8 of us at morning prayer by the end of the service.
FCS-Ian had printed out the February+March daily lectionary \o/ Ash Wednesday has a multiplicity of options, so I flipped through The Inclusive Bible while we sat quietly before service and decided on ( Read more... )

Traversing my moderately- shoveled/plowed side street this morning, it felt like the fallen snow was really light -- that easy to shovel kind, which surprised me given how wet it was last night.  (Though the more plowed/shoveled portions of my walk, it was more slabs of hardpacked snow underneath where the plows had come ( Read more... )

"The number you have dialed is not in service."  I was talking to Gillian last night, and she commented that once when her phone was near the end of its life it was giving a "not accepting incoming calls" message, even though she could call out fine.  This lends credence to that ( Read more... )

I walked in to the church (I had checked my email, so I knew it was in the chapel, but the exterior chapel door was actually locked) and Tiffany saw me and said, "You decided to do Ash Wednesday with us this year." I, slightly confused, said, "Didn't I do Ash Wednesday service here last year?" and she said I might well have, but that this year I ( Read more... )

"Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, ( Read more... )

I was reading a post by a friend last night, and she mentioned the (now familiar to me) concept that the commandment to "Love your neighbor as yourself" requires that you do in fact love yourself, and how this self-love continues to be a challenge for her.  [Edit: Er, I seem to have neglected to actually write up the bit about my reaction to that ( Read more... )