Mary did you know

...that your baby boy would save our sons and daughters

I'm still getting used to the feeling of seeing so clearly the ways that I have changed over the past year and a half or so. Maybe it's because a lot of them have been fairly large scale. And for me, in my fairly short life of being a fairly happy person, I can safely say I can't remember a time when I've been happier. My family is good and healthy and happy, school is going well and I am actually having some fun and making new friends, and even learning a thing or two somewhere in there. My spiritual life has never been so rich and full, and never have I wanted to keep going down the rabbit hole, as it where. Some things of note that have happened recently.

I've lost over 30 pounds since October, and hope to lose at least 120 over the next year or two. While I am addressing a need to get some weight off quickly, I have also begun changing my lifestyle so that weight will not be such an issue. If weight loss is addressed again, it will be 30 pounds or so and not 150 pounds or so.

School is no longer laborious anymore. I'm having a blast, and my classes are fun and interesting to me again. I really do enjoy telling people about what classes I'm taking, and sometimes revel in the fact that I have to explain them because the name of the class leaves them with somewhat of a blank stare. I sometimes wonder who the first person will be to ask the first thought that I know usually pops into their head, "What is that and how the hell is that ever going to help you in life(a.k.a. get a job)." On that note, feel free to read about a class I'm really excited about next semester by going here: http://www.barnard.edu/reacting/index.html

I've actually learned a few thing on the guitar, and can pick up easy songs fairly easily. I can now pick up a guitar and play two or three songs from memory. Now if I can only start to play bar chords...

Discernment is moving at a slow speed, sometimes even sluggish. I think this is by design, and I'm ok with that. Sometimes it is very obvious when someone is called to be ordained, and the process can be spread out. But most times not. Sometimes are harder than others when going at this speed, but I do accept it a fact, as well as the right way to go about it. I think discernment has been factor in a lot of the changes that have happened recently, and for that I am grateful. I am cofident that God has led me to walk this path, and no matter the ending, things will be wonderful. I would like to extend an open invitation to anyone and everyone who would like to talk with me about anything related spirituality and faith and that kind of stuff (now referred to as God and shit, as deemed appropriate by Kelly Hudlow and myself) and my discernment. What do you think about it? What do you think about it in conjuntion with me? I invite agreement and (maybe even especially) disagreements, becaue those are allowed too. Until then...

The blind will see, the deaf will hear, the dead will live again. The lame will leap, the dumb will speak, the praises of the lamb.