The Papal’s Choice

The Papal’s Choice
thanks to kdot for this cute play on words

Okay… so all of this Pope selection stuff, is moving me further away from the Catholic church. I didn’t think it was possible to move FURTHER away after the countless tales of Catholic priests and little boys. But all of this mysticism, 9 day mournings, white smoke – black smoke ballots, secret caucuses, burning of private memoirs, 18 minutes to appearance in the window… HERE IN THE 21st CENTURY… is buggin me out. It sounds more like voodoo to me than anything else.

Here’s how the first papal election went down:

Jesus: Hey Peter…
Peter: Yes, Jesus?
Jesus: You’re the rock. And upon you I’ll build my church. Okay?
Peter: Wow… okay… I’ll do my best Jesus.
Jesus: I believe in you.
*apostolic handshake/pound exchanged*

So…. where did we get white smoke black smoke, etc. from? Humans are crazy. We’re always trying to assign this surreal craziness to everything we don’t understand. Trying to miracl-ize everything so that we don’t have to explain it. God made it that way. Yeah? well guess what… he made EVERYTHING. Even the stuff we think we can explain away.

*shaking my head at the human race*

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Spring Summer Feeling

Spring Summer Feeling

I woke up this morning feeling more rested than I thought I would. I had good dreams last night about wealth and leisure time and frivolity. I didn’t even realize it was time to wake up. So here I am now deciding what to wear. Forecast says that it’ll be 59 degrees tonight. These things are important because the trend these past few days has been warm warm days and nights to chill you to the bone. I won’t get caught out there again. But I do have this need to bring spring and summer in. I’m welcoming it for once in my life. Yes, despite the discomfort and the sweatiness and the unbelievable heat and humidity… I’m looking forward to seeing all my trees turn two tone with deep green and light green. I’m looking forward to running to the beach with Jessica in July. I’m looking forward to seeing a friend or two walk down the aisle. I have much to wish the ushering in of the sun for. So I guess I’ll begin today.

As I’m sitting here, I can hear pounding coming through my ceiling. I guess I’m not the only one with a spring feeling… *tee hee*. I’m learning not to hate… and to congratulate. Although I’m envious.

Off to start my day. I hope it takes me somewhere I need to be.