Rev Mibi

1. Do you enjoy a good fright? No. I've had some bad stuff happen to me that make me less than enthralled by scary happenings, because s...

...for dear L. She had become engaged to a wonderful man (after a number of years as a single mother) and was looking forward to the wedding...

...not when there are two cats in the house. I was up early this morning, getting ready for a field trip to a funeral home. I was just getti...

So a goodly part of the day was spent doing abstracts of previous lectures for my New Testament study group. Reading, analyzing, winnowing o...

One of the requirements in this diocese for all clergy, seminarians, and paid staff in parishes is that they take two sexual abuse/misconduc...

Thanks to ReverendMother for this lovely Friday Five - it made me feel relaxed just thinking about it: 1. Comfort beverage : a pot of white ...

I volunteered to be a class chaplain. It's the sort of thing I love to do, and that I think I do pretty well. Apparently a number of oth...

I'm working my way through Leander Keck's "Who is Jesus." Only problem with reading this stretched out on the couch is tha...

At 11 pm last night, the phone rang. Never a good sign, since the universe knows I'm incoherent after ten. It was StrongOpinions, in tea...

RM mentioned in a comment on a prior post that I was looking radiant when I was at the concert at her church last weekend. The truth is that...

...just a little swamped with work right now. It's all good, and I'm loving it. I got deeply engrossed in an exegesis last night and...

Still feeling awful. I went to bed early, and slept in StrongOpinions' room since I didn't want to infect poor PH, who's doing a...

I'm sitting here feeling yucky from what feels like a bad sore throat/flu coming on, so meditating on things I've enjoyed may put me...

...remind me why I'm so ticked off that I only got a 91 on the final... Gotta find a way to shuck that competitive streak...

Anne Lamott talks in one of her wonderful books about her friend, whose two modes of prayer are "Thanks" and "what??!!" ...

I really did have grand plans to study hard last night. Really. But first I decided I needed to bake some cookies for Hebrew class. We'r...

That seems to be the operative phrase these days, as we memorize another 25-30 Hebrew words per day plus a new verb paradigm every couple of...

'Twas my turn to do the pre-class devotion: Barukh atah Adonai, ha-mavdel ben kodesh l’chol. (Amein) Blessed are you, Lord, who separate...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Qe1muGKSg Humans aren't the only creatures who can be OCD.

It's hard to believe you're four, but here comes that birthday on Friday and you're a big girl princess! You've given me suc...