So here it is the middle of October...6 weeks into the term and I could use my retreat NOW.
On my heart today...Simon, sustained an eye injury playing sports yest(15), Trevor, now 18, still missing ... Douglas, 19, busted with drugs at College, mother is "destroyed".Ivon, 2 y.o. Grandson of Isingoma, kidnapped by his father a month ago.
I'm heartbroken by those who bully others and their victims, esp those who take their own lives... Their friends and families. I was bullied at jr. High in Yonkers NY... 140 lbs, 11 y.o. 5' tall and... Bifocals AND from Canada..so I finally threatened RoRo with a steak knife and... My parents sent me away to school.
I have bullied others, I am ashamed to say...
I don't know how to fix this, but I can start with me and make sure I don't hurt others in any way...

On a better note... My depression seems to have lifted, after so many years.
Its really strange, in a Good way, to wake up and feel ... Good.

Well time to go.
Post me back!
I hope to do better with posting.
Peace
Moi

ok so its been a while...

So I have a meeting with Community of Hope in 45 minutes.  We are now 2 priests and next Sunday we go to full 4 Eucharists. One of the priests has to be at the healing station.  There will be 4 stations at the 9:30 and the 11:00 Eucharists.  Each station requires a paten and a chalice.  How long will it take Sally before she absolutely loses her mind and quits?  Glad its not my responsibility... oh, wait! that's right, it is!

For some reason, I am enjoying myself at CCG.   Yes.  Enjoying myself.  

My online class is reading Freud and Carl Jung... I think my unconscious resolved a major conflict or something.  But I don't know for shure, since I can't get into the unconscious.   Even though Jim still looks like my father.  Even though I have major authority issues that seem to have melted away.  Maybe the medication really is working.  It's scary but I'm not questioning it. 

Andrew's father came to celebrate his birthday over the weekend and I cooked!  (stop laughing...)  even used a recipe from the diabeticgourmet.com.  It was a nice day.   Too bad I didn't know Bill was staying another day.  Ah.  Buttons pushed.  Irritation raised.  Hard to be gracious when you realize that neither guy is going to be responsible for feeding themselves... and I need to pull another meal out of my @#$.   Not actually, but you know what I mean. 

Hope you are well, my darlings.   ... Is that an icecream truck I hear?   How delusional....  goes with the full poodle skirt and crinoline I just ordered online.  :-}

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf

This morning at 8:00 I switched from ABC to BBC news and Imam Rauf was speaking live from NYC.  YOu can find it on www.bbc/uk/com  or google BBC.  He spoke about himself, his emigration to NY in 1965, his American pride and his travels on behalf of the US govt overseas, to teach about Islam.    He is a great speaker, I think.  He got to talking about the Cordoba initiative, named after a time in Cordoba Spain when Jews, Christians and Muslims lived in harmony and learning.  BBC cut him off after 30 minutes... can you imagine US media covering his presentation? 

I'm finally engaged in learning more about Islam and the interfaith dialog.  Will, you said yesterday on FB that you had a reading from the Qu'ran yesterday at worship.  What a great move to include all our brothers and sisters of faith. 
I am deeply troubled that, in the major network news at 8:30 am, no mention was made of the Imam's speech.  Why am I continually surprised at the lack of coverage of events that could be life-changing for so many?   Have you noticed that the flood victims in Pakistan and the victims of the Chinese floods and landslides are off the news?  Yet we know that the Chilean miners got their cigarettes... Is this a hemispheric or racial or??? prejudice? 

Heavy sigh.  What we gonna do???  peace out, my friends...

Welcome to Mother wonders...

This is the new blog I have been talking about.  Know that this blog may/will contain some wonderings you may or may not like, agree with, or vehemently disagree with.  My purpose is to reflect on the world and everything in it.(Really?) Things theological, philosophical and otherwise.  Please accept this as a way for me to communicate thoughtfully (I hope) with friends. 

My first wondering is the faith and hope with which people come back to church.  It's wonderful to see the hope in their eyes... the smiles after worship is finished... the amazement?... and for some, the pain that they hope God will heal.  

A friend's son has just left the rehab program/school he was attending.  It's complicated.  Please pray for Trevor and his family... that they may be healed and made whole.  I cry when I pray for them.  Pls join me in prayer. 

last wondering for tonight:  The choirs opened with Bruckner's Locust Iste this morning, offertory was "I was glad" and I wondered if I could stay where I am for another year.  I know you have some thoughts about that.  I know Freud would. 
peace out. 
feel free to post back... on what this Sunday meant to you? 
peace,
Mother.