One. The Christian faith is a complex thing. And difficult. I won't claim to be any good at all this. But I do have some thoughts, which I hope to share with you as I discover them for myself. Don't be fooled if I start sounding knowledgeable from across the internet: the great ideas come from God and I'm really bad at listening. For anyone who must know, I'm nondenominational, but most of my good friends are Catholic. So that's the angle I'm coming from.
Two. We don't talk about singleness nearly enough. Being in love is pretty great, I hear. Singleness is just that dark spot before you meet ~the one~ and once these trials are over you will be the better for it. Or if you're super holy and awesome you enter the religious life. But what about those of us who feel called to contented singleness... maybe just for a while for some, but maybe for like... ever? As all our friends start families of their own, we may find ourselves getting a bit... isolated. Let's talk.
Three. Life just feels so cluttered. I've been drawn to minimalism since I was in high school, but it often feels incompatible with my artist nature. However, I'm always reevaluating whether I need the things I have, and I sometimes do weird experiments to test the ideas, like the year I didn't use shampoo at all. Also, minimalism and blogging. It happens. By the way, Jesus taught us not to be attached to our possessions. Minimalism might look very "zen" from the outside, but that doesn't have to be the heart of it.
So those are going to be the main focuses of this blog. I have another blog that I've kept mostly for my own records since high school, but I wanted to separate these three things from my more journal-like rambles because these topics are relevant to people who don't really care about the details of my life.
