The View Up Here

A heads up that I am letting go of the "fredinthecan.com" domain, and I will run this blog either with the blogger URL, or set up a new blog and link to this one. Please keep an eye out for the changes. Thank you for reading!

From early October : I took a walk along the Jordan River (in Utah, not the Holy Land ), so grateful to be near a body of running water after 2.5 years of l iving in California's drought. This hymn spru ng to mind, and I had the good sense to jot it down. Water's Edge Today I prayed by the water's edge and sang to my Creator, Lover God. Into my heart I invited Him to rest his head and sing His songs to me. I asked Him for his grace and strength that I may suffer with and for his Son the realities of life worth living the path of merciful outpouring, emptying myself that I may be filled with Him alone.

Life in a new city, a new job, a new home - all of this and more have kept me occupied and not blogging. The third week of Advent is well under way, and in a week's time, I'll be on a plane headed to the Land Where I Was Birthed for Christmas and New Year's Eve. Not only will I be visiting my dear family and friends, I will also be continuing my discernment by staying overnight at the Carmel in Concord, NH , and visiting with the Poor Clares of Boston , located in Jamaica Plain. (Incidentally, Jamaica Plain is where my parents first settled when they moved from Elmira, NY to Boston back in the early '50s.) A few words on the full-time job I've held since August - I'm the Office Manager for Mt. Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Salt Lake City, UT, working for the Catholic Diocese of SLC. Certainly not rocket science, but definitely a ministry - in more ways than I would've thought. I've come to see and know a deeper vein of human experience and suffering...