Monthly Archives: January 2005

Oh, man! I do NOT know what to make of this! For background, our church has entered into another perennial transition. As part of this transition, our 31st Anniversary service was preached by the new Executive Director of the UFMCC. Her sermon was excellent! Scott and I picked up this person at the airport, thenContinue reading “John the Baptist and other Visionaries”

This’ll be relatively short. I think. But I just have to whine. I wanted to talk to a really good friend about this today, but she’s just not in a place to hear me, to even listen. She asserts she understands, but I don’t think she does… she doesn’t because she hasn’t let me sayContinue reading “I feel like whining, so bear with me… or not.”

Death. Having just written about the passing of my beloved Travis, I can’t get my mind off of death. Well, okay, I can, but I don’t want to. So there. And so, fellow pilgrim, you’ve really gotten into me today. And so, once again, I write in response to you… and to one you wroteContinue reading “On Death”

I’m weird. I have to face that little fact. I’m weird. I believe in that which we all believe, yet spend our lives denying. I just read this blog, by my fellow pilgrim. He emailed me earlier inviting me to check out his writing… and this isn’t what he focused me towards, but this caughtContinue reading “Yeah, OK, call me weird”

Oh, the bane of laziness! After emailing in my previous post, I did a little searching around. Why, I wondered, is my Privacy Service preventing me from logging in to my own blog to post? And why can’t I play games? It seems at some point I blocked blogger.com from setting cookies on my computer!Continue reading “Addendum to excuses”

In November, 2004, my home computer crashed. I had noticed it slowing down significantly and I knew I have a fairly robust computer. Then, my privacy software notified me that it suspected there was at least one spyware app on it, so I downloaded a spyware detector. Sure enough, there was not one, not two,Continue reading “Excuses, excuses, excuses…”

Hey, Pilgrim! I’m sorry it’s taken me two days to get back to you. We were at church Tuesday until nearly midnight, then yesterday my boss was hanging over my shoulder all day. Last night, it was back to church for a meeting with our outgoing pastor, then a study group on “Grace”. I wasContinue reading “Response to a fellow Pilgrim”

Withdrawn (I) 59.46% Outgoing (E) 40.54%Imaginative (N) 60% Realistic (S) 40%Emotional (F) 67.65% Intellectual (T) 32.35%Improvised (P) 51.35% Organized (J) 48.65% Your type is: INFP You are an Idealist, possible professions include – information-graphics designer, college professor, researcher, legal mediator, social worker, holistic health practitioner, occupational therapist, diversity manager, human resource development specialist, employment developmentContinue reading “Well, I didn’t have the time, but I did it ANYWAY!”

I see my comments on children inspired a new friend to address the same topic. Cool! He’s a great guy, from what I’ve read of him. As I follow his life (his blog is a little more informative of that than mine is of my life) I am moved, often nearly to tears, by hisContinue reading “A response of sorts”

Jeremy told a bit of his story about his first seminary experiences. That has inspired me to reflect on my own, especially as those experiences led, ultimately, to my own estrangement from my Catholic Heritage. In some ways, however, this won’t be as detailed as Jer’s. I grew up in a strongly Catholic home. MyContinue reading “My life in seminary”