February 27, 2004
Coming Full Circle
I sent Woody home and I am blogging in the new store. This feels like it was always supposed to feel. Like a part of my home slightly detached from the rest. The place actually looks like a jewelry store... a bit bare and incomplete, but none the less the image of what it will be...
Its peaceful here. Friday night and people are going home, I can hear them in the hall ways and on the flight of wooden stairs. The storm is coming and I need to go home too.
I wanted to write...Its the birthday season for my family. My Father would have been 77 today. Twelve years dead and yet, not dead in my heart. He asked as he was dying to not be forgotten. For him and for me, as long as someone remembers you fondly, love exists.... I remember...
Lent has begun. I have been so busy that Its been a blur, and I made no renunciations for this time... The obvious ones are things I do already... No TV, or chocolate, I eat little meat, I think that I want to start thinking about a return to corporate worship... Perhaps this is the time...
Some of you know that I was very involved in the Calvary Chapel movement up until 1998 ( funny, the year I discovered Hawaii lol) needed to move on after some major unhappinesses... Led Worship for many years, miss singing very much. Miss the contact of other Believers, but really don't want to go down the road of commitment to a Body, only to get kicked in the chops again by self righteous pastors who think they got the pipeline to God....Brother let me tell you God speaks to people out side the movement, sorry that you didn't know that.
The electrician that put in our lighting these past few days turned out to be a Believer. He went to the New Hope church, (Four Square... Very big here), but he felt that he needed to get out of that Big Church and "go Home"so he and his family have returned to the Catholic Church here in Hilo. He asked if I perhaps needed to go home too...
Funny thing. My next door neighbor across the street is Calvary Chapel of Hilo... Perhaps Ivan the wireman had a word for me.....
Think I will pray about it.
The big storm is comming... it has begun to rain...
