I began life as a Quaker ( a more fundamentalist "programmed" sect with a preacher, hymns, etc.), went to a Catholic college where I considered converting and going into the Franciscan order and studying for the priesthood. I ended up within a few years after college a Lutheran, which seemed at the time like a perfectly natural progression! After spending most of my adult life as a Lutheran and then later as a Lutheran pastor, I married a Unitarian Universalist and realized that UUism fit better than the constraints of a doctrinal church. My journey is not a linear path, but more of a labyrinth beginning from the small point at the center and moving outward, ever outward, to embrace wider and wider understandings of the Sacred.
I'm what I've referred to as a 'Lutheran Taoist'; as much Buddhist as Christian, and I love the image of all of reality including people as being unique, changing, waves in the sea that come and go; ever a part of the vast sea of ultimate reality. From a Christian view, this a very sacramental view of existence. From the wider view, it might be described as panentheistic.
There is a country song that declares: "You may not like where I'm going, but you'll know where I stand. Hate me if you want, but love me if you can." I can be outspoken and you will know where I am going and what I stand for. But I am tolerant and able to accept that mine is not the only perspective on truth. Basically I am content to be a heretic!
I'm managing. Three 12=hour weekend nights at the hospital and whatever I can scrape up on the other job at the mental health crisis center. Old dog that is still a cuddly little darlin', but whose days are clearly numbered at well over 18 years. And a wife who struggles with chronic pain and fatigue
Yeah, glad you have a job. Sad that your wife has pain almost daily it looks like
Just came back form my daughter's place . She is a pretty neat kid .Had lots of fun.She sure knows the foods we enjoy . Pesto I love with tiny crackers . I thought I bought large shrimps once in a while . Hers were enormous It definitely not hospital food .
I was at the ER recently and I was told that I have occipital neuralgia . Comes on once in a while . I ws told I could get a nerve block for that . They did a nerve block in my shoulder years ago and I don't want another one .I am coping with the Fibro and the arthritis and now neuralgea. The only thing I can't cope with is stupidity. LOL
I'm managing. Three 12=hour weekend nights at the hospital and whatever I can scrape up on the other job at the mental health crisis center. Old dog that is still a cuddly little darlin', but whose days are clearly numbered at well over 18 years. And a wife who struggles with chronic pain and fatigue.
Yet, we still manage to laugh and to be ggrateful, though at times that gets hard to do.
How are things in your world? By the way, do you hang out on facebook at all? If so, you'll find me there under my full name, Robert Alan Parks. Look for the bear! :O)
I'm managing. Three 12=hour weekend nights at the hospital and whatever I can scrape up on the other job at the mental health crisis center. Old dog that is still a cuddly little darlin', but whose days are clearly numbered at well over 18 years. And a wife who struggles with chronic pain and fatigue
belleoYeah, glad you have a job. Sad that your wife has pain almost daily it looks like
Just came back form my daughter's place . She is a pretty neat kid .Had lots of fun.She sure knows the foods we enjoy . Pesto I love with tiny crackers . I thought I bought large shrimps once in a while . Hers were enormous It definitely not hospital food .
I was at the ER recently and I was told that I have occipital neuralgia . Comes on once in a while . I ws told I could get a nerve block for that . They did a nerve block in my shoulder years ago and I don't want another one .I am coping with the Fibro and the arthritis and now neuralgea. The only thing I can't cope with is stupidity. LOL
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