Friday Five: Childlike edition

Today’s Friday Five celebrates the spontaneous child in all of us… or at least the one that we admire in someone else:

1) On a scale of 1-5, with 5 being I can’t do this now I am about to jump into a pit of plastic balls at the mini-mall and 1 being I can’t do this now until I can get all of the fonts on my blog to match – where are you? Oh I definitely am a 5. I have a very young spirit and anyone who encounters senses this. My motto is life is to short to be so serious.

2) What is the silliest/most childlike thing you have done as an adult? I do silly things all the time. I like to think that life is a musical and so I've been known to break out into song and dance spontaneously. There was the time where I stood up on a coffee table in a coffee shop and sang to my friends (almost got us kicked out). When I was a chaplain, I used to sing and dance down the halls to stay up in the middle of the night. My favorite place to sing was the ICU. I regret that cuz I'm sure once those folks woke out of their comas they probably South Park songs in their heads.

3) Any regrets? Yep, but I'm not going to write about that incident, I'm too embarrassed.

4) What is the silliest thing you have ever seen another adult do on purpose?
My father-in-law mooned my partner and I as we walked past his house. Oh so silly. Oh so white, I close my eyes and I can still see the glare.

5) What is something you wish you did when you had the chance? Kiss my same gendered partner in front of Fred Phelps. We had an opportunity but she was too nervous. So I kissed my best gay boyfriend instead. Didn't have the same effect regrettably.

BONUS: For our ‘I told you so’ sides – what thing did you skip doing and you’re really glad you did!Please let us know if you played in the comments including putting a link to your post. I wish I could say I skipped a silly thing but unfortunately I have poor impulse control.

Monday Garden Blogging: The fruits of my labor

A Bean

A squash

A bunch of tomatos

A tomato good enough to eat!

Wednesday Garden Blogging

Spinach and Onions

A little tomato

Squash up close and personal

Surviving Cilantro

A RevGal meet up

A fun time was had by all at the Portland Maine RevGal meetup. Mary Beth was visiting Songbird in Maine over the weekend and Songbird invited me to come visit them at her house. Originally she invited me for Monday lunch, however being a pastor in between churches, I did not have a Sunday commitment and I've always wanted to hear Songbird preach. Well I got a twofor on Sunday because not only did I get to hear Songbird preach a wonderful sermon at her new church where she is serving as an interim, I also got to hear MaineCelt preach another lovely sermon at Songbird's other church. Usually when I attend two worship services on one Sunday I get tired, however both these sermons captivated me. As MaineCelt would put it, they definityly have the gifts and graces for ministry.

After worship we went to SongBird's for a yummy brunch and then sat in her living for hours talking about life, ministry and music. It was good to be in the company of friends old and new!

I've decided to change my attitude about my being in-between ministry jobs. I realized through prayer and discernment that God is giving me a much needed break from ministry so that I'll be fresh and optimistic for my new church whatever it will be. I've asked God to help me let go of the pain of my previous pastorate so that I would not let it effect my future ministries. This time of not serving a church is God's way of letting me heal. And now I'm enjoying some of the benefits of not working for a church such as being able to hear my colleagues preach and two day weekends for the first time since I got ordained!

This just makes me smile

Melancholy Sunday Morning

Sunday mornings before church used to be a time of excitement and anticipation. I'd be crafting a pastoral prayer or doing the final touches on my sermon if I was preaching. I'd wonder at what I was going to wear. I'd thank God for the privilige of leading yet another service.

This morning being an out of work pastor I woke up melancholy. I love being a pastor so much that the though of endless Sundays not leading worship depresses me. I'm contemplating going to a worship service today, but I am having a hard time just being in the pews rather than being up front.

No hot prospects on a call...settled or interim at this time. Where God do you want me to preach your word and preside over your Eucherist. Why aren't you throwing me a friggin' bone for your sake.

Vegetable Garden Update

Gardening, then and now....

Then 6/03/09 Now 07/03/09

The plot.

The Plot Thickens

The tomato plant.

The tomato plant in bloom

Inch by inch...row by row.

Watch my squash and brussel sprouts grow.