a stranger in a strange land.

i don't belong here.
here is not my home.
and although most times,
that can be confusing,
and frustrating,
and exhausting,

i am finding comfort in Your promise.

i am finding peace in Your mystery.



may i not be disheartened by those who don't understand me.
but, may i pray that they too would see Your glorious Light and Love.

poverty.

"simple intention is a rare gift of God. rare because it is poor. poverty is a gift that few religious people really relish. they want their religion to make them at least spiritually rich, and if they renounce all things in this world, they want to lay hands not only on life everlasting but, above all, on the "hundredfold" promised to us even before we die.
actually, that hundredfold is found in the beatitudes, the first of which is poverty.
our intention cannot be completely simple unless it is completely poor. it seeks and desires nothing but the supreme poverty of having nothing but God. true, anyone with a grain of faith realized that to have God and nothing else besides is to have everything in Him. but between the thought of such poverty and its actualization in our lives lies the desert of emptiness through which we must travel in order to find Him."

-thomas merton.
[no man is an island]

i can almost breathe.

good things are here.
good things are to come.

surprise visits from orlando friends.
neko case show.
wedding in tally.
reunions with tally friends.
a meal of thanks with dear friends.
cooler weather. (crossing my fingers)
long breaks from academia.
and a week spent loving haitian children as best as i can.

americorps: new option for the future?...

in every season.

[i know i'm filled to be emptied again.

the seed i've received i will sow.]

maggie: the little bearwolf.

a friend of mine is fostering her until she's old enough to go to the shelter.
i wish i could've taken her home.
i'd really like a dog companion.


maybe next year.

a good conscience.

saved through water.

baptism.

the pledge of a good conscience toward God.

"healthy contempt for worldly comforts,

burning desire to advance in virtue,

a love of right order in your actions,

a spirit of penance,

readiness to obey authority,

self-discipline,

and patience to bear adversity for My sake."

Lord, i don't know anything.

except for one thing.

You are God.

and i want to spend the rest of my life loving you.

may i always have faith.

always trust.

always hope.

and always love.