Above most other things, that is what I want my home to be. A sanctuary. A place for people to be accepted completely, loved unconditionally, and welcomed with joy. A place of rest. This does not always happen. I have lived with people whom I was not willing to accept, love or welcome. I [...]
Archive for the ‘Growing’ Category
From The Palace – Sanctuary
Posted in Clinicals, Growing, Small Moments, Thankfulness on 25 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Small Moments – Walking Home
Posted in Growing, Small Moments, Thankfulness on 6 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Small, tired voice on the telephone. One word answers, but not sullen. So sleepy. Bedtime soon, after reading.
Thumping feet in the hallway. I can hear them even from this far away. A second sleepy voice, “Watcha’ doin’ tonight?“ Her standard greeting.
“I was singing. Lots and lots of singing.”
“What kind of singing?”
Breathe in, from close to [...]
A Good and Joyful Thing
Posted in Growing, Small Moments, Thankfulness on 5 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A year ago, I wrote about having the chance to ask for forgiveness. And about that forgiveness being given readily. I don’t think I wrote about taking communion the next day. About standing in the front of the church and truly feeling, for the first time in many, many years that I had “come with [...]
Small Moments, Big Question
Posted in Clinicals, Growing, Overheard, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Clinicals, Community, Small Moments on 12 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Planning road trips. Wondering what to wear, what book to read aloud in the car. Imagining listening to the radio on scan and laughing at small things glimpsed through small windows.
Reading instrument manuals and package inserts, trying to learn principles. After the tenth word is written in the margin with a question mark behind it, [...]
This Must Come First
Posted in Clinicals, Growing on 22 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I can be hypercritical. Don’t be so surprised. Just watch me in a room with a speaker and see the things I write down. Watch me write down things after I’ve given a lecture. This is what I do. It is something I am good at. Watching, questioning, making improvements, making cuts.
I am not here [...]
First Day
Posted in Clinicals, Growing, School on 29 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The first Monday morning. I am awake more than early enough, just a little nervous. The hospital is just a short walk from the apartment so there should be no worries about being late. I know where the room is, deep in the basement, around three corners, past one corridor of laundry carts taller than [...]
Words of Wisdom – Forward
Posted in Growing, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Small Moments on 21 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Three days until the move. I am essentially packed. Well, if you count having everything stacked in the front hallway as packed, then I’m ready to go.
I am leaving so many things behind. In lab the other day I was feeling sad over this when a classmate laughed, “You know what you [...]
Checks and Balances
Posted in Growing, Small Moments on 7 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every year, on this night, I spend time being uncomfortable. Remembering things I would rather put aside. Is it wrong of me to be comforted because I know that tonight, that this year at least, I am not uncomfortable alone? I want there to be a year when I don’t even notice. Maybe soon.
This Week in my World: Small Moments
Posted in Growing, Overheard, School, Small Moments, tagged Growing, Overheard, Small Moments on 1 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A conference at which the sessions I thought would be intriguing were close to horrible and the sessions I thought would be unbearable were amazing.
On lunch break from said conference, walking through the city. It was overcast, but not cold. Four blocks east, two blocks north, four blocks back west, two blocks south. The most [...]
A Love That Will Not Let Me Go
Posted in Growing, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Church, Love, Prayer, Thankfulness on 1 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been playing for Lenten services this year. Quiet, simple services. Two hymns, no extra service music. Just time to center and listen.
Last year at this time, school was so hard. There was no time for anything else. I substituted for a midweek service even though I had so much homework and really didn’t [...]
