How about Bob?
Because, here’s the scoop sports fans: I’ve begun training for a half-marathon.
Are you OK? Finished laughing yourself silly yet? No? Ok. I’ll wait.
By “begun” I mean I’ve done a couple of little workouts this week and realized how out of shape I’ve gotten again. And bought a book and talked a lot about [...]
What is Celibacy?
Celibacy can be a choice in life or a condition imposed by circumstances.
While attending a Marriage Weekend, Walter and his wife, Ann, listened to
the instructor declare, ‘It is essential that husbands and wives know the
things that are important to each other.’
He then addressed the men, ‘For instance, can [...]
Happy Valentine’s day. And by that I don’t mean I hope someone bought you a card or really anything. What I hope is that people in your life show you through their actions that you are loved.
Today is the day that I begin to show that to myself by getting back on the exercise wagon. [...]
Anna’s funeral was today.
Her parents and family came here from Ohio. Many of the current class of grad students sang with the church choir. LT played quite well.
I wish that I understood why I stay dry-eyed sometimes and tears flow freely at others. Yesterday was a free-flowing day — especially during the prayer service in [...]
I got this email from a friend today. I think the same thing is true not only about stress but also about sadness.
The aphorisms at the end are a little cheesy and a little cliche, but cheese and cliche are often true. I like #5 a lot. And of course, #16 seems to fit into [...]
I learned tonight that a(nother) friend from seminary succumbed to despair and depression and took her own life last night.
This young woman was tormented all the years I’ve known her by feelings of inadequacy; pressured by perfectionism and the feeling that she wasn’t worthy without continual herculean effort toward everything she did. She believed those [...]
I have a lot to write about. And a lot to be grateful for.
Which is something that doesn’t exactly help when you feel like crap and don’t want to do anything. and then you feel guilty for feeling like crap and not wanting to do anything. Or talk about it, really.
You’d think I could at [...]
Last summer all the talk was that the Farmers’ Almanac said the 2008-2009 winter was going to be more "typical" or what we interpreted as "old fashioned."
Today it is below zero and we’ve got plenty of snow to make Christmas white. It went above zero for a few hours today, but I don’t think the [...]
I don’t know quite what to make of this but I want to document it so I can puzzle over it and figure it out later.
This last weekend a friend of mine admited herself to the adult mental health unit of the hospital. She had been battling anxiety and insomnia for a little over a [...]
I had a meeting with my supervisor/pastor today. We talked through the service on Sunday (I’m assisting) and then I talked about the job situation. How the corporate job looks more stable now, if even more heinous since I’ll be doing 4 people’s jobs and especially how I just can’t bring myself to look for [...]
