Jul 3, 01:33 PM
This morning, I was asked to describe where Prospect is, where I’m living for the time being. “It’s on the edge of nowhere,” was my response, which resulted in a few chuckles. And it is. The drive from Medford takes about an hour, my phone quits working about halfway up, and the population of the town is a few hundred. There is nothing much other than forest and state parks farther up the road. To be honest, there really is not much in Prospect, either.
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Jun 23, 05:38 PM
I moved to Oregon three weeks ago.
It was rather sudden, really. One Saturday, toward the end of May, I was unemployed and increasingly dejected, with nothing on the horizon. That night I dreamed that a monk I didn’t know, but who I was going to hear speak in a few days, told me, “Christina, your answer will come tomorrow.” I promptly forgot about it. But Sunday evening, my dad had a message from his sister that their cousin was looking for someone to take care of her mother, Dad’s aunt. Monday and Tuesday were a flood of phone calls discussing details and informing the necessary people. Wednesday night, while I was at the monk’s presentation, my flight was booked. I said goodbye to my home parish on Sunday and flew out early Monday, Memorial day.
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May 11, 10:40 PM
What a strange juxtaposition of events. One day we were singing joyously “Christ is risen!” and only a week later came the news “bin Laden is dead.” I wonder if I am the only one who feels the tension of that contradiction, or even sees the contradiction at all. Surely I cannot be alone in this.
It is not that I am denying death. I know too well that death is still something we all must face. The contradiction I see is in self-styled Christians announcing in the media that this was a necessary outcome. The contradiction is in the celebrations that broke out after the news came. O Judgement! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason! How can we shout “Christ is risen,” then in the next breath celebrate the death of a man- any man?
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