malibumark

I am coming to the awareness that when I am upat the altar with the priest or just the deacon and sisters -it's not just about my own spiritual experience.... Families and singles and children come...

but I can keep my eye on the main goals... of work...of taking care of life....of responsibilities--- I'm thinking about the subject of "Vulnerability"and how people handle it...how I handle it...

I think because of my challenges and variability of self  I live, much like I drive, defensively. Today was a really variable day within me, my mood and sense of self swung all over the place. Here...

i am starting to find myself, how I see my relationship to grace and see how when when I am alone, a conversation with Christ is a conversation of grace and love and reassurance and focus. It...

A funny story was told to me about one of the sisters here who is blind. When she applied for disability payments they said ‘You have to get an eye test.’ She laughed and said ‘ok!’ When she...

I drove a sister to an appointment she had an hour away at Johns Hopkins this morning.It is an adventure every day it seems, since I've never lived in, or been to this, part of thecountry before...

Just brushed teeth and took my meds and listening to the news on the radio!Have a good and healthful night.

my illness is flaring up.Mental wrong turns and just a fractured sense of self. I may be feel rebuffed a little but I have the agency to reframe my perspective on my actions. I am useful here and...

I had a therapist once say to me in his observation "you need a whole world Mark.." I rolled it around in my head and remembered back to that as a kid I used to make little worlds out of found moss,...

I woke up and made my way down to the chapel for 730amservice wearing my cassock today/ I felt very abject and I started to realize that when I dohave a sense of dignity sometimes others will react...

we are together hereimperfect peopleimperfect servants of godand lifegathered in fear, in comradery and lovefor each other and a greater masterin the universe who will grant ussafety, wisdom, help...

I’m starting to see the dichotomy within me, the proclivity to let loose and say and do whatever I feel and then contrastingly, plummeting to earth emotionally for when having done something stupid...