Don't Make Me Unleash The Winged Monkeys!

The $155 for the Wicked tickets hit my account last night.

The credit did not.

George's supervisor is going to hear from me on Monday morning.

Sacred Homemaking

This is from Beyond Words: 15 Ways of Doing Prayer, by Kristen Johnson Ingram, which my spiritual director loaned to me this week.


Since you spend a lot more time in your house than you do at church, home should be your first, basic worship space. You may have a small altar or prayer corner, but your whole house is a sacred space, where you live and pray and think and create. So "interior decorating" becomes a spiritual process where you create areas that shimmer with what's holy.

I can't say that much of my house is "shimmering" with the Holy right now, but I really like the way Ingram encapsulated what I'm trying to work toward in my approach.


I've spent all my life living through words and with my focus on internal/interior things: contemplation, fantasy, imagination, philosophy. . . All of which are wonderful and good and have resulted in riches. But for me to continue to grow, I need to get out of my head. If my spiritual life is going to grow, I need to get it out of my head and into my body, my home, my lovelife, my work.

Today was focused on making _storyteller_'s new apartment a welcoming place when he arrives tomorrow. I didn't want him to be greeted by empty, beige rooms and a barren hearth. As I had fun creating sacred space, it occurred to me more than once that I need to bring the same kind of playful, loving, nurturing, spiritual energy to taking care of my own home.

It's easier with a blank canvas to work with, but the principles, the pleasure, should remain the same even after the home has been occupied for several years.

Lots to think about.

Ha! There I go again: thinking about something.

Lots to try out, to play with, to dabble with.