Rev Mibi

as to the power of prayer. The GREs went remarkably well, despite my fears. I followed Quotidian Grace's suggestion and reminded myself ...

GREs tomorrow at 9 am. Four hours at the computer typing away. Just me and my #2 pencils. Fortunately, I have choir tonight to settle my ner...

...for the prayers. I survived the PDC meeting with some tears, a lot of talk (2 and a half hours worth) and a sense that these dear people ...

For good things: my stepson and his wife, parents of grandbaby Bryce, have told us they are expecting again. Since grandparenthood is just a...

I went to a board meeting of our trade association tonight. Fancy restaurant, lots of very pricey wine. I was nominated to a senior leadersh...

My Parish Discernment Committee met for the first time on Sunday after church. As I've mentioned before, they had the first meeting with...

Several of the RevGalBlogPals had posted a Fall meme. Me, too! Me, too! Favorite Fall Food: apple crisp, with the first wonderful apples of ...

I sit on my employer's Diversity Council, an effort on the part of our very large corporation to make our world a caring, accepting, saf...

Tonight's our first Koine Greek class at church. I've been studying on my own, using a computer program, but I think I'll progre...

This has been the week for pastoral care of many sorts. I've mentioned a parishioner who is angry with our rector because of what she p...

I went to the eye doctor today. I had suffered a few months ago from a bout of optic neuritis - an inflammation of the optic nerve which may...

One of my Saturday rituals (while PH is off bicycling 50 plus miles - yes, he is insane) is to go to the Farmer's Market, and then to th...

...the GRE prep. I thought my hatred of all things numerical was at its peak when I was 14 and taking Geometry from the evil Sr. Domenica (w...

I had a long conversation with our wonderful associate rector, another midlife career-changer priest. Topic? The awful clerical shirts avail...

PH threw me a belated birthday party last night. It was delightful (even if I did have to clean the house), with a bunch of dear friends fro...

I bit the bullet and registered for GREs today. I had hoped I'd avoid that, since I've already got one Master's degree, but only...

..but when granddughter K gets to be 16, she'll hate us for this picture. Her Nibs and grandpuppy Maya taking a nap together:

PH officiated at his cousin's marriage yesterday evening. A lovely thing - he gives good wedding. He preached on Phil 4:8-9, not a stand...

The truth will out: I am as much a Harry Potter addict as most 12 year olds. Last weekend, when I got my reserved copy from the library (I w...

Irena says the way I painted this indicates that I am soft on the outside but strong on the inside. I'm not sure how she gets to that, b...