Tell Me Again About the Spiral Path?

One of the nice things about my life is that I usually feel like I am making progress. Sometimes the progress is slow. Sometimes I feel like "Wait a minute -- didn't I have this same a-ha moment at least once before?" But usually even the repeat lessons feel like I did start the latest iteration at a slightly higher level than the first time. I'm not going in circles, it's a spiral path. An upward one.

So it was with a certain amount of disgust yesterday that I stared down at the list I was writing in my journal and then wrote over it The Same Damn List. Because it was.

It was my "Pentacles list" -- the list of those areas of my life most in the need of love and sacralization and disciplined attention. Most in need of an infusion of joy.

Okay, maybe I am farther along than I was before. Previously the only way I could think of these tasks and goals were as distasteful but necessary chores. Now I recognize the need for them to be infused with joy and Spirit. The need to change how I relate to them, not just what I do.

But I don't feel any closer to that condition than I was before.

( The List. Again. And a request for insights and suggestions. )

Yo Ho Yo Ho!

Now and then we had a hope that
if we lived and were good
God would permit us to be pirates.*






*Thanks to _storyteller_ for sending me the quote.
And thanks to thuri for my lovely new icon!

The Binding of Isaac

I've had conversations with several LJ friends and friends of friends about the story of The Binding of Isaac.

mollya has just posted one of the best meditations on this story that I've ever read. I commend it to the attention of anyone who reads the Hebrew Scriptures and/or is a parent: http://mollya.livejournal.com/290942.html?view=387710