Oh, shoot

Mom didn't go home from hospital today, after all. Her x-ray still revealed a bit of pneumonia. Please continue to pray for her.

I had a chat with my boss today about needing to work more, and with some advance notice other than "Can you come to work in an hour?" which normally is all the notice I get. Which is why I say no alot. I also said that I had thought about going to the hospital to get more hours, which I have. There are plenty of hours to be had over there; here I work so seldom I hardly feel as if I have a job. In order to keep my nursing license, I have to work a certain amount a year, and the way I've been going, I will not get enough hours to keep this hard earned piece of paper! Hopefully, I got through to her. She seems to like what work I do, so that is in my favor.

And another thing--I went to Eucharist this am and heard KML+ pray for a certain parish in our diocese, the one and only that is sabre rattling about the presence of gays and others who don't fit a certain mold. (In this largely Lakota Sioux diocese, this is the richest and most non Lakota.) They've not come to diocesan convention for the last two years. I am aware of a certain meanness in that rector's conversation, a certain self righteousness that is distressing. I need to ponder this as it seems like lots of folks who wish to exclude, exude that meanness. I can't believe that is of God.

Tired again

Back to real life after a week away and I'm exhausted.

Some of this is good. I've done some nest maintaining (ie, cleaning) and the house looks much more livable. Also have done some big time cooking, and reconnected with a couple of my brothers.

But I'm tired of the meaness that some of my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ are displaying toward each other. I've seen some pretty nasty stuff from both sides of the current unpleasantness that is in TEC. One of my good friends from seminary was particularly hurt by another seminarian via Stand Firm. She wasn't a person to those folks; she was a label, a symbol, a source of derision and scorn. Some of the posts on Stand Firm were so scary as to be pathological. I would not blame her if she changed her phone number or moved in fear for her life. On the other side, it doesn't help those of us who are more inclusive when some of us make fun of those with whom we disagree or call them names, either. We need to take the high road. All of us need to take the high road.

There are ways to disagree without being disagreeable.

I personally need to recall the baptismal convenant, which asks me (and us) to seek and serve Christ in all persons (not just those with whom we agree), and to respect the dignity of every human being. If I keep that in the forefront, it is difficult for me to slander, libel, or simply make wicked sport of those who hold differing views than I do. It is as if I'm making sport of Christ himself.