Sunday, March 31, 2013

Between Peers

Lilly: Candy IS breakfast!
Anne: Totally!  I mean, what else would you eat for breakfast?  Candy or boogers.
Lilly: You can't eat your boogers!
Anne: Yes you can!  I eat mine all the time.
Lilly: Gross.

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Wade Burleson

The more our corporate worship looks like Old Testament Jewish worship (i.w. a holy building in which to gather, authoritative male priests who rule over others, and a sacrificial system of actions designed to please God, etc...), the more our corporate worship is unlike Paul's and early believers' worship of Christ.

(From this post.)

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Of Palms and Sunday

I haven't been to church in, I think, over 2 months. The reasons are varied and have to do with things like transportation, homework, and a month-long illness, but whatever the excuse this record is strange for a child of JMS, a woman who was (is?) at the church building at least four out of the seven days a week can give us.

(Sometimes it's good a week cannot give us more. Sometimes we need to feel like we're beginning again, no matter how arbitrary our seven day time frame actually is.)

But today is Palm Sunday and a huge part of me wishes I wasn't trapped in this apartment with no car and no hope of making it to this morning's service. I've wrestled with the Church these past few years - ever since that awful thing happened and I left a group of people I loved. Ever since I learned to not trust church leadership. Ever since I began realizing that the hyper-authoritarianism in current church culture is really, really sick and terribly wrong.

Despite these wrestlings, today I want to go to church. Perhaps it's to commemorate a day that the Church the world over is celebrating. Today isn't just Sunday, it's Palm Sunday. Today we celebrate Jesus pre-crucifixion when, for several happy moments, people recognized His goodness. Something about my tired soul just wants the traditions, the celebration, the cheesy skit where members of the church lay palm branches in the aisles and wear robes and look ridiculous. Thus far 2013 has been hard, with unwanted suitors who couldn't understand "no" and family divisions and a terible flu and loss of transportation. It's been good hard, too, with school and my nonprofit and sharing sweet times with the same family members who like to divide. But I'm exhausted from its fullness. I just want something simple, familiar, like a Palm Sunday service.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Mitochondria

A&P is the most fascinating class I've ever taken. Ever.

Saturday, March 16, 2013

BBF* is engaged!

This means I'm going to England for a wedding, baby! Oh yeah.

*Best British Friend

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Free Music

Page CXVI and The Autumn Film are giving their full library of music away for free this month at Noise Trade.  Click here!  Page CXVI is their hymns, Autumn Film is their non-religious stuff.

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Endo Blog

Hey guys,

Life is super busy and I just don't have time for regular blogging.  One of the things that's keeping me busy is that I'm starting a non-profit for endo sufferers with three other women.  I'll be blogging occasionally over here: http://endononprofit.blogspot.com/.  You probably won't see me much at this blog for a while.  In school, living with six other people, and starting a non-profit all while job hunting...life is busy.

XO,
Me