Calling & Clarity

  • The Hours: Update

    shellytilton: I live alone, but that is not why I am lonely. Lately I’ve been torn between two spiritual worlds, the one which I left and the one which is beckoning, though I am not yet ready to join it.… Continue reading

  • 60 Hikes: Twin Forks Trail

    Hiked my 6th trail of 60 around Nashville today! Twin Forks Trail, again out in the middle of nowhere. Notable sightings on the way: a donkey, extremely tall cows, one very large pig, and about five American flags. This trail… Continue reading

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  • Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile. Julie Burchill Continue reading

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  • Expectations and Realities

    Allie Brosh is a blogger who tapped into the psyche of a twenty-something. She astutely demonstrates the inadequacies most of us feel, and does so with pictures that make me giggle like a 6 year old. Her latest post was about expectations… Continue reading

  • My baggage reads: I do not believe.

    Everyone carries some varied degree of a weight around with them of their past experiences or actions. Before this weekend, I thought my load was pretty light. I’m not really a needy person, I’ve dealt with most of my childhood/awkward teenage years… Continue reading

  • Death, Jesus’ blood, and the bad place called Heaven.

    As a preschool teacher, I am never lacking in interesting, amusing conversation. The topics span from how their fathers wax their eyebrows to why ears are mushy and fingers are not to amusing misunderstandings. Today, while on the playground kid… Continue reading

  • The Happy, Reposeful Now

    This past week at Vespers, there was a poet who spoke about happiness, or makarios, which is usually translated blessed. I didn’t catch the name of the speaker, although I tried hard to figure out who he was, as I… Continue reading

  • The Hours: I don’t want to think about this anymore, so I’ll write it…

    shellytilton: The early American colonies hung homosexuals, then gave them life in prison. Now we ridicule those who don’t accept same sex marriage. It’s time we make more room for GOD in this country! 1 Corinthians 6:9-11. I’ve thought about… Continue reading