Monthly Archives: January 2011

blogging, faith, goals

Creating a new goal for myself

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I went to church tonight. I’m embarrassed to admit its the first time I’ve been all year. I’m pretty sure its the first time I’ve been since Christmas. That’s really not like me, to miss mass in this big of a block. I guess to my defense, I AM living these days just trying to catch up, so I guess I should say I am grateful to finally catch up with church!

This weekend’s Gospel was about being fishers of men, and the homily was about how we help one another. With faith that things will work out, we reach out and help our fellow man and as such, we become fisher’s of men in God’s name. That probably isn’t as clear as I mean for it to be, but I think the idea is still there.

A pastor I had through high school pushed using your “time, talents and treasures” to help others. Tonight’s homily made me think of that, and I felt like it went hand in hand with that idea.

I’ve found ideas I have when I’m in church tend to be ones I need to run with… God speaks a little clearer when you’re in a church, after all. I’ve been wanting to write more on faith with a heavier hand toward religion for awhile. After all, writing about it would be using my time, talents and treasures! I really haven’t wanted to do that in this blog, though, and I’ve also felt a lot of fear towards doing it.

However, I’ve decided to start a second blog strictly for my thoughts on God and religion and faith. Like I said, I’ve felt fear about this. It is going to be a big step out of my comfort zone. I’ve sworn for a long time that I wouldn’t talk too much about religion since its so personal to each individual. Its so personal to me, that’s for sure! However, I will strive to keep the blog open and uplifting, but in the same breath be honest and (somewhat) blunt.

It’s a new goal for me! It’ll also be a new challenge… one I am most certainly ready to attempt.

weather

Oh hey snow, long time no s… oh wait.

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It snowed today.

Again.

When they kept predicting it leading up to today, a little part of me was skeptical. We hadn’t exactly gotten “warm” this week (since last week’s week-long snow shut down), but I had dared to wear short sleeves under my jacket this week instead of the heavy sweaters I’ve been living in for the last, well, month.

Besides, we get snow here in Nashville, but really? We’ve already broken our yearly average. So maybe the forecasters were being a little over-zealous in their predictions of 1″ – 2″ of snow.

Instead, as if right on time, around 3 pm it started to fall. Then it seemed to dump snow!  My husband and I, of course, had to go outside to experience it.

Again.

This time, though, it was coming down hard enough that I could hear it falling! I was a bit amazed by that fact. It sounded a little like a soft rainfall, only lighter. Less staccato on the roof, and more like a drummer using a brush on his snare drum.

Two teen girls walking up the street after school were singing “Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!” at the top of their lungs, much to our delight. I snapped a few photos of the snow, and even as part of me is slowly getting a little tired of the traveling concerns that accompany snow… I still remain amazed by how beautiful it is, how quickly everything quickly sparkles under its blanket of white.

Oh the snow stopped almost as fast as it began. Temperatures will keep it around for maybe a day, then it’ll melt… getting ready for our next chance for snow a few days down the road. We are currently the snowiest winter since 2003. At this point, I wonder if we won’t even break that record this year. It’s only mid-January, after all. At least 8 more weeks of winter to go…

1-20-11 Snow