At last. I can stay.
Nineteen years of background stress gone in an instant.
it kindly stopped for me
yet another non-theological post…
but for this: pondering your death is a classic spiritual discipline.
So, imagine the scene:
me, my car, and a very very steep driveway.
Ahead, a man and his dog.
To the side, a sort of cliff edge.
Below, perfectly smooth black ice, slick with tension.
We skid slowly and gracefully off the edge of the road, as I tried simultaneously to steer back from the spin and to aim for the rhododendron (the other option being a car-length drop and flip into the neighbour’s garden).
All day since, Emily Dickenson on my mind.
(man, dog, car, rhododendron and I are all fine, by the way. But nine hours later, it still feels all too close.)
who do you know?
Hermione’s Heaven is working well enough that we are going to try to make a go of it. But if it is to succeed, it needs a much wider membership base.
So, this is to stir up business.
Do you know anyone who is growing in faith and may be looking for ideas about how to engage more deeply?
Do you know any ‘perpetual students’ who love a challenge, and who find small bits of stimulus fruitful?
Do you know anyone who is isolated in their faith and may like a space for conversation with other curious Christians?
Do you know people who might like to share resources and have access to a resource base for ‘things to try’ with small groups, congregations, liturgies?
If you can answer yes to any of those things, would you please ask them to join Hermione’s Heaven?
The group is by invitation only (to maintain a safe space), so you have two options:
1. you can join by telling me you’d like to in the comments; then you can invite as many people as you’d like.
2. you can encourage them to email me or leave a comment so that I can send them an invitation directly..
Hermione’s Heaven is a ning group that offers a weekly ‘challenge’ and regular space for conversation. There is no time commitment for members. Drop is as often or as seldom as you like. But please join!
If you have a blog of your own, and would be willing to link to this, that would be helpful too.
bred in the bone
I think I have said this before — but I believe deeply and truly that snow is created to make us slow down.
So here I sit, watching the cat watching the birds.
I have declared it a snow day.
There is no reason in the world that I couldn’t do 8, 10, 12 hour work today without setting foot outside. But that would be to miss the point of this rare white sabbath.
The vestry might — might — get their agenda tonight. But maybe not.
Tomorrow normal things can resume.
wonderful exchange 