[Magdalen] When you come to a fork in the road take it

[Marion Thompson]

I'll try to shut up about this barring any change in the situation but 
when I arrived at the door of St. P's I knew it was the right place for 
me.  I was home.  Modestly A-C in its Fifties A-frame and outstandingly 
welcoming, it was a year before I became aware of its deeprooted 
problem, the faction that works in the shadows. Despite what people 
might think, I can attach to a different sort of place if it is honestly 
that from the outset when we meet.  I like that: ' I bend the knee of my 
heart.'   There are a lot of lessons for me in this, but I won't accept 
all the blame.  Trouble is that all the suitcases in one's huge pile of 
baggage spill out their contents at these times

Marion, a pilgrim

On 11/8/2015 9:41 PM, ME Michaud wrote:
> I think of myself as a stealth spike in a low-church parish. In the mildest
> and most symbolic way, I identify with the sephardim.
>
> The thing is: the church I attend now is so much healthier overall that I
> hardly miss the practice.
>
> Who you hand your cure over to ... that's an important decision. I've known
> the rector since he was a deacon. I know he's responsible and
> respectful and mature and emotionally honest and he takes his work very
> seriously. So I bend the knee of my heart. And worship and pledge without a
> whiff of regret.
>
> You might be surprised to see how your spiritual life flowers when the
> toxic church stuff isn't there any more. Give it a try.
> -M
>