Wow, who wants to go home, hop on the couch, watch Gossip Girl, eat melted cheese, drink hot chocolate and cuddle with my dog?
Seriously.
Anyway, we had a fun weekend, stayed in stormy Friday and watched Harry Potter and the magic of the fiery goblets stone...that was fun. Saturday I got home early and cleared the house and my head of furry things, really early, so about 9AM, John figured we had enough time for an early morning Survivor before we left for Madison, for some reason it felt so strange and fun to do that.
We drove to Madison and had the world’s greatest hotel room, with the capitol staring us in the face, glowing and huge. We felt really fancy. We wandered all around Madison, john went to school there so he shared all his memories and bars, and we had “married people” talk, telling each other what we wanted when we die! It was horrible and awesome at the same time. I love him.
Sunday we drove to see John’s godson get his first communion. That was so strange. I don’t go to church and have not except for weddings here and there. SO WEIRD. I thought it was neat, I have little problem with church, until it starts infringing on my rights which only happens in politics, which is ironic, but SO WEIRD. I’ve sort of been practicing this Tolle/Buddhist spirituality and so I was interested in going to church and hearing how it was the same and how it was different. In a critical way, I noticed a lot of “you must go spread the word of Jesus” and “many people don’t understand Jesus” and that doesn’t please me necessarily. I also noticed a lot A LOT of how Christ is in you, the Spirit is in you, God is in you, so many people in me! Lots of talk of all my sin, how much sin I have, how I have to fight my sin and temptation, sin sin sin….so strange. In the good ways the priest (Father? Priest, I dunno…) was so soft and gentle with the first communion kids, easing their nervousness, teaching them, they sang the sweetest song, everyone turning around and shaking hands, praying for the sick and the less fortunate, all great things.
I was just very surprised at all my sin, and the exclusivity and the instructions to “spread the word”. You know, with the Tolle stuff, he advises you to not spread the word, that your “awakening” is just that, yours. There is no personal sin to fight, no fear, no nothing I have to cleanse from myself except for unconsciousness….I’m so much more comfortable with this…but again…going to church was FASCINATING and I was bopping up and down during many of the hymns, love all the singing.
After the communion I hung out with John’s mom and aunts who asked me all about the wedding, which was fun! You know, my family is full of men, men everywhere, so it was lots of fun to talk and talk and they’re so sweet and put no pressure on me at all, and it was just a nice happy fun occasion, and John was just so handsome.
All in all, a great weekend.
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i was at a wedding this weekend ... catholic mass. it's strange, all the up/down, up/down, kneel, people doing signs of the cross and all. i was raised lutheran, which turns out isn't that different than catholicism (why i thought it was growing up when luther was bolting directly from the old catholic church is beyond me), but i don't really go in for anything so organized and in the fancy churches.
i'm more of a church basement girl these days. and i was noticing how my fear and ego get all pricked up by some of the stuff that gets said, but the priest doing the service was pretty chill and my friends picked out a few good readings. there weren't any good hymns for us to sing and i was not digging on all the rote ritual, but try to do the 'take what i can and leave the rest' when i go to churches like that. sometimes i do better than other times.
but, yeah. it's always interesting to say the least.
did you do the weird optical illusion with the capitol thing in madison?
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