Musician. Composer. Recovering perfectionist. Minister-in-transition. Lover of puns. Hijacker of rock song references. Questioner of the status quo. I'm not really a rebel. Just a sincere Christ-follower with a thirst for significance that gets me into trouble. My quest has taken me over the fence of institutional Christianity. Here are some of my random thoughts along the way. Read along, join in the conversation. Just be nice.
Categories: fun, What the heck was THAT?
Categories: faith, Meanderings (look it up)
Categories: random stuff
I got a bit tired of the basic Blogger layouts, so I’m trying something new. If you’re reading this in a reader, click over to my page and see whatcha think!
****UPDATE 9/8, 10:30 AM****
Based on your comments so far, I dug into the XML code (which I happen to know NOTHING about) and just happened to find the URL that was making the colors fade down the page. I deleted it and changed the color to the default. That seems to make the page more readable on my computer; let me know if this has helped.
The only other glitch I’ve noticed is that my page is loading a little funky, kind of putting the items on left-to-right on my screen. Let me know if you see this or any other issues when loading the page. Thanks, guys!!
Categories: fun, what I did today
Categories: food for thought, My Story, post-charismatic
So I just found out about Robbymac’s synchroblog this morning (via Barb and Sarah)–the one encouraging people (especially post-charismatics) to tell our stories of “how we first became acquainted with, and eager for, the felt presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives.” And I was like, “Hey, I wanna do that, too!” 🙂 So here ya go.
I was raised until about age 10 in the Episcopal church. My divorced mom was devout, and I remember she and I being the only attendees many times at early morning Lent services (only one of us actually being a willing participant).
Categories: fun, what I did today
Earlier this week, millions of Americans got into vehicles and fled from Hurricane Gustav.
Categories: Meanderings (look it up)
This isn’t something I can really prove scientifically or anything…but it seems like God sort of maintains His own seasons in my life at certain times of the year.
Take the late summer/early fall months, for example. August, September and October. It seems like these are really seasons of harvest and change for us. If there is any sort of life change for us, it usually takes place during these months. October was the month we moved to Tulsa. October was also the month we moved to Broken Arrow. August was the month we married. There’s other stuff that’s happened during these months, also–extra blessings from God, stuff like that. I dunno. It just seems that way.
Categories: children, faith, food for thought
Categories: Things that are too good to keep
This happened for the first time today.
Just too good to keep.
Grinning.
Thanks for reading. And making me grin.
Categories: food for thought, My Story
After my last blog posting, it’s getting apparent I need to change the subject. 🙂 (Thanks for all the comments, folks.)
I’m sure I’ve covered this previously somewhere in the blog archives, but it’s sort of on my mind today. I’d like to share a little of my story, and how I have wound up outside the walls of institutional Christianity.
Reading the stories of many others out there, it is apparent that many who are among the “disenfranchised” when it comes to the IC have simply walked away. Either they left because they were disillusioned, or they left because they were wounded (and often a bit of both). Either way–they were the ones who did the walking.