Falling Behind

29Sep10

I’ve fallen behind, but its not been forgotten!  I guess these are more for my own sake, but still, I wanted to publish them. Dinero – Sunday Reflections 9.19.10 Reading 1  Am 8:4-7 Responsorial Psalm  Ps 113:1-2, 4-6, 7-8 Reading 2  1 Tm 2:1-8 Gospel Lk 16:1-13 or 16:10-13 I didn’t have any brilliant thoughts [...]

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Archaic and Narrow

27Sep10

When I think about all those comments about the Church’s stance on IVF from last week, I get all distraught still.  I understand speaking with charity, but I also understand that some things will just always be hard to hear.  I thought this quote was an excellent summary of why I get distraught. (Incidentally, I’m [...]

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Victim souls?

26Sep10

I know some of you have sought spiritual direction (at least from what I’ve read on your blogs) for dealing with the cross of sub/infertility.  I’ve enjoyed reading what you’ve written and gleaning insight into my own life.  I also appreciate your answers to what has helped you “get over yourself” – like serving others [...]

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My new hobby

23Sep10

There are a lot of things I should be doing…learning Spanish…my research…getting out and seeing the city…writing a paper… But check out what I made last week! That’s right, I’m now a knitter! My hippie pose. Do you like my hat model? I think it goes well with the “Scarface” T-shirt, don’t you?  I have [...]

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Quite possibly the best story ever.

22Sep10

At least, according to someone who’s sub-fertile*. Seriously, if you stick with me this might possibly be the best “just relax” story ever, if merely because it occurred over two languages.  Or, actually, just one, albeit one very butchered language. So, its no surprise we’re taking Spanish classes over here and because we’re at different [...]

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Giving Gratitude 9.21.

21Sep10

This past few weeks I’ve been thankful for: My Mexican Family. Its taken a while for us to get to know each other (because I don’t always understand what they’re saying and they don’t understand my gibberish) but we’re finally to that point now.  We even got invited to a birthday party yesterday!  And now [...]

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Prodigal Sons

16Sep10

Sunday Reflections 9.12.10 At the advice of some friends we met during our first week of Spanish school, we went to a different church this week and we stumbled upon a major discovery! What’s that, you ask?  Here, take another look: That’s right!  Its a take-away misselette in Spanish!  (And yes, I took it home [...]

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Stuck in a moment

13Sep10

Does anyone remember this song?  Not the biggest U2 fan, but this song has always struck a chord with me.  I know I’m feeling particularly down when I seek out songs to help me express myself so I apologize for the cheesiness :) I’ve literally been feeling stuck, like I’m in molasses or something, and [...]

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Sunday Reflections 9.5.10

09Sep10

I’ve clearly avoided writing this because to be honest, I don’t even know what the readings were this past week.  My Spanish isn’t processing as quickly as I would like it to (or rather, “why am I not fluent yet?!”) and the acoustics weren’t helping either.  Plus I’ve been feeling pretty awful for this whole [...]

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I am not a writer

09Sep10

I’m a thinker and I’m a talker. I write, publish and delete posts several times a day. All in my head. It seems that anytime I think through something thorough enough to know what I’m going to say, the desire to write it down escapes me.  On the other hand, if I have an idea [...]

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