Today, I am offically one year old on blogspot.com.

I look back over the last year and I feel as though I’ve come full circle. Let me explain…

A few months ago a young girl from my congregation approached me and asked me to mentor her. She is 19 and chose not to go to college after she graduated. She is currently teaching dance at a local studio and trying so hard to figure out how to be happy. She and I are reading Captivating by Staci and John Eldridge and today I was typing up the question on the chapter 6 “Healing the Wound”, remembering what I went through about a year ago on the subject of restoration. I am now realizing just how much healing God gave me in the last twelve months.

I am not brand new. I am mended. And I think that’s much better. Never thought I’d say that, but I am. I am mended – tattered and torn. But like the velveteen rabbit, I was made real by love. Not perfect, but real nonetheless.

How could I ask for more?

A list of my favorite posts coming up (and reflections on my trips to two seminaries)… but for now I’m all verklempt.

What I’m Reading: The Leadership Baton by Rowland Forman,Jeff Jones, & Bruce Miller

What I’m listening to: Kate Havnevik’s Melankton

My page looks like crap from a PC. The type is too large and for some reason the bottom half shows all the text being centered.

Per usual, it looks fine on a Mac.

I’ve seen some other blogger pages and they also seems to be acting weird.

Has blogger gone Mac only? Please say it’s true.

I haven’t had much to say this month. I’ve spent more time reading blogs than posting my own stuff. I am leaving Tuesday and will be gone for the rest of the week. (Hoping that one or both of the seminaries I am visting will give me some perspective. Maybe that’s why I don’t have anything to say…)

These blogs I enjoy reading on a semi-regular basis. (And they all pretty regular in their posting, which is nice.) Hope you enjoy as well:

On Worship:
Worship Matters
Eric Coomer
Common Saints

On the Emerging Church Movement:
The Oooze

Other Good Stuff on the Church:
Growing Edge Buzz
Every Thought Captive
The Merge
the church and postmodern culture: conversation

Miscellaneous
Heavenly Heartburn
An Eye for Redemption

In other random thoughts: why are most bloggers men? I have yet to find a great blog by a woman. Weird.

…Although I do sometimes find this one amusing.