Called to the Revolution

Blessed are you who bear the light in unbearable times, who testify to its endurance amid the unendurable, who bear witness to its persistence when everything seems in shadow and grief.

Blessed are you in whom the light lives, in whom the brightness blazes— your heart a chapel, an altar where in the deepest night can be seen the fire that shines forth in you in unaccountable faith, in stubborn hope, in love that illumines every broken thing it finds.

Spiritual Practice Challenge Day Two: Light a Candle

I bought this candle over the weekend from an amazing candle maker/social worker. This one was called "You Got This" and it's made with essential oils to promote stress relief. It's energizing and inspiring and I feel so blessed to spend time in its light.

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Spiritual Practice Challenge Day One: Make Something

When I went to the admitted students day for my seminary, the admissions director told us to follow our fear. I wrote it down and didn’t think about it until I was getting a tarot reading yesterday. I was feeling kind of out of place in my program and was asking what I needed to feel more grounded and sure of myself in the program. The final card in the spread was The Moon. The person giving me the reading interpreted it as telling me to follow my fear. It reminded me why I am doing this even though it might be hard. Why I am here even when it’s scary. Because in the unknown, there is possibility. And I’m going to follow my fear all the way there.

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Today was my orientation for my MDiv program.

By around 3pm I was exhausted and so full of information and had no idea if I would actually need any of it so a friend and I ducked out and went to get coffee and sit outside.

We talked about how surreal it is to be actually doing this. How we were starting legacies in families where graduate education was either never thought of or never feasible to actually do. How we were figuring it out and figuring it out together.