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Drumroll…
update on my last post– things went well! I was recommended by my CPM for candidacy and will be appearing in the presence of Presbytery on April 5th…. so soon too! As for the process, I will say that this time around was much less nerve-wracking than the previous two meetings with CPM, which is…
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Into the fire
It’s D-Day. And by D-Day, I mean my annual CPM meeting. Now, granted, I love my CPM. They are great folks and I every year I leave with the sense that they are truly committed to this process. They are loving and supporting (and to my knowledge none of them read this blog so, no, I am…
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When Email fails; blog.
Who knew that in this day and age of dependence on email, that email might actually fail me? I have spent the last week trying to email the following to Broad Street Ministry with no luck… I chalk it up to internet demons. Anyways, if you are out there Bill, its me, Sarah, eagerly waiting…
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Election Fever
I admit it. I am obsessed with primary election gossip. Cnn’s “Election Center 2008” is hot-wired into my search engine history and now I only have to type the first “C” to get what I am looking for. But I ask the question– What is it about this primary process that has me, and for…
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In the Struggle there is Hope
I went on a retreat a few weeks back with my fellow seminarians where we spent almost two days in seclusion on the property of some Cistercian nuns in Southern Massachusetts. It was a great experience for me, to a great extent because it was intentional space set apart from the world around me, space…
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One less hoop…
So today, whilst many a folk was probably enjoying the weather, or reading a nice book, or whatever folk do, I was doing the final preparations to send my forms for candidacy to the Committee on Preparation for Ministry in San Jose, CA who oversees and handles my ordination. It was a pretty big deal,…
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sweatlodge!
my first sweatlodge experience…. I stayed in there 2 hours, and it was almost 130 degrees for most of it. I sweated, I prayed, I contemplated…. and then a took a super duper shower. It was most excellent.