Jaimie: After a little debate and the always alluring promise of post-church falafel, Courtney and I decided to attend the Easter Vigil hosted by The Crossing at St. John the Evangelist Church. The Easter Vigil is a service within the liturgical journey of Holy Week that pauses between the death and despair of Good Friday […]
March 27, 2015 at 9:47 am
“I am not skilled to understand, What God has willed, what God has planned.” Thank you Aaron Shust for starting my morning prayers. There is something very profound in that line. It is very humbling. As humans we often have this strong desire to understand what God is doing, how it works, we as questions […]
March 18, 2015 at 9:29 pm
My first week in Boston, I met a lot of new people. I had just recently accepted and become really excited about my calling into ministry. It was also a pivotal piece to my decision to transfer. I found out relatively quickly however, that when people ask you what you want to be when you […]
This past week in my RN212 Christianity class, we talked about the novel “Silence” by Shusaku Endo. I do not think I have stopped thinking about this novel. In short, it is about a Portugese Catholic Priest who goes to Japan in the midst of Christian persecution in Japan. The book addresses issues of Martyrdom, […]
February 27, 2015 at 8:40 am
This was the first whole week of school/work pretty much all semester. The good side of that was working at the pool, I finally got to see my Monday classes. However, it has been an exhausting week. I didn’t realize how dependent I had become on snow days and holidays to be my Sabbath. Since […]
February 18, 2015 at 8:53 am
Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. I went to bed with a belly full of pancakes and my favorite Maple syrup after an evening of fellowship and fun. This morning, in my normal morning text with my parents, my dad (who is a United Methodist Pastor and probably one of the silliest people […]
February 11, 2015 at 11:50 am
Oh it is the season. The season where everyone gets sick. I am now on my fourth day of the flu, and it has not been fun. Having gone now to two doctors who have told me there is nothing they can do, I am frustrated. Why is there no instant fix? I need to […]