Peace

Sometimes we don't know why life offers us what it does or why we make the choices that we do... But I don't believe that it is mere impulse or choice--- Sometimes the path set before us, I believe, God leads us on... And I won't explain this theologically here or try to describe in many logical ways or words here... I think it is just something we know... and if I could describe it in any way, it would be with one word: peace.

I am grateful

I am grateful for the one that I love, who reminds me that forgiveness is real and also that I can truly be myself! I am living into this grace.

A Prayer

Inevitable. Baby-steps. Wondering. Imagining: All leading towards a fear of regret? God, how can the choices in our lives fill us with a sense of life and wonder, so that we can walk in peace? How can we hold each other during our choice-making, comforting and catalyzing... so that we dare to make the choices that bring out our deepest, truest truth?

These words have been floating in the back of my mind over the last few days, as I continue to find myself awash in choice-making and wondering which way to turn. I am writing a theological reflection about conflict as quotidian and therein I establish this point: That conflict is not something to be feared as it is often part of the process towards something greater and may, in fact, enable us to reach a more prayerful and communal goal or hope?

This day I ponder the choices of the week and I wonder how I can continue to live life as I always dreamed... God, in your grace.

Thinking about Lilies

Mary Oliver has a lovely poem in which she uses this phrase, thinking about lilies, and yet that is not why I am writing this post. I write this post instead to announce a new part of my blog called "Stories: Lil Epiphanies." Here will be a place where I will work on nurturing and crafting little epiphanies in process, stories that are in the midst of creation. Suffice it to say, this blog author has been inspired to do something that she should have began awhile ago... Amen.