Last Tuesday night I was at a visioning session [and yes, I would like a less ableist term for that] for a group I've been involved with for much of this year, and I repeatedly said that social justice isn't where my passion is. And just about every time I said it, I felt a little twinge like I was lying -- because fat pol and disability pol and ( Read more... )

CWM's Holy Saturday service last night and Easter sunrise this morning were both fairly unstructured. Which didn't bother me that much as I wasn't feeling a deep need for "real" church services, but I was thinking at Easter sunrise this morning that having a more structured liturgy can help me sink into the service, can give me something to hold ( Read more... )

Before service tonight, Keith joked about the impending liturgical season of Halloween.  I said I would recuse myself from Rest and Bread for that season ;)
He suggested candy corn for Communion and I said I'd never been a big fan of candy corn -- but if the Communion bread were a big slab of chocolate, I would be into that.  Keith [wow, I ( Read more... )

Dreams this morning included Jenny (my brother's fiancee) having a trans sibling.  She kept saying "he" and then she said something that made me think the sibling had been born "he" and so I said, "Oh, SHE's trans," and Jenny was v. confused, and I kept insistently asking, "What gender was your sibling assigned at birth?" (knowing that I could just ( Read more... )

Who's really lazy and hadn't input the individual contributions to the CWM financial spreadsheet since June?  Yeah.

I got my donation statement from CHPC a week ago, and I was like, "That much?  Really?"  Because I feel like I really don't give that much there.

After doing the CWM individual tallies, I found that I'd misplaced my tax docs.  So ( Read more... )

Thursday lectionary for the week before Transfiguration Sunday (descriptions from my RCL book):
Deuteronomy 9:1-5 (God's oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob)
Acts 3:11-16 (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob's God glorifies Jesus ( Read more... )

Friday night's post-dinner session started with icebreakers, and as Betsy was explaining I kept interrupting to ask questions, and Laura Ruth said, "Come sit by me," and I kind of laughed, but she indicated like no she really meant it, so I scooched across the room and curled up next to her ( Read more... )

Before CHPC service started, Karl asked if anyone wanted to be the reader -- Jeff was supposed to but was away.  I gladly volunteered ( Read more... )

Lorraine and Heidi asked me about my/CWM's discomfort with atonement theology. My best friend and my mother sent me emails with follow-up thoughts. I've been thinking about this a lot. (And in looking back at that comment thread, this post still doesn't respond to a lot of what Heidi and Lorraine asked ( Read more... )

I am REALLY enjoying this cooler weather.  I actually want to move around again.  I feel much more like I can THINK again.  And, yanno, function.  (I'm also recovering my emotional resources -- as evidenced by the fact that I'm beginning to actually fret about Terry a little ( Read more... )