Saturday was my birthday. My mom rented a cabin in Santa Cruz and we all went out there to barbecue steaks and play Cranium in the moonlight. It was great fun.
My birthday present, you ask? Oh, yes. Certainly worth mentioning. I got pepper spray.
So here I am, the beginning of a new year in my life. Life Teen has started, and every time I'm put in a position to do something new and uncomfortable, I feel that familiar hesitation and certainty that I'm inadequate for the task. But if I take it to prayer, one thing comes back to me; a line I heard years a go from a book about temperaments. "Throw a melancholic in the water and he will swim". Perhaps the theme for this year will be learning to swim.
About Me
- Faith G
- I began blogging when I was diagnosed in Feb. 2008 with invasive breast cancer and needed surgery and chemotherapy; the blog was then a means to keep in touch with friends and family without running my cell phone bill up every billing cycle. Despite what I may feel at the dark, lonely 2 am hour, breast cancer is not who I am (although it's pretty much what I'll be doing for the next few months). I am a devout Catholic (a revert to the faith). So those are some of the big things. Little things...Um, ok... left handed, bookworm, introvert (melancholic- phlegmatic for you RC types, INFJ for the Meyers Briggs types) special ed teacher, loves pickles (got them for Christmas a few years ago and can make a darned good Polish Pickle soup), love "Lost", don't like sushi, have no interest in jumping out of airplanes but hang gliders might be peaceful, get very carsick, love animals, often dream about sharks and Disneyland (but never in the same dream); drive a non- descript, dirty white car with a pro life bumper sticker on it, no allergies except to penicillin, drug of choice is Vicks NyQuil, like Peets hot chocolate and Starbucks iced tea, coffee is gross and so is beer.
8 comments:
Gee, and I always thought you were a pretty good swimmer!
Sounds like you had a great birthday. Life Teen is a pretty good program, and can have a powerful effect on youth. What role are you playing on the team?
Hope you're well. You're in my prayers. And, though I know you're a generous and sharing person, please don't share your pepper spray with me! ;-)
Happy Birthday, Faith!
Pepper spray?
I didn't know we were birthday buddies... My birthday was yesterday. There's something particularly profound about starting a new year this time around. Glad you're doing well. Happy Birthday!
☆Happy★Happy☆Birthday★Faith☆
I wanted to go to Santa Cruz with you!!
♪Happy Birthday, Faith♪
Please post your birthday photos on this web（＾＾）/
Hey Papes,
Happy Birthday. I tried calling you the other day, but you weren't there so I left a message. Mom wanted to get pepper spray for me too, but I think I convinced her not to. Who knows maybe I'll get it for my next birthday.
I so know what you mean about feeling inadequate for the task. My usual thought is, "I can't do this. Other people can handle this, but I can't." But you're right melancholics can swim. And also when I think I can't do this that just makes me turn to God and say, "um... you gotta help me here." One of the reasons why I love St. Therese is because of this- she wasn't scared of her littleness. Here's a quote from her that I used to think about often.
"What pleases him the most is when he sees me loving my littleness and poverty."
Love you and Happy Birthday!
Hoper
Happy Belated Birthday, Faith! Cranium in the moonlight?? You can't get any better than that!
Actually it was Cranium by flashlight...
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