiving the Eucharist, and it was like I had blinders on. Julie would call it stubbornness, but I'll let you be the judge on that. But then something funny happened.