Warm, fuzzy quote of the week.

"Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks... A good night sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace." --Frederick Buechner

Tiffy.

It would've been your birthday today, sweet girl. I miss you.

Happy vegetarian birthday to me.

This month marks my sixth year of being a vegetarian. I'm happy about that.

Just thought you should know.

Yay for health.

:)

Observations.

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." --Anne Lamott
I heard this quote two times yesterday, at two completely different occasions, and it's stuck with me. I think it's because I have grown tired of this "us vs. them" mentality in our little Christian circles. Everything has become this giant culture war, segregating our lives and this world into either "secular" or "Christian" categories. We demean and most often challenge those who share opposing views like it's our right to do so. Meanwhile, the marginalized and broken people of this world are benefiting from this....how? What is all of our rhetoric and judging accomplishing?


Just a few thoughts.



In other news, I met a rather terrific boy from Oregon last week. :) Although it looks firmly attached in the photo below, my face has been blessed off.