Happy Birthday to Me:)

I was able to travel to Sibiu, Romania for a few days around my birthday with a friend. The city is the cultural capital of Europe for this year and it is beautiful! I loved being in a city with a slower pace of life and beauty!

Shaved Head Spirituality

I want to share with you a passage from Brennan Manning’s The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus quoted from Paul Tillich that jumped out to me this past week.

Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness and it is as though a voice were saying: “You are accepted. You are accepted by that which is greater than you….Do not seek for anything; do not perform for anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.”
If that happens to us, we experience grace. After such an experience we may not be better than before, and we may not believe more than before. But everything is transformed.

As I think about my decision to shave my head, I am amazed. What may seem like a momentary lapse in judgment, has opened my eyes to many new things. God's grace is alive in my life--accepting me as I am.

Spirit Week 2007

For Spirit Week this year I decided to shave my head for "Crazy Hair Day". To make further use of my bald head, I came as a Buddhist monk for "Around the World Day" and Mr. Clean for "Fictional Character Day". It certainly gave the students and staff quite a shock-and still does I suppose. I am enjoying the shorter shower times and expect a great savings on shampoo!