Yesterday the priest at my church announced that he is retiring. Transitions are difficult, and the saddest part is that once he leaves he will no longer be attending our church, for at least two years. I, along with a whole slew of us, will sorely miss him. He might be surprised to know that, because I only talked to him one-on-one once, when he was sitting at Barnes and Noble promoting the book he had written. However, his spiritual presence in my life was palpable just in the passing interactions we had week after week. That says a lot about his character.
Good luck, Gordon. As someone said to you yesterday during the passing of the peace, "You'll finally get some peace!"
Things I'm Studying
- Right now I'm trying out meditation on a more regular basis. It's hard work!
What I"m Reading - It takes forever!
- Awaiting the Child by Isabel Anders
- The New Religious America by Diana Eck
My Household
The three of us
About Me
- Margaret "Peggy"
- Unless you know my half a century plus history, you’ll wonder what’s in the double name. Well, to some people I am Peggy and to some I’m Margaret. There are very few people in my life who know me by both names. So no matter which name you connect with my face, welcome to my blog! I live in Tucson, Arizona, USA, happily devoting many of my waking hours to a career in IT at a community health center, with a side career translating from Spanish to English or vice versa. But the real me isn’t so much defined by what I do, as by what I seek. For the past few years I have been on a spiritual journey, asking a lot of questions about life and death. I can’t say that I have any earth-shattering answers to those questions, but an over-arching purpose in my life is to continue asking those questions, so I suspect as my blog develops, you’ll see lots of postings in this line of thought.
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I totally know what you mean. Our Phophet, Gordon B. Hincley passed away a few months ago, and yesterday in General Conference, we got to sustain the new one, Thomas S. Monson. I loved Hinckley, and the transition to Monson is going to be hard, but I just need to think that both are inspired by God to do his work, so it makes no difference.
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