While I’m Gone

September 22, 2009

Today is surgery day and chances are as you read this I’m in the middle of a 8-9 hour nip and tuck marathon. If you have an extra minute between praying for world peace and a parking spot, I’d appreciate a prayer or two with my name attached. It’s not that I have any fear around the surgery but neither am I such a spiritual goofball that I’d pass up on God getting a few extra prayerful nudges in my direction.

So in advance, thank you. Now pray away!

As I’ve already mentioned I probably won’t be blogging for the next two weeks while I tend to my recovery and enjoy the full benefit of pain medication. If my last turn on the operating table is any indication the coming days will primarily consist of equal parts  napping and whining, and in case you wonder, I do both extraordinarily well. That’s just the way I roll. Ask my beloved which she will confirm with a little more enthusiasm than I would ever deem appropriately necessary.

During my time away I want to encourage you to check out just a few of my favorite bloggers if you aren’t already following them.

You’ll never run out of great stuff to read and reflect on over at Wake Up and Live, Susan’s take on the Scriptures, on the Church and all things justice-oriented relating to the GLBTQ community are refreshing, provoking, and engaging.

Originally called The Closeted Pastor, in recent weeks Cecilia has renamed her blog The [Un] Closeted Pastor. You want to see a pastor’s heart? You want to watch someone dealing with the day to day realities of staying in and coming out? You want to see an example of courage that will blow your socks off and your shoes along with them? You have any interest at all in seeing God’s faithfulness blast open someone’s life? Then spend this last year following Cecilia’s journey beginning in January 2009, and don’t you dare skip ahead to May. I’m serious. Don’t even think about it!

I heart John Shore. Seriously. Never met him in person, never talked to him on the phone, but if I had a thing for straight guys he’d make the first cut. I like his writing, his humor, his adoring love for his wife, his glee in rocking the boat with hot topics like “the gays,” and a life of faith full of questions shored by rock-solid commitment. So read his blog and prepare to laugh and cry and scratch your head in bewilderment. And if he says something you don’t understand, that’s okay. He ends up stumping everyone at one time or another. Oh, and if you bake cookies, don’t tell him. Please trust me on this. The man won’t stop pestering you until you snap like a pretzel stick and pull out the flour bag.

If I could draw I’d create cartoon panels like Jon over at The Ongoing Adventures of ASBO Jesus, but drawing is just one more thing I can’t do like yodeling, neurosurgery, and laundry. If every picture tells a story, then every cartoon of Jon’s preaches a sermon.

And then there’s a site I just discovered developed by Kori Ashton called Les Be Pure. Just how much do I love that name!!! I’m still looking over all the content myself but in what I’ve already seen I’m thrilled to no end to find another woman out there boldly declaring the familiar refrain of God’s love for all and encouraging gay and lesbian Christians to live out their faith 24/7. While Kori and I are saying many of the same things, there’s one big difference between us . . .that girl can sing! But can she polka? I doubt it!

Anyway, my dear friends, that should be more than enough to keep you off the streets and out of trouble but if you end up with too much time on your hands don’t forget to hang around here and read through the archives.  You’re invited and encouraged to add comments to any of them, just remember it’s going to be a few days, after the drug-haze has lifted, before I’ll be able to stumble back here to approve any pending comments.

Be well. Be whole.

You’re loved. By God. By me. No joke.

You really are.

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