So this is my random journal entry from choir tour. I inevitably only make one, usually because one thing really inspires me and I need to get it down. This time it was visiting the oldest continually worshiping congregation in the UMC, St. George's in the Old City in Philadelphia. The pastor was giving us a tour, and when we got to the sanctuary ( Read more... )

On my job ( Read more... )

Dear Man With Yuppie Glasses Who Lives on My Street ( Read more... )

I know you all haven't heard much from me lately; my thoughts have been more brooding than I've admitted to folks recently, including my LJ readers. Then this is an excellent time for a year-in-review post!

2009 Resolutions:

1. Return to my gym habits.
Status: kept, mostly in the second half of the year. My body feels much better than when I wrote ( Read more... )

OK, I know I've been terrible about posting this semester. Quick recap: I'm meeting my goals for the semester. I'm not behind yet, and it's almost finals.; I've been working ahead even. Also, I've worked out regularly, I've been eating well (our meal schedule did the trick!), my body feels good, and the house has been reasonably clean all semester ( Read more... )

Well, it's almost a month into the school year and already my life is too crazy to post. In short, a snapshot of my semester...

Classes: Feminist/ Womanist Theologies, Early Christian Women, Greek I, Evangelism in Contemporary Cultures

Extra-Curriculars: CAUSE Justice (president), MTS Club (Social Chair), Shalom (interfaith dialogue group), Sacred ( Read more... )

 Today was the official first day of my last year of school. Now is the time to reflect on summer, starting with my stated goals.

1. Learn to play the acoustic guitar = didn't do. ever. oh well.
2. Read books. FOR FUN. = very yes. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was A-mazing.
3. Preach regularly at Cambridge Welcoming = yes and no. Preach regularly, ( Read more... )

On this day when I celebrate a quarter-century of being alive, yet again I turn my eyes behind me to see where I've been the last year. Just reviewing the years event's causes my pulse to quicken, and I become anxious. As I enter another school year (likely my last), I am afraid that I will fall back into the patterns of last year that contributed ( Read more... )

So my husband is an only child, and his parents are much better off than mine. He can get them to buy him anything, even if it's not his birthday or Christmas. This weekend when we were back in the Midwest for my grandfather's memorial service, he convinced them to buy him an iPhone. I'm kind of upset about it. I have been of the persuasion that ( Read more... )

This is responding to a prompt from the UMC Young Clergy blog. I begin this in hope that folks who read it will have an easier time than I did. I was 14 when I first hear the call to ministry, and responded for the first time at age 16. At first I depended on the United Methodist adults around me to help me figure everything out.

What do you wish ( Read more... )