Beginning Again!

   Here it is September, and finally I return to my writing spot.  My office is cleared of clutter, the house is clean, all temptations to distraction removed.  I have my cheerful fountain, Rod Stewart's serenade, and the gray sky is parting to peeking blue sky and white clouds.  I love to write.  It will be so delightful to get back to a routine which nurtures me.  Moms often end up giving 99% of the time.  The other 1% we're asleep.
   The summer was eventful, random activities and I learned something about myself.  I really am bad at math.  I took on the budgeting/allocating of funds... and I failed miserably.  NO overdraws, but despite my best intentions my mental rounding is insufficient partner to tightly managed money.  It really baffles me still.  I had a plan, I wrote out the plan... and then life happened and I needed to adjust the plan on the fly.  Anyway, Aaron and I worked on it together and I think we'll keep it that way.

     Listened to Michael Frost yesterday.  He is... a relevant pastor.  Aaron heard him at a conference and brought home CD's for me over a year ago, that I never heard.  He starts with a premise that he didn't feel like he fit in the church, and I have to admit, that is me completely!  I'm not drawn to anything "churchy" even social events.  When I hear a church service offered Saturday night--rock music--come as you are--that is intriguing to me.  I'm unconventional when it comes to "church."  Mr. Frost's solution is hanging out doing something you enjoy as a third place--somewhere you choose to be your community.  It could reinvent the idea of church for me.  'Share meals 3 times a week, bless the people in your community randomly and are spontaneously yourself'.  I really resonate with that.
     So the next step is where do we go--with whom... Because I am not an individual--I am a wife & mother.  I am now a clan leader.  This community has to be for my whole clan.  Something we all enjoy...  More on that as it unfolds.