{"id":1744,"date":"2008-05-10T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2008-05-10T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T00:26:00","slug":"i-really-should-update-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1744","title":{"rendered":"I Really Should Update More…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t updated because I’ve been getting home late from work, exhausted, and needing to zone out. Most of what’s been on my mind lately is work stuff and as I really don’t want to be dooced<\/em>, my work life is separate from this blog.<\/p>\n

So… here’s the scoop on my activities lately.<\/p>\n

[+] After having a craptastic week culminating in my glasses breaking that Friday (and having to be duct-taped together so I could drive home from work), I chose to spend last weekend in Great Falls getting my glasses repaired (and replaced thanks to my wonderful in-laws) and hiding from whoever seems to be putting the pins in my voodoo doll of life. It was great to get AWAY from the Hi-Line for a few days and I’m thankful to have family down there with whom I could stay.<\/p>\n

[+] I attended worship at Church of the Incarnation<\/a> last Sunday and enjoyed having a worship service where I could be anonymous and also not be intimately knowledgeable about what was going on. I am truly Episcopal\/Anglican at heart and while they used some different musical settings than I remember from my church in San Jose<\/a>, it was still really wonderful and familiar worship. Kudos also to Rev. Tim <\/a>who preached one of the better sermons I’ve heard in an Episcopal church and managed to take the week’s passage in a different direction than I’ve heard before with that particular text. The church has a healing\/intercessory prayer time at the end of the service and knowing how much I needed it, I went up and participated… and managed NOT to cry. (People laying on hands and praying for me usually reduces me to tears — it’s a testimony to the power of prayer and of what the Spirit is doing in me but it can also be kind of embarrassing.)\u00c2? I kind of wish I could head down there more often because it was such a great experience in terms of worship for me.<\/p>\n

[+] I attended my first barrel race<\/a> last Sunday afternoon.\u00c2? Being a sissified city girl, I’d never seen it and I managed to not look like a complete idiot to those who are knowledgeable about it by looking it up on Wikipedia<\/a> and also asking some of my Montana relatives about it.\u00c2? So why did I go?\u00c2? Well… one of my co-workers is a barrel racer and I asked if I could come watch.\u00c2? I actually enjoyed myself and it looks incredibly fun though it’s not something I’d ever do.<\/p>\n

[+] I discovered a new podcast while trying to find something more wholesome to listen to at work than Lime n’ Violet<\/a>.\u00c2? (I have no problem with the divas but it’s hard to explain to the people around me that I’m snickering at comments about German man-shaving.)\u00c2? It’s called “Catholic in a Small Town” and it’s about the lives of a Catholic couple in a small town (duh!) in Georgia and how they’re raising their kids, viewing their faith, interacting with media (especially movies).\u00c2? I highly recommend it and I’d link to it if I could find a website of theirs that worked!\u00c2? (Ahem Mac and Katherine…)<\/p>\n

[+] On the subject of Catholic things, people who are Catholic\/know Catholics\/want to be Catholic need to listen to last week’s episode<\/a> of Speaking of Faith<\/a>.\u00c2? Seriously, it was brilliant.<\/p>\n

[+] Last Saturday, I decided to scout out where Church of the Incarnation<\/a> was (mostly so I’d know how to get there and where to find parking) and when I saw the neighborhood, I decided to take a walk down the street to the other interesting looking church… which turned out to be St. Ann’s Cathedral<\/a>.\u00c2? I went in, blessed myself, and knelt in one of the pews to pray the daily prayers I usually say in the car on the way to work as well as some special ones for a co-worker facing surgery.\u00c2? There were others in there praying and I thought this was pretty cool.\u00c2? After I finished and had sat for awhile, I decided to look around (mostly to see if there were any candles that one could light) and saw that people were going into a back room and kneeling in front of a screen.\u00c2? Oh… yeah… Saturday afternoon is when people go for Confession (OK… technically called “Reconciliation” now) so I understood then why the church was so full.\u00c2? As it would probably take a few hours for the priest to hear my confession (mostly because it’s been like 9 years since my last one in the Catholic Church), I decided to leave the nice worshippers to their shriving<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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