Monthly Archives: February 2012
Plotting it all out . . .
I’ve struggled to start a post in which I lay out all that we’ve gone through in this past year and all that we have planned for the next. This is my fourth attempt, I think, because I’m just not … Continue reading
Filed under Gospel living
because I said I would . . .
I started some other post today, but it just didn’t go anywhere. So then I thought about taking Sundays off from my Lenten obligation observance. Because, you know, Lent doesn’t include Sundays. Because Sundays are the Lord’s Day. The day … Continue reading
Filed under Lent, theologizing
Nothing to say . . .
So hard to believe . . . Give me a minute . . . You know that problem will resolve . . . Some might claim, if you have nothing to say, then say nothing at all. Some might be … Continue reading
Filed under grieving, theologizing
Snow Day!
Snow days are exciting. But they throw a wrench into my routine. Of course, I barely have a routine, and what little routine I have is really just a couple of weeks old, so you’d think I could deal with … Continue reading
Filed under Family Life
I don’t know why I ever make plans . . .
That can be the theme of my Lenten reflections, if my Lenten reflections take the direction I plan them to take. But I don’t know why I ever make plans, because, for example, here it is the first day of … Continue reading
Filed under Lent, theologizing
Lent again . . .
I’ll be honest. I kind of have an ambivalent relationship with the liturgical calendar. On the one hand, I like the rhythm it adds to the year, and I find value in our telling and retelling and telling again the … Continue reading
Filed under Lent, theologizing
You’ll Always Have the Poor Among You . . .
Do you know I’ve heard that said as if it were a promise? that I’ve heard people building their entire philosophy of giving over that verse? “Jesus said we’d never solve the problem of poverty.” “I mean, there’s only so … Continue reading
Filed under Gospel living, theologizing
stuck in the middle . . .
My theological head resides in this in-between space. My friends run the full gamut of the theological spectrum. I mean, they are all over the place. And I see this no more glaringly than (where else?) Facebook. I have, I … Continue reading
Filed under theologizing
The morning after . . .
This is actually my second attempt at a post today. I accidentally canceled, and thereby deleted, my last post. Whoops. It’s OK. It was no real loss. I talked about how my kids are cute and my husband is wonderful. … Continue reading
Filed under homekeeping, Ministry of Reality
