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The Adventures of a Young Female Minister
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Inside Stranger

Website:

That Girl

Location:

Iowa, United States

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Most Entries are Friends Only Now... so if we aint friends yet... we might need to change that...

We humans have a horror of death in houses, & would not dream of going to a Lutheran church where grandmother is burried under the pew to keep you warm and alert during slow passages in the sermon when the building fund comes up. We hide hospitals and graveyards, sanitize the interiors of churches with cheerful posters announcing that we are God's people and he loves us lots. These posters do not mention some of the suprises that God has in store for us. I think we want a world without dead in it, so that it can be more easily bought, sold, and used up. Our casual attitude toward disappearing topsoil is difficult to reconcile with what we profess to believe. If we imagine the corpses of a thousand people we loved making a skin on that ground, we would tend it better.

To have a sense of the sacredness of a place involves becoming aware of life that inhabits and dead who sanctify it. Night drives over the prairies are useful in that regard. How can we sell the north eighty when we never really owned it? Who asked the racoon? Did the fox co-sign?
-- from "The Music of Failure" by Minnesota author and professor, Bill Holm.

I am a recent graduate of a Seminary in the Midwest, where I studied to become an ordained pastor and have earned my Masters of Divinity. I am currently in "wait" for a call and have moved to the state of my birth where I'm helping out my family, baking, attending church as a lay-person and singing in the choir.

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	4:	_iliketoscrap_, alaskans, lost_eps, quitsmokingnow2