on the Pilgrimage

Tonight was Game 3 of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Now, I've never been a big sports fan of any sort ... to watch a game, to play a game ... to have anything to do with a game. I'm the furthest thing from being a competitive person, period. My relationship with sports was always: X (me) -------------------------------------------------> X (sports) as far away from each other as possible. I remember those painful times in elementary school when the best became the Captain of the teams and the rest of us would line up, wishing just to be picked. Pick me, pick me, pickme, pickme, pickme ... and I was always the last to be picked. Hmm ... doesn't that mean that I was never really 'picked'? but got on a team by default??? Flash forward ... I'm a freshman in college. No more sports-minded than in Grade One. The difference is that I'm going to a USAmerican university, and what is the one thing that USAmerican high school are KNOWN for??? Football...

Not only am I single, but I also have no children. And you know what? In today's day, there is a part of me that is almost glad that I don't have children. Don't get me wrong ... I love children and a big part of my life is focused around them; around helping them to become all they were created to be. But to be a parent today, I'm not sure that is something I'd choose to do ~ I definitely would NOT do it alone, and to do it with a husband, even if we are on the same page and coming at the experience from the same direction ... I don't know if I'd be up for the challenges it holds today. Don't get me wrong ... I think I'd make a good parent ... but then again, I wonder. I have a lot of friends that have children, and with all that has been found out about raising children, I'm amazed at what I witness ... what the child is exposed to on a regular basis, what the child is allowed to do and decisions that the child is allowed to make. With all t...

Wow ... I can't believe I'm beginning something like this. I don't know much about the idea of 'blogging' but from what I've experienced and read of others, I like the idea. A place to comment, a place to reflect and remember, a place to share ... an on-line journal. So, I figure for the first entry, I wanted to make a statement on the name: Pneumanaut. I once wrote a response to a friend who asked me what it meant, and here's a revised version of my response there ... I am a huge fan of a writer by the name of Leonard Sweet (check out his site www.leonardsweet.com for info), and his books have radically changed who I am. He is a professor at Drew Theological University and has written MANY books and embarked on many projects. He is probably 5-10 years older than I am, and has an incredible way of looking at things. Well, I found out he was coming to our church as a workshop for the leadership in our church, and I HAD to get myself in there. I...