Beliefnet

Home > People > tawonda

tawonda

You are not connected

Profile Visits: 1032

Beliefnet URL:

More About Me

My Tagline:
Visit my journal:http://community.beliefnet.com/lutheranchik

My Interests:
Prayer, Meditation, Worship, God, Interfaith issues, Charity, History, Movies, TV, Music, Books, Education, Travel, Gardening, Current events, Politics, Art, Environment, Holistic living, Health, Depression, Cooking, Pets, organic food, Community Supported Agriculture

My Favorite Books, Authors, Musicians, Movies, Preachers, TV shows, etc:
Authors: Kathleen Norris, Margaret Guenther, Kelly Fryer, Marva Dawn, Robert Farrar Capon Music: Everything from Bach to rock; am currently very much enjoying my growing Putumayo world music collection.

Who Inspires Me:
many people

My favorite spiritual activities:
praying and working

Who I'm praying for:
"all persons and conditions"

What is your current spiritual mood?:
Grateful

What's your spiritual type?:
Questioning Believer - I have doubts about the particulars but not the Big Stuff.

About Me

I'm a longtime Beliefnetter who enjoys networking with other people of faith. I'm an active member of a growing ELCA congregation in rural Michigan, and recently graduated from our synod's lay ministry trainng program, trying to discern how best to proceed from here; my interests include worship, prayer, ministering within the gay and lesbian community and incorporating spirituality into everyday life. My other interests/hobbies include reading, writing, birding, gardening, cooking, hiking, "blue highways" travels to interesting small towns and antiquing. I am learning how to canoe and kayak, and I enjoy snowshoeing in the winter. I am an enthusiastic Tigers/MSU Spartans/Detroit Shock fan, and my partner and I shameless boosters of "outstate" Michigan.

Visit my blog:http://lutheranchiklworddiary.blogspot.com

My Basics

Gender: Female

Occupation: underpaid public servant

Relationship Status: In a Relationship

Faiths: Christian
Faith Description: Lutheran (ELCA)

tawonda's Journal

Bookin' It: Tawonda Recommends...

Posted: Jan 20, 2008 7:19 PM

Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, her account of her family's attempt to, for one year, live off the agribusiness... (more)

The God Game

Posted: Jan 20, 2008 6:15 PM

From my other blog -- based on today's lectionary readings, which you can find at the excellent online resource The Text This Week,... (more)

I'm Baaack...

Posted: Jan 20, 2008 6:12 PM

As you can see from my dormant blog, things got busy for me in November, and kept going full-tilt-boogie through New Year's. So this... (more)

tawonda

more blogs »

My Photos

See all tawonda's photos

Audio/Video

tawonda's Friends

Friends: 41

Jupiter

smcisaac

Hatman

sacrificialgodd ess

sorrowful_myste ries

REteach

Melancthon

ericksdahl

View All

My Groups

Gratitude Circle

Feeds

Top Religion News

In Sydney, Pope Urges All Faiths to Unite Against Violence - July 18, 2008 at 4:28 PM

Associated Press SYDNEY, Australia - Pope Benedict XVI on Friday urged religious leaders of all kinds to unite against those who use faith to divide communities - an apparent reference to...

Feiler Faster

-

Idol Chatter

-

Virtual Talmud

-

Speaking of Faith

Recovering Chinese Religiosities (July 17, 2008) - July 10, 2008 at 2:00 PM

Put the words "religion" and "China" in a sentence together, and Western imaginations may go to indifference at best, to brutal repression at worst. Yet in grand historical perspective, China is a...

The Spirit of Weight Loss

What’s Your Favorite Food? - July 14, 2008 at 1:00 AM

Most people have a favorite food, one that they keep returning to throughout their lives. For some it’s a comfort. For others it’s an addiction. My favorite food was ice cream. I would eat...

Top Health Features

Spring Clean Your Spirit - April 17, 2008 at 6:58 AM

The pleasant feeling of clarity and refreshment is there for the taking--no matter if it's technically 'spring' or not. Listen to the meditation now .

Holistic Spirituality

10 Ways to Simplify Your Life - April 17, 2008 at 6:43 AM

As we face an ever-increasing pace of life governed by email, instant messaging, and 24-7 busyness, we may become paralyzed looking at the options. These tips, based off of Christian principles,...

See all tawonda's feeds

Guest Book

View All

holygirl

hi good morning - March 3, 2008 - 08:01 AM

Report as objectionable

one conciessness 111

January 19, 2008 - 01:08 AM

We are all one being at our core. Science has essentially proven this with the super string theory, and numerous individuals, who have expanded their conciseness/mind in one way or another, have said the same thing. We are all one. Your pain is my pain and my pain is your pain. When you go into a room and you feel anxiety, suffering, or depression, exc. You are actually only feeling somebody else feelings. You were designed in this fashion in order to stay the social, loving, compassionate beings that you are. This is your true nature, and you can only experience happiness and joy when you are acting according to your original great nature. Great people have tried for millenniums to gain happiness in other ways but have failed over and over again. They have looked outside themselves with no return for their search. You are love no matter what illusion you believe to be your true identity at this very moment. Any other illusionary identity than your true one will miss lead your soul into confusion and pain. You are connected to the god of love and so you can only be what you love, but you can be deceived. We need to quit accepting a belief system that says we are not mature enough to run our own world. We need to understand that what we created/creating in society can never be greater than the creators themselves. If God wants us all to have free will then a “god” that delegates to our world would take this away from us. The whole idea is a contradiction. We are accepting a predestinated fate of control and suppression based on an interpretation of writings of a possible future. The more you read the Bible you will see that Prophets had predicted many times to destruction Israel, and yet it still exists. This prophetic message of Revelation like all prophetic messages was a warning for us to change!! This was not there for us to fall into the trap of control and loss of freedom by our Co-creations of this possible future reality!! This is very deceptive, as Satan will deceive the whole world. This deception takes the good-natured beings of Christianity that love mankind and God, and conditions them into a belief system that creates apathy for our world and the direction that it is headed, and is currently. “The problem with not getting involved with politics is we end up being ruled by our inferiors.” Plato. We need a new based on the truth of oneness. Satan’s plan is one of separation of the souls who understand their true nature as a server of God and fellow Man. The more we argue over doctrine, and religion, the more they win, and the more we, as oneness, loose!!! This is a calling to all church’s, faiths, and great souls, young and old, to take the great responsibility within our role in our civilization as a whole. Again the time is short and there is sorrow for those who rejected the words of the prophets in the past. Never forget that God is the God of love and forgiveness and that you have been forgiven for every sin, turn away from deception that causes sin and leads you into death. Remember also that what lies for you in heaven, and the kingdom within, is much greater than any pleasure here on Earth. You are either accepting or rejecting that which you are, LOVE. “Even if you fail in changing the world the intention and will to do so will shine like a jewel inside your soul that will last for eternity.” But don’t be miss lead thinking your salvation is based on works, because it is faith. So with that faith that you possess you can use to create greatness for the earth and all living beings that inhabit it. “You do not need more faith you just got to make sure the small seed of faith that you have is being nurtured and growing.” The God of the living is with you providing life; you just need to perceive it. I love you because you are me.

Report as objectionable

BeliefnetSabee

December 31, 2007 - 08:04 AM

Happy New Year friend! I hope this new year brings good things for you. :)

Report as objectionable

BetteTheRedde

Happy Birthday a Little Late! - December 28, 2007 - 07:34 AM

Happy Birthday, my dear, and many happy returns. Awkward day to have a birthday; my cousin who shares the same awkward date is also getting his card today. Hope it was happy and that FT and the critters spoiled you rotten, as you deserve. Namaste Bette

Report as objectionable

sacrificialgoddess

Happy Thanksgiving! - November 21, 2007 - 12:10 AM

Have a good holiday!

Report as objectionable

View All