“Shame” is not a concept I spend much time thinking about. It’s not something I was raised with (quite the opposite, really), and is not an emotion that has much hold on me. The closest I’ve come though, was in the 6th grade. I was not a “neat” child – which is to say, I […]
My reading this morning can be distilled down to one lovely, simple sentiment that resonates powerfully to me – FAITH is God within you. I have held this in my mind as I’ve set about my day, coming back to it whenever I recalled the reading and mulling it over: Faith is God within me; […]
So, I “came out” today as a Christian. That is, to The-World-as-defined-by-FaceBook… My faith has become a big part of my life and who I am now, and I decided it was time to put it out there in the open – at least to friends I know well but don’t see or speak with […]
I learned the songs, “Rise and Shine”, and “The Johnny Appleseed Song” (“The Lord is Good to Me”), when I was very young and I went through a period of singing them rather ceaselessly while running up and down the beach in front of our house. “Rise and Shine” may have been from summer camp […]
I’m excited about Lent. Bizarre I know, but there you have it – I actually am. We first encountered All Souls in the middle of that season last year, and were observers through much of it… this year, I have been watching it approach and giving real thought to my own journey. I met with […]
It seemed a good idea at the time… So here we are, (well alright, here I am), posting shiny thoughts and seeing where they go. Having no experience as a blogger (ooh, can I begin a sentence that way? Bad geek! At least I didn’t start an entire paragraph that way), I of course decided, […]