Today, I had the joy of watching two friends be ordained as pastors, plus the joy of seeing other friends who were ordained earlier in the summer. What was especially wonderful to me was that at certain points, we were the same goofy group who laughed together so much last year at the seminary. At [...]
Archive for August, 2008
To ordination…
Posted in Hooray!, tagged calling, Holy Spirit, ordination, process on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sorry, it just sucks
Posted in Grumpiness, tagged air conditioning, grace, noble, U2 on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today, I got to drive my lovely VW all over town. Lots going on today – lots of places to be, etc. etc.
That was not the issue. The issue is that we had to drive MY car (hubby’s was in the shop) and my car currently has NO A.C.!!! And in central Texas, in August [...]
New design!
Posted in Hooray!, tagged change, internship on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why, yes, I did take the picture at the top of the page! You are looking at one side of Enders Island, CT, which is a teensy, tiny island south of Mystic. The whole island is owned by a retreat center and I was blessed to go on a women in ministry retreat there last [...]
Getting ready to go!
Posted in Hooray!, tagged books, Christian liturgy, comfort, internship, Max, motivation on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today, motivation struck in a great burst of WA-PA! and I began to sort books, papers, etc. to take with me to Killeen for internship. I’ve been putting this off…not sure why. We can spend time analyzing that a la Freud some other time.
Anyway, back to the motivation…
I launched first into gathering the books I [...]
Christian perspective
Posted in Misc..., tagged Christian perspective, faith, grief, Hebrews 11, Psalm 16, trust on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Grief can bring copious amounts of anger out of people and I realized long ago that grief and anger are very deeply intertwined. I realized after posting yesterday that some of my posts can get to sounding quite bitter and I think yesterday’s fit very well into that category. Those of you who know me [...]
Can someone call me after 9pm with GOOD news?
Posted in Ho Hum, tagged cancer, friends, love, news on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The phone rang tonight at 9:36pm. I was startled by the phone, not because we were even close to bedtime, but because usually when the phone rings after 9pm it is not because the person is calling with good news. I guess I’m cynical – I guess I learned this hardened attitude when Mom was [...]
