What do you do with a heavy heart? When you feel burdened down and sad and don’t really know why you’re feeling the way you’re feeling. I’m a very analytical thinker and like to have everything understood and compartmentalized. I don’t understand why I’m feeling the way I’m feeling today. I feel incredibly sad. I don’t know why. This really bugs me. I’m using a large part of my brain […] Read More
I’ve been thinking about conflict and the church. We’re messed up. People want to avoid conflict, so instead of talking to the person they have an issue with, they complain about it to other people, who take up their cause and spread it to others. They think they have avoided conflict, but in reality, they’ve created a whole lot of it, by getting a bunch of other people riled up. […] Read More
Feel like writing something, but don’t know what to write. Generally, I’m feeling good. Really busy day at work. We’re down by 3 people in the office for this week. It’s been a little crazy. I’m really really looking forward to when all the snow will melt. It will happen… someday. I’m believing that. I love my car (Toyota Echo), but it sucks to drive in snow. Got stuck for […] Read More
A lady in my church passed away yesterday. She had been sick for a long time. Our church had been praying for healing, but it didn’t happen the way we had hoped. I feel sad. There are so many things I wish I understood about how God works. I wish it wasn’t such a struggle to ‘know’ how we are to approach life… and death. I receive daily meditations from […] Read More
I was listening to the song “Beautiful” by Ginny Owens and thinking about how so often it is difficult for us to see ourselves as beautiful. We see all the things we don’t like about ourselves and wonder how God could ever see us as beautiful. Perhaps the things we see in ourselves that we don’t like were never meant to be a part of who we are. Maybe that’s […] Read More
Things have been going really well lately. I am totally enjoying 2005! My children are doing well. My oldest has had difficulties, especially at school, at times in the past, but this year he has been doing awesome. I’m so proud of him. My new job is great! I love the atmosphere (each morning I come to work and walk into a garden – not too bad!), and the people […] Read More
I received a newsletter concerning the same-sex marriage legislation that is being proposed for Canada. The newsletter was comparing Canada to Australia (a country which has legislated against same-sex marriages), and stressing that if same-sex marriage legislation is passed, it will have a profound detrimental impact on our society. While I do not deny this, the impression I received when reading this newsletter was that same-sex marriage legislation is the […] Read More
I started a new job last Thursday. It’s going to be good, although it’s been very busy. I’ll post more about it later.
Children are their parents’ guests. They come into the space that has been created for them, stay for a while – fifteen, twenty, or twenty-five years – and leave again to create their own space. Although parents speak about “our son” and “our daughter,” their children are not their property. In many ways children are strangers. Parents have to come to know them, discover their strengths and their weaknesses, and […] Read More
I was going to post a rant on how much I hated the movie “A.I” (Artificial Intelligence) by Steven Spielberg (I finished watching it tonight), but then something happened to my internet when I tried to post and I lost what I wrote. So, forget it. I’m going to bed.