Love!

I just want to conclude the Lenten portion of our blog with this:

In my entire life, despite my interest in theology, my devotion to Christ, and my general attempts at "being a good person", I have never really understood the concept of "being in love" as an analogy of one's faith until today.  I am completely in love with the Catholic faith and traditions.  It totally makes sense to me now.  I'm also really looking forward to seeing how my faith grows and matures.  I don't know whether I should keep this to a private journal, or whether I may continue to document these transitions through public blogging, however.  We'll just see how things go.

Sometime towards the beginning of this blog (maybe more  around the middle, I don't remember), I mentioned that I was concerned that doing a blog for Lent wasn't "good enough" as giving something up for Lent was.  Upon reflection, I'm extremely glad that I had the opportunity to document the last stages of my journey from Protestantism to Catholicism.  I also think that doing these blogs with more relation to my faith has given me the opportunity to reflect more truthfully about where I am and where I stand with God.  When Angela and I started this blog, it really wasn't our intentions to be overtly political or religious.  We just wanted an outlet to write and a way to keep our relationship together after college.  I think this year, our blog became something more for me.

I hope sincerely that this little project will continue-if not over the course of the year, at least next year for Lent.  If this happens to be Angela's last year, however, it has been an honor and a privilege for me to work with someone as amazing as her.

The Book on Dating

Last night, despite feeling sick, I decided to go to church to hear a lecture:  "Love; baby don't hurt me".  How can anyone not go to something like that?  It just begs attendance, which certainly did not disappoint.  I think there were at least twenty or so of us there.

The lecture was on who not to date, or rather, what to look for in a relationship that will key you in that maybe the person you're with isn't exactly the one for you.  I hate to say I fit quite a few of these "warning signs" from people I have dated in the past.  Apparently, I have bad instincts when it comes to dating.  Why is this lecture not a dating handbook?  Then again, if it had been, would I even have bothered reading it/taking it seriously?  Hard to say now.  I've seen my share of successful relationships since then that I'd like to believe I know better what to look for, but who knows.  Love has a tendency to blind you.

I tried to look up the the particular article that was used, but I couldn't find it.  I'm not sure whether it's a specific lecture or if it can be found online, that's rather part of the problem.  With google's new tracking policies, I've found it to be a far less reliable tool for helping me find what I'm looking for, expecially when I click links to see if "this might be it" and it decides this must be what I'm looking for.  If I find it, I'll definitely link it to this page, because I think it was a good lecture and I think it would be useful to others.  I'm not sure how useful it was for me aside from pinpointing where I've gone wrong inthe past, but even that can be helpful for future relationships.

Day 2: 21 Hours

This is me and my flower.  I made it because I'm getting married tomorrow!  The one in my hair is whats known as a 'practice flower'.  I had to make sure my method of making a hair comb flower was structurally sound before I used my most super awesome flower that I'm actually putting in my hair tomorrow.  I also decided that since I have a flower in my hair today, I should wear a Hawaiian dress to match.  This was probably the best decision I have made all year.  You know, besides the one to marry John... but really I made that decision pretty much the day we started dating CAUSE HE'S THAT AWESOME! 

Also, Kris has accepted my love.  She's lent blogging with me!  We're like a super awesome unstoppable lent blogging team.  All we need now is a mass of fluffy kittens and the world will be ours. 

Day 1: Angelas lent blog, year two

This lent blog is like a sequel to last years lent blog BUT with the added bonus that Kris might possibly grace us with her presence if she deems us worthy enough of it.  We've actually been talking about starting a website called Asylum 204 since last year when I started my first lent blog (back when neither of us had any homework to worry about and it was the perfect time to start such a thing) but it didn't happen so I started my own.  Now we're both in Graduate school and have no time for such a project so naturally that's when I set up this blog.  Kris says she's too busy to post right now but YOU'RE NEVER TO BUSY FOR LOVE KRIS! 

Anyway, with regards to lent, I plan on posting something every day, even if it is hilariously short, EXCEPT for Sunday's because (as we learned last year) they are not part of the 40 days of lent and totally messed up my whole day count.  Unfortunately this blog is not sanctioned by the church because, as I mentioned on Facebook, I have class tonight and will be unable to receive my official start of lent ashes.  What a tragedy. 

Happy Lent everyone!

Angela