Just to share this quickly, my mom posted this story earlier this morning. I cracked up - Enjoy!
"Once again the twins (age 2) put me in my place today. Calvin comes to work with me, and the girls just dote on him. Sometimes, however, they refer to him as 'she' and sometimes as 'he'. Today, always looking for teachable moments, I asked the girls if Calvin was a boy or a girl. Delia looked horrified and replied, "He's a PUPPY"! :)"
-Marjorie Donovan
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Awake
Lake Logan Episcopal Center
It's almost one in the morning and I'm awake. Awake and alive and, apparently, anxious. I can't stop eating (rest easy, i switched my snacking some hours ago to celery sticks), cleaning, and prepping for the weekend. I'm currently printing directions, important phone numbers, the agenda, and all that personality stuff i had to do for the overnight coming up this Friday. I have to be at Lake Logan by 10am (at least three hours away) and we will be done by 10am Saturday morning. Priests work on Sundays, so Fri/Sat is there weekend :)
As I was prepping, cleaning, eating celery, and printing - I received this parish email from our priest, Rick, at St. Mary's:
Hey friends.
It's been a little wierd with Greta and Beth Lawler gone. I've been running around doing dog and family stuff in addition to work and my annual physical. This Friday and Saturday I'll be with the Commission on Ministry serving as their chaplain as they discern vocation with Anne Clark and a couple of other candidates. This is Anne's first overnight. She'll be interviewed, poked and proded a bit, and prayed with. Then the COM will decide whether she can continue the process. Bill Devereux serves on the Commision as well as Jeanne Finan. So keep Anne in your prayers.
[...]
Keep all of our travelers in your prayers.
Lot's up. As always.
God be praised!
Rick
It's amazing how good it feels to know that there are people out there praying for you and your journey, specifically and generally.
A lot is going to happen in those 24 hours a Lake Logan. I'm anxious about going to a new facility in a new area with new people, but I'm also energized and very much looking forward to this opportunity for spiritual growth and discernment.
Please keep me in your prayers, as well. Love love love
MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
- Thomas Merton, "Thoughts in Solitude"
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
that tight, icky feeling in my chest...
Typically, what I'd do now is go to church and sit for awhile until the whole stressed feeling passes. But Blake is delivering his mom to Kingsport, TN with the car so here I am instead.
Donald quit his volunteer job today. I brought him lunch, as usual, at twelve thirty. He asked me to wait - I sat in a chair outside Shari's office, and the next thing I know, I hear him resigning his position. He asks me to pack up his lunch and call his bus. We then proceed to remove all of his personal belongings from his office while everyone looks on, clueless as the what the heck we were doing and why. I had no idea what was happening but it felt awful. I've actually gotten to know everyone there pretty well. This was abrupt and very uncomfortable. When asked if he would still come by to visit every now and then, Donald's response was "no, probably not. but if you ever want to say hello, you know where I live."
I come to find out that the straw that broke Donald's back was that they put up a table and chairs with a sign that said "wait here until someone comes to assist you" in the hallway, while he was out, without consulting him. There's a bit more to it (what Donald read into the situation) but that was pretty much it. And he quit. So my job has now become more one-on-one patient care. Which is exhausting & I should be paid a heck of a lot more for but, oh, well. We're moving in a couple of months anyway.
On another note, my Jeep needs more work done on the transmission so that sucks. We need a working vehicle and neither one is reliable at this point. We've rented a car to get us to Richmond to pick up the Jeep this Friday b/c Blake's car won't make it.
At some point, when we know where we're going and what our income will be, we can make some major decisions about the cars and (hopefully) we'll get rid of them both and buy one RELIABLE vehicle. But for now, we've just got to keep our heads above the water until some more of this limbo stuff ends.
Limbo sucks, but it's where growth can occur. If you're never in limbo, it means that nothing in your life is changing and that probably sucks more in the long run.
It's amazing how our lives follow the church calendar. I'm living in Holy Saturday, preparing and planning and waiting for the Easter part of life to come back around. Easter will come, and then the cycle will go on again and again. We will celebrate new birth, we will prepare, we will come to a point where we are all "set" and be able to share our gospels, we will give and take, we will fast and do without, and we will experience all kinds of deaths, we will wait in Holy Saturday's limbo, and we will celebrate the rejuvenation, energy, and joy of our Easters.
love love love
Donald quit his volunteer job today. I brought him lunch, as usual, at twelve thirty. He asked me to wait - I sat in a chair outside Shari's office, and the next thing I know, I hear him resigning his position. He asks me to pack up his lunch and call his bus. We then proceed to remove all of his personal belongings from his office while everyone looks on, clueless as the what the heck we were doing and why. I had no idea what was happening but it felt awful. I've actually gotten to know everyone there pretty well. This was abrupt and very uncomfortable. When asked if he would still come by to visit every now and then, Donald's response was "no, probably not. but if you ever want to say hello, you know where I live."
I come to find out that the straw that broke Donald's back was that they put up a table and chairs with a sign that said "wait here until someone comes to assist you" in the hallway, while he was out, without consulting him. There's a bit more to it (what Donald read into the situation) but that was pretty much it. And he quit. So my job has now become more one-on-one patient care. Which is exhausting & I should be paid a heck of a lot more for but, oh, well. We're moving in a couple of months anyway.
On another note, my Jeep needs more work done on the transmission so that sucks. We need a working vehicle and neither one is reliable at this point. We've rented a car to get us to Richmond to pick up the Jeep this Friday b/c Blake's car won't make it.
At some point, when we know where we're going and what our income will be, we can make some major decisions about the cars and (hopefully) we'll get rid of them both and buy one RELIABLE vehicle. But for now, we've just got to keep our heads above the water until some more of this limbo stuff ends.
Limbo sucks, but it's where growth can occur. If you're never in limbo, it means that nothing in your life is changing and that probably sucks more in the long run.
It's amazing how our lives follow the church calendar. I'm living in Holy Saturday, preparing and planning and waiting for the Easter part of life to come back around. Easter will come, and then the cycle will go on again and again. We will celebrate new birth, we will prepare, we will come to a point where we are all "set" and be able to share our gospels, we will give and take, we will fast and do without, and we will experience all kinds of deaths, we will wait in Holy Saturday's limbo, and we will celebrate the rejuvenation, energy, and joy of our Easters.
love love love
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
life's little accomplishments
Salem c/o 2008 Alumnae Notes... done
Bachelorette Party #1... check
Girl's Mountain Weekend... exquisite and done
Bachelorette Party #2... check
Wedding 1 of 3 this season... wonderful and over
Spiritual autobiography and other paperwork for discernment... done
Blake's school... done
clean house... done
dishes... done
Quality Time with my hubby... check
next phase of my quilt... done
first loaf fresh from our new breadmaker... done and smelling absolutely fantastic
Spring is always glorious but man, is it busy! It is almost all wonderful stuff that I am excited about and wouldn't give up for anything in the world, I just have to be careful to take care of myself and our relationship in the little spaces between.
For the next few weeks... The in-laws will be in town this weekend for Blake's graduation, our apartment is being shown again (lease fell through for the person we thought would get it after us), this weekend I'll be heading to Chapel Hill for an amazing bridal shower (so excited!!!) and next weekend Blake and I will head up to Richmond, VA to visit Mikey and get my Jeep. The following weekend, I'll head to the mountains for the Discernment Overnight with the Commission on Ministry and the Bishop. Blake's on the job hunt and researching for his thesis (which he'll finish this summer). I'm starting to get Donald ready for the transition when I leave this fall and boxing up the house. We're thinking about a yard sale or something just before we move to get rid of some of our excess material possesions (aka, crap).
The last two nights in a row, i slept 12 and 11 hours, respectively. I think I'm ready for round two!
Bachelorette Party #1... check
Girl's Mountain Weekend... exquisite and done
Bachelorette Party #2... check
Wedding 1 of 3 this season... wonderful and over
Spiritual autobiography and other paperwork for discernment... done
Blake's school... done
clean house... done
dishes... done
Quality Time with my hubby... check
next phase of my quilt... done
first loaf fresh from our new breadmaker... done and smelling absolutely fantastic
Spring is always glorious but man, is it busy! It is almost all wonderful stuff that I am excited about and wouldn't give up for anything in the world, I just have to be careful to take care of myself and our relationship in the little spaces between.
For the next few weeks... The in-laws will be in town this weekend for Blake's graduation, our apartment is being shown again (lease fell through for the person we thought would get it after us), this weekend I'll be heading to Chapel Hill for an amazing bridal shower (so excited!!!) and next weekend Blake and I will head up to Richmond, VA to visit Mikey and get my Jeep. The following weekend, I'll head to the mountains for the Discernment Overnight with the Commission on Ministry and the Bishop. Blake's on the job hunt and researching for his thesis (which he'll finish this summer). I'm starting to get Donald ready for the transition when I leave this fall and boxing up the house. We're thinking about a yard sale or something just before we move to get rid of some of our excess material possesions (aka, crap).
The last two nights in a row, i slept 12 and 11 hours, respectively. I think I'm ready for round two!
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