Ew, Cindy, that's right up there with the worst of ita's links.

SA, come back and tell me how to be one, because I think I've got it down, and then I encounter the humans, and I find I'm right back at square one.

HAR. You make me think of Chesterton saying tartly, "It is not true that Christianity has been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." If he were alive today he'd have to add something about all the Robertsons and Dobsons who wouldn't know the real deal if it kicked them in the ass, but who still won't shut up about it and are tainting it and turning it into an insult and a label of shame. Only he'd be a lot more crisp and witty and British about it.

SA, you look amazing - your hair frames your face beautifully, and the curls look so lush and springy without all that weight pulling them down.

Raq, that whole nasty business with the kids and the videotape (the fuck?!?) and the parents and the antiSemitism is just horrifying. Just... ugh. What a foul bunch of humans (which leads right back to Cindy's post above).

And WTF with not being paid yet? How on earth are your employers justifying this? Why are they not moving heaven and earth to fix it? I'm totally wroth on your behalf.

The topic of "real" faith has been large in my life lately...regardless of what that faith may be. Is it simply a belief, or more importantly, a code by which one chooses to navigate life...separate or in concert with intercession? Lots of deep discussion on this subject but no real resolution.

On the Fella front. Good news. It seems our issues may be rapidly resolving. He had a list of things he needed to go away and do before we moved any further and he's been busy-beavering them with gusto.

He also mentioned last night that he got a 'sign' (I'm big into signs) about 6 months ago that...I'm the one! We will, of course, see...but it has gone from a bit angsty to really fun.

I have a 'quest' for him to undertake in recompense and he's pretty excited about it. We both use metaphor like crazy and this adventure is fraught with it.

Also? One of the reasons he waited a year to call is that he thought I had kids! HAR. (I talk about the 'boys' that I take to see boy movies and have been known to call Bartleby 'my little boy.') Bless his heart for plucking up the courage anyway.

You make me think of Chesterton saying tartly, "It is not true that Christianity has been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."

Hadn't heard that one. I knew a bunch of people in Sanctuary and other social justice groups who had bumper stickers reading "Christianity hasn't failed; it hasn't been tried yet," which I'm guessing was inspired by it.

Yay for the guy!

and SA looks very cute - I sent tthe link to the picture to matt so he can see.

Staying up til two in the morning, not the best idea if you automaticly wake up at 730.

Hadn't heard that one. I knew a bunch of people in Sanctuary and other social justice groups who had bumper stickers reading "Christianity hasn't failed; it hasn't been tried yet," which I'm guessing was inspired by it.

I've heard the same thing said about Socialism. Haven't seen it on a bumper sticker, though.

Also? One of the reasons he waited a year to call is that he thought I had kids! HAR. (I talk about the 'boys' that I take to see boy movies and have been known to call Bartleby 'my little boy.') Bless his heart for plucking up the courage anyway.

BWAH!

brenda, yup, almost certainly a shortened version of his comment. He's also, unfortunately, responsible for that legion of Precious Moments-y bumperstickers that say "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly!" Which, as a bumper sticker, is painfully gagworthy; in context, though, it's at the end of a lengthy paragraph about some extremely arcane theological issues, and, as the capper to that lengthy paragraph, it comes at you like a splash of cool water that makes your heart skip a beat with delight.

Unlike the bumper sticker, which is severely tooth-grindy (dunno about the rest of the US, but in the Bay Area suburbs, it's usually accompanied by five or six other hideously chipper stickers, a Support Our Troops ribbon and a W sticker, all of which just make it worse).

Ah, yes. The Cutesie Right Wing.

JZ, I've just eaten, bunky. Please to not make me heave. (Wish Braugher could call them up, be God, and say "Please don't be an idiot. Thank you." Because I think male God would sound like Andre...all due props to Morgan Freeman. Female God? Kathleen Turner or Christiane Amenpour.)

Female God? Kathleen Turner or Christiane Amenpour.

Ann Richards.

Or possibly Cate Blanchett-as-Galadriel.

Kathleen Turner as God. PERFECT.

I like my god(dess) with a little hottsie tottsie.