Formation Notes 7

[french_rhubarb]

Response to Formation Notes 7

Reflect prayerfully on
these quotations from our tradition. What do they say to you about St Francis
and prayer?

Read again the section
on Prayer in the Rule of the Third Order and the stories at the beginning of
this study.  Re-read what you wrote in
preparation for this study.

In light of the above,
re-write your

Comments

[nun_sense]

I realized that it has been quite some time since I heard from you.....or got a notice that you had written in your Livejournal. Is everything OK? I miss you.

God bless!!

[french_rhubarb]

I am touched that you not only noticed my absence, but sought me. Thank you.

The reason for my prolonged absence, interestingly, was that I had a housemate. It is interesting that that took me from live journal, but I guess I was limited in some ways - when I was home, there was someone there who wanted to talk with me, watch movies with me, have dinner with me - and I am home so little as it is. I have been making notes of things I want to share on LJ, and I bookmarked your entries from your trip to Thailand (I still don't know all that happened there!) and so those pages have been constantly open on my firefox for so long, reminding me that I am yet to read them.

Things have definitely shifted. I am now so grateful to have my space back, whereas before I found the lonliness so oppressive. So, yes, I am ok. :) Busy, but better than ever.

I am glad to be back though. I missed you too. I am thrilled that you were around this evening when I posted. And it is so wonderful to find out what is happening for you, dear nun_sense. <3

[nun_sense]

I am glad you are back. I have missed you. What kind of work do you do that has you counting engines on planes in movies?

[french_rhubarb]

I'm a crossword compiler and proofreader. It requires a lot of fact-checking.

[french_rhubarb]

And some facts are jolly hard to verify. That one took me a good half hour to find.

[nun_sense]

Well.....you gotta like words to do that, I would imagine. I love to play Scrabble, but have never liked doing crossword puzzles. I seem never to know the answers.

[french_rhubarb]

I always lose at Scrabble - I have too much fun finding words and don't pay enough attention to what would get me the best score, but I never mind - I enjoy it anyway. And I love words and language and grammar and all of that (although I am aware that I don't always proofread my livejournal entries, but after 8 hours of proofreading, I think I can stand a few errors in my blogging), but I think I would prefer stringing the words into meaningful sentences, to be honest, rather than having them smattered over a grid. But it is a wonderful job. I just...crave something else. But that's what Taize is for! :D

[nun_sense]

Yes.....it will come soon!

[french_rhubarb]

I just sent an email to the embassy about visas (finally). Here's hoping I can swing it for a year!

[nun_sense]

If it is your heart's desire, Spirit will help you to do it.