Author: Firestar

Introductory note: if you’ve read more than one or two posts on this site, you may have noticed that female pronouns–she and her–are sometimes used when describing God and not male pronouns only. If you’ve been wondering why this is so, this post will go a long way towards explaining it.

If you were raised in the Church–as I was–you grew up with a definite idea that God was a dude.

You know what I mean. I think we all imaged “him” as a grandfather-type. A man, say in his 70’s, with a long gray beard and wearing a pretty spiffy robe.

A robe that looked like a cross between the one worn by your favorite priest and that awesome one that Charlton Heston was sporting when they shot The Ten Commandments.

It took a full thirty years or so for me to realize that the way I imaged God…

A Boundaries Meme Break

Boundaries: “Stonewalling consists of • refusal to negotiate a conflict in good faith; • Refusal to discuss honestly one’s motivations; • Refusal to listen to another point of view with openness; • Refusal to compromise; • Refusal to collaborate; • Refusal to support the other person’s plans; • Refusal to accept influence.”