Oh I have so far to go

So this is officially 60 days in my new quest for a new Spiritual me. This is hard because goodness, I have been challenged and thrown to the ground, questioned and pushed, but I’m still standing. And learning.

At first I was ashamed to admit how much I didn’t know the Bible. How do you go to church every Sunday and Wed- sometimes more than that- for your entire childhood and not know at least ONE bible story? Maybe that’s not important- maybe having a good heart is- but I know God wants me to know him fully and I want to too.

I have been going to church every Sunday, I think I may have found my church home. It reminds me a lot of my great grandmother’s church, with the exception of one thing: I have yet to see a woman in a leadership role. They fit in just fine in the nursery and food closet, quilting and scrapbooking, but to date not one single woman has stepped into the pulpit to give her thoughts.

Now this probably bothers me mostly because my great grandmother was a minister. She didn’t care what you thought of her, and when she didn’t get “promoted” to pastor within her church home, she started her own church! That’s just how she got down. Her name was Frankie Senter. And I’m not saying I would ever even WANT to be in a leadership role there (or any other church) but I would like to know I have that option.

There is a new member class on Sept. 13 and after that, I’ll make my decision. Who knows what I will decide to do, I may even spread out and visit other churches before I make my final decision. But I really, really like the pastor there. He is more of a teacher, he provides a printed worksheet to fill in as he delivers his message. I’m a visual girl, I have to be able to look it up and write it down before it even registers in my brain. I’m not knocking the traditional preachers (my father is one)- it’s just that in this time in my life, I don’t have a lot of time to try to “figure out” what the take-away message is. With this pastor I leave with it in black and white.

My beloved and I spent the entire week doing daytrips. This is the first time in 12 years that we have ever spent the whole week together. It was a lot of fun! We went to the beach, to the Berkshire Mountains and shopping at the Lee Outlets. We had burritos at Mass Moca in North Adams and moose track ice cream in Shelburne Falls. We walked the bridge of flowers and watched the pothole glaciers. It was so much fun! It was like we rediscovered eachother and why we fell in love in the first place!

So anyhoo, I’ll try to update this at least weekly just to keep myself accountable on my 43things list If you have a list, link it here.

Hope you all have an awesome week!