Friday, October 30, 2009
Frivolous Risks
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
How To Build A Spiderweb
Monday, October 19, 2009
Don't Fit In
I'm back from my discernment retreat (I was on a discernment retreat for men interested in priesthood and brotherhood this weekend). It was mostly a good experience and I was grateful for the hospitality of the novices and the sense of fraternity among both the candidates (us) and the novices.
I had kind of been avoiding meeting with the vocation director most of the weekend, but bumped into him (which I don't think was a coincidence since I had just come down from my room after a frustrating attempt to focus and pray, and just feeling deep desolation) and we had a talk. We both decided it was best to not discern at this time. I don't know if he was only putting my application on hold for now, but I think my intention by that point was to completely terminate it.
Recently, I started going to this religious group for glbt Christians and while many of the people there are generally nice, I feel I don't fit in with gay people in general: the obsession with youth and beauty, people who were a little too upfront about their past sexual experiences, and the general campiness/flamboyance in public places was a little too much for me, more so in a religious setting where I was expecting less of it.
It's kind of a lonely place to be, because I feel I can't completely fit in within the Church nor within a gay environment.
I don't have the energy to write more so I'll just leave it there.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Laughter Came From Every Brick
Monday, October 12, 2009
Ay Marinero! Some Songs about the Ocean.
Coloniales y Ultramarinos (Colonials and Mariners) (two songs in 1 video, by Vainica Doble)
Sunday, October 4, 2009
All The Tress of the Field Will Clap Their Hands
Isaiah 55 10-13
10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
12 You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the LORD's renown,
for an everlasting sign,
which will not be destroyed.
Friday, October 2, 2009
SOLD
My dad may be more or less rich right now, but I'm still poor--so don't plan to kidnap/torture me! Plus I doubt my dad would pay a ransom..rofl. The house did sell for a good price, but we lost at least half the money in what we owed the bank. He plans to use the money to retire in the DR with my family (already there) and open up a small dentist clinic where he can work part time to keep some of the cash flowing in.