Expanding further on the theme of reaffirming my baptismal vows on May 20, and that not actually being an act that would make me not a Catholic, I figured out something else interesting this week: I may not ever have actually stopped being an Episcopalian. We discussed confirmation in the inquirer's class on Sunday, and NG told us that when you are ( Read more... )

Crazy meds can mess with your dreams. My crazy meds seem to have made my dreams more vivid, or at least made me remember more details of them. I've always had pretty vivid dreams, but not often dreams that seemed to relate to anything specific that I was going through. That's why I have a "dreams" tag on my LJ; I would write down dreams that seemed ( Read more... )

I've been pondering grace a lot lately. I'm not really sure I know exactly what that is. As a theological concept, it seems tougher to grasp than, say, faith, hope, or charity. Grace. Hm ( Read more... )

October 20, 2011 ( Read more... )

I went to bed and read a chapter of Finding Home: Stories of Roman Catholics Entering the Episcopal Church before turning the lights out. As I settled down on my pillow, I thought about how God and Jesus are always saying not to be afraid, and I thought, "what would do if I were not afraid?" I think I would go ahead and join up with the Piskies. ( Read more... )

Last night, I had a very vivid, very long, very emotional dream. The setting was the UWF campus, or some approximation of it invented by my mind. I’ve had a number of dreams in this setting before. In last night’s dream, there were many, many people around; I want to say there was some kind of summer activity camp going on, maybe similar to Girl ( Read more... )

I keep having dreams about the Ghetto Mansion. This started in the last few months, since we sold it, and I've had tons of these dreams. Usually, I'm going back to the Ghetto Mansion, and I know that's where I am in the dream, but it always looks different in a variety of ways. But it's always really run down and full of junk, even worse than when ( Read more... )

I had a weird and vivid dream two nights ago. Actually, it was yesterday morning; I'd woken up around 2:30 a.m. with terrible heartburn and couldn't get back to sleep until after 4, and that's when I had the dream.

In the dream, I was with my parish priest, Father D, who I wrote to a while back. We were standing outside at the church, and there ( Read more... )

Last night, I dreamed that I went to the hospital to have the baby. One of my work friends, Nadia, was my nurse, and someone else was with me (not sure who). Nadia got me set up in my hospital room and then left and said she'd be back later. Then I realized that the baby was transverse, which meant I wouldn't be able to deliver. I was really upset ( Read more... )

I had a very vivid dream last night that I went into labor and gave birth at my house before having time to go to the hospital. This happened recently to someone on a mothering message board where I'm a member; guess her story left quite an impression on me. In my dream, the birth was virtually painless, in large part because the baby was so small ( Read more... )