Deus Caritas

God is Love


The Holy Father has written his first encylical! Deus Caritas est.

God is Love

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Deus Caritas

The Land of Not O.K.

How easily we move from the land of Jubilation, then have our visa revoked and are moved back to the Land of not O.K. The Peruvian has informed me this weekend that he's thinking about becoming a priest and he has serious concerns about the amount of time that I spend with my friends and can't see a future with us because of it. I think he is freaking out with nerves but this opinion is not well received by him.

It's not that I don't have a lot of experience in the Land of Not. O.K. Its not that I haven't been told how much I am loved, how much I am wanted to spend the rest of life with and how much I make someone happy only to be told some kaka mayme story that makes no sense less than a month later and now this person never wants to see me again in their whole life.

Which of course, brings me back to my first post on this site. Is it worth the heartache? And I quote my wise single self from back then:

"For His reasons, God has needed to form me and fashion me to have great
strength. He has left me on the potter's wheel for some time. Each relationship
a touch to the clay, a finger narrowing in here, hands widening there. I
question and I search and I step out in adventure with each move a spin of the
potters wheel and each relationship molding my shape until I am crafted just so."

I can look back and know that I have loved as God has asked me to love and that I have been faithful to every movement. And God in is Wisdom has asked me to step out onto the surface to walk on the water to allow me to beleive in him and to fashion and mold me even more into the woman he desires me to be. Let it be done to me according to your will. And the beauty that we create in the process is breathless to behold.

Engagement Season Part II

Katie is engaged!

I haven't heard the detailed story, only that the lovely Latino Catholic Gentleman she was dating has proposed on her birthday and she's said yes and that he's moving to Denver!

Congratulations girl!

Engagement Season

Here's some good juice:

1. Tracey engaged January 1 2006! After two years of dating! Her man gathered her for Christmas Present exchange, and THIS YEAR she had a small box with bling inside. He got down on one knee and said he loved her and asked her to marry him. She smiled and was so excited. "You haven't answered me yet" he exclaimed. "Yes" She cried.

This just in...

2. Michele engaged on her birthday, Sunday, January 15! Scott , her boyfriend of two years who lives in Pheonix and was coming in for her birthday. He told her not to plan anything Sunday night after we went to 4:30 mass at St. Annes. Then, when he gets into town he asks her where she wants to go for dinner? She rather testily, says, Scott, you told me not to plan anything for the evening and I haven't, and its my BIRTHDAY so wherever YOU PLAN to go we'll go. Just pick something. She was quite ticked that not only had he told her that there would be "no surprises" on this visit but that he also had not planned anything for her birthday.

The collective gaggle of girlfriends, "we" were also mad at him after hearing this story. We tried to contain ourselves when seeing him at mass. After watching Desperate Housewives Sunday night with her roommate, princess up in the air, I sighed and said despondently, "I'm going to put the phone by bed, in case you hear from Michele, call me." PUITA shook her head, "I don't think there's gonna be any call." "Me neither."

Imagine my delight when at 11:30pm I have a call from PUITA! "No way!" I answer the phone. "Yes!" she screams. We scream, we cry we can't beleive how Scott got us so thrown off the trail. Michele came with Scott to check into his hotel and help him bring his bags up to his room. There is a trail of rose petals leading up to the bed. On the bed, says LOVE spelled out in rose petals. There are gifts for her birthday. And Scott comes out with a Cushion cut loose diamond, gets down on one knee and says," You always make eveyone smile, and two years ago you started making me smile. I want you to make me keep smiling for the rest of our lives, will you marry me. We can shop for the setting together tomorrow." Can I just say, Alleluia!

God is so good....

New Year's Resolutions

Here are my new years resolutions.







1. Exercise

2. Pray

3. Spend more time cooking

4. Get to work earlier

Five Quirky Things about me...

Rules: “The first player of this game starts with the topic “five weird habits of yourself,” and people who get tagged need to write an entry about their five weird habits as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next five people to be tagged and link to their web journals. Don’t forget to leave a comment in their blog or journal that says “You are tagged” (assuming they take comments) and tell them to read yours.”Yes, I've been tagged. Here goes:Five weird habits about myself:

1. When feet hit the ground, am on my way to the Coffee machine. If one is not close, I go into a controlled panic until I can get my fingers curled around a cup of Joe.

2. My desk at work must be clean, or I feel completely out of control of my entire life and am plunged into the depths of despair. I must have some spot in my life that is in total control.

3. My closet at home is the complete opposite and usually is a state of free for all. You would think that I am trying to turn my closet into a game like those play areas at McDonalds full of balls where you have somewhere to jump into and play around. I must have some spot in my life that is in total disarray.

4. I start drooling and enter a comatose state when listening to good Jazz. That is good information for anyone who wants to rob my house.

5. On an airplane I must sit on the aisle so that I can go to the restroom at least three times a flight. I think I have some phobia left over from being on a roadtrip where no one would stop to go to the restroom.

I am with Cammin that She and V are the only bloggers I know...

Therefore,,, I make my own rule and tag - Melanie, Elizabeth, Tonya, Marcia and Rory. HA! Reply here!