Comments on Decompressing Faith: Ch-ch-changes

kend away was excellent - just what I needed.These...

2009-03-28T12:33:00.000-07:00

kend away was excellent - just what I needed.

These couple of weeks have been hectic. I have a dance competition on Saturday so we've been preparing for that, but I've managed to get a night off tonight. I need it! I'm going for a mountain bike ride tomorrow. I'll be taking it easy - don't want to risk injury before the comp.

Thanks Susan!

2009-03-24T09:39:00.000-07:00

Thanks Susan!

Great to have an update. Thanks Erin for sharing i...

2009-03-24T04:44:00.000-07:00

Great to have an update. Thanks Erin for sharing it.

Barry. I completely understand the aversion to blo...

2009-03-23T22:04:00.000-07:00

Barry. I completely understand the aversion to blogging. For me it seems to be not wanting to rehash the same old same old...I get tired of talking about things, sometimes.

How was your weekend away? I hope it recharged you a little. As usual, I'm sorry Sam isn't doing better. I wish I could pull an answer out of my hat for you on that, but you know I'll pray, and mean it. And the business with your job has to be a huge burden as well. Please keep me (us) posted on that. Sigh. Sometimes there is so much we have to cope with at once. I don't get it.

Hi Hap! I have been woefully disconnected in some ...

2009-03-23T21:58:00.000-07:00

Hi Hap! I have been woefully disconnected in some ways these last two months or so, too. I hope all is going well with Torch, I'm so excited for you to have that.

I WISH I was getting out into spring...but alas, we have been freezing and rainy still. Hopefully it will come soon!

Oh Sara! I'm exited for you! I can remember when I...

2009-03-23T21:56:00.000-07:00

Oh Sara! I'm exited for you! I can remember when I finally had those 4-5 hours to myself each week. It will do wonders for your brain power and your sense of self.

Barbara, hon. I so wish some peace for you. You ha...

2009-03-23T21:54:00.000-07:00

Barbara, hon. I so wish some peace for you. You have been through the wringer lately, and it seems so unfair that it can't be resolved in some simple way.

Maybe you should look for an SD? Find someone who is spiritually multi-faceted, who won't try to fence you in theologically...?

Sue, dear, you can always speak the truth about yo...

2009-03-23T21:51:00.000-07:00

Sue, dear, you can always speak the truth about your life to me. I know you are likely speaking of F2F people, but just so you know...

It's really hard to begin to protect my personal emotional and spiritual space, when for so long I haven't and now it's seems somewhat defensive and, well, bitchy to some people. I hate it and am still working it out. Good thing Rosalie reads my blog, so she can know what we're going to talk about on Friday! :)

I hear ya, Jeff. It's funny...even though my spiri...

2009-03-23T21:49:00.000-07:00

I hear ya, Jeff. It's funny...even though my spiritual life might feel whole-er, my life circumstances are a bit stormy, too. Sometimes I wonder if inner peace is the product of outer turmoil? Or something given to us in order that we might endure?

Hey Jarred! Miss you too. So the fundraiser went w...

2009-03-23T21:46:00.000-07:00

Hey Jarred! Miss you too.

So the fundraiser went well? I'm so glad. I know that was taking a lot of your time.

A coven? Well, personally I think it might be high time to start something for yourself, even if it is a little overwhelming. You will have to tell me more about that soon.

What's going on with me? Well, Sam's still very il...

2009-03-23T17:50:00.000-07:00

What's going on with me? Well, Sam's still very ill and that's been taking up a lot of my time. I should finally find out next week (either Thursday or Friday) whether or not I will have a job after the summer. In the meantime half of me is wanting to blog about what's going on, while the other half feels a kind of aversion to blogging. God? Well, he's there... I think.

Oh, Erin - reading your post makes me so glad, jus...

2009-03-23T13:16:00.000-07:00

Oh, Erin - reading your post makes me so glad, just hearing about the healing going on in your life. I have been woefully short on time to comment much this winter, but I've been reading along and I was just wondering the other day how you were doing... and now I know. :)

I do want you to know that you've already been "something helpful" to people - but I know the Erin you are becoming will even better at it. ;)

love you much,
Hap

oh - me. lol. crazy busy with the church plant. CRAZY. but it's good. :) and i'm SO glad it's spring - finally getting out of the house again - yay!

what's going on with me? my youngest is starting ...

2009-03-23T11:43:00.000-07:00

what's going on with me? my youngest is starting to attend preschool two mornings a week this spring. I've got the house to myself--for a reliable four hours a week!--in a way that I haven't . . .well, since the six months immediately after we got married and I was frantically job hunting and not finding anything. I'm trying to set aside the time to write. To work on a long term project or two that have been long neglected. I'm hoping that some concentrated time each week will allow me to keep track of where I am well enough that I'm not constantly playing "now where was I?"

Great to hear what's going on with you, learning a...

2009-03-23T11:22:00.000-07:00

Great to hear what's going on with you, learning and growing! I would love to have someone like Rosalie to talk to...but I guess that's why I blog :) I have to get it out somehow.

What's going on with me? Unfortunately the usual.

Unfortunately I can relate to a great deal of what...

2009-03-23T07:10:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately I can relate to a great deal of what you speak of.

That minimising your pain thing - I find I'm doing it without being aware that I've slipped back again. I don't speak my truth because I worry about whether it will upset someone else. Sigh. It's really annoying.

BUT it is encouraging to know that you are on the same journey even though it is bloody uncomfortable. And that whole feeling like a bitch thing sucks, doesn't it? Sitting with the "feeling like a bitch but doing it anyway" is eww like sitting on a fence paling :)

Erin, good to hear about the ongoing process of he...

2009-03-23T06:21:00.000-07:00

Erin, good to hear about the ongoing process of healing in your life. Being a broken person in the process of recovery myself, I can relate.

In answer to your question ("What's new with you?")...spring is more like a lion than a lamb with me. More turbulence around me and a sense of uncertainty in circumstances, making it necessary to lean ever more upon the invisible God to keep from succumbing to the visible turbulence. If that makes sense. :) Kind of like Oklahoma in the spring, actually.

I'm still quite hopeful. This isn't a bad place to be--just not a very comfortable one.

Sounds like there's a lot of good stuff going on i...

2009-03-23T06:14:00.000-07:00

Sounds like there's a lot of good stuff going on in your life, even if it's uncomfortable.

My life is insane right now. We just held the benefit fundraiser for the dance company yesterday. It's over, so I get to relax finally. It turned out quite well, though. So I'm happy about that.

Work is crazy right now and I'm trying to deal with the chaos. And speaking of chaos, a friend and I are talking about working together to start a coven. I really have to do something about these massochistic tendencies of mine. ;)

I've missed talking with you. I hope we can touch base soon.