Please Pray...

For my cousin's family, he died in a car accident last night.

Moving

Isn't usually much fun... Until you get where you are going anyway. I am sure I will be blogging more about our new adventure as soon as we get settled in.

Happy Anniversary

Well I am a little late but I will say it anyway. Happy Anniversary to the most wonderful man in the world! (for the record I wasn't late in real life, just in the blogosphere.)
:)

Looking Forward, Looking Back

Yesterday was my last day at my job. We are moving to a new state and I will be starting a new job in September. It is a better paying job in a nice place and my husband will be in a very good school this fall. I am so thankful for all of the blessings we have received this past year and I know my prayers, one after another, have been answered. It is amazing how I used to be so cynical and felt that life was either only a product of chance, or destined to be miserable. I used to have a very deep seated notion that I didn't deserve good things in life and if things were going well, it was simply too good to be true. These are self fulfilling prophecies, if you expect everything to go poorly in life, chances are things will. I am so grateful to have found the power in hope and joy in my life. Hope and joy awakened in me by our Lord Jesus Christ. It is as if, in opening my heart to God and what the Church teaches, a garden has begun blooming in my soul. Thanks be to God!

To Post or not to Post.... Part II

OK so I know I was going to post my conversion story (I am working on it, I swear!) but I was just perusing some of the blogs on my blog roll when I came across a link to this article over at kris thinks... Naturally I had to stop and think, does this mean I am a narcissist? Am I over sharing details of my personal life on the Internet? Perhaps I should think about taking down that post on NFP? Well, at least for the moment, I am leaving it up because, on the whole, I enjoy reading about other peoples lives via blogs. It is good to read another person's point of view and I find other people's life experiences fascinating, even the mundane ones. Maybe that makes me weird but I really think it causes me to look at my own life differently. Blogs have helped me to be thankful for all of the blessings in my life and have shown me that I am not alone in my life circumstances. So for what it is worth in this vast landscape of technology, I will still post my story, well, maybe the edited version. ;)

To Post or not to Post? That is the question.

I have thought of posting my conversion story in the past but it seemed such a large thing to do I put it off. It is a bit intimidating in a way, to post pieces of your life on the internet. However, it is also a searching, not unlike placing a message in a bottle and throwing it out to sea. So if anyone finds it, I hope it helps you in your own journey in some small way. I will probably post it in parts in order to better organize my thoughts. Stay tuned...

How not to worry?

I realize that I am supposed to be giving my cares and fears and anxieties up to the Lord but umm..... how exactly does one go about doing that? I feel like we (meaning my husband and I) are at a crossroads of a sort in our lives right now. We are getting ready to move to another state so that he can go to a better and less troubled school (check out FUMARE on the blog roll if you are interested but be prepared to do a lot of reading, on second thought maybe avewatch.org would be easier to navigate, but I digress.) And just when we think things are set to go, he gets scheduled for a brain MRI for a worrying difference in the size of his pupils. If anyone reads this please send up a prayer for my husband's health. In the meantime I should get back to trying not to worry. :(

In a Schlump.

Maybe it is all of the goings on at home lately, maybe it is not knowing where we will be yet again this fall, or maybe it isn't any of those things but I am in a bit of a schlump lately. I feel sort of lost... well maybe lost isn't quite the word. I guess I feel like someone who woke up in the dark, can't fall back asleep, and is counting the seconds to sunrise. I am speaking of the state of my spirit. Having woken up to so many truths in the last year, I find myself restless and imperfect, searching for God.

Blogging... or lack thereof.

Wow, it has certainly been awhile since I have posted anything. Things have been busy around my house with weddings, in-laws preparing to be first time parents, and my husband's quest to find a different law school this fall (in addition to me working). Hopefully things will settle down soon and I will have more time to blog! In the meantime enjoy the summer weather.

If I knew then what I know now...

I never would have started taking birth control. For the record I no longer do. My husband and I started using NFP almost a year ago due to my frustration with the side effects of hormonal birth control. As a side note, I believe those NFP classes ,(my interest in which was fueled by a tape my mother in law gave me, as well as our Precana classes a year or so earlier) as well as a book I mentioned in an earlier post, were God's way of whispering in my ear, calling me to him.