About
The Main Stuff:
52, married, two sons, follower of Jesus Christ
What I Like:
movies, reading, decorating, music, dvr’s, Texas, writing, the beach, entertaining, tex-mex, podcasts, talking, being a friend
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Wow – I am finally blogging. I have thought about blogging for a long time but just kept putting it off. One thing that has kept me from starting a blog before now is that I thought it would be technically difficult…but the good people at wordpress.com have made it easier than email, itunes, aim, word, excel and all the other mind blowing computer things that I do. The other thing that has delayed my dream of blogging from coming true is that I had to come up with a name for my blog. Unfortunately, the good people at wordpress could not help me there – except to tell me that my first five choices were already taken. It was hard but I finally settled on ”Grace Rules”. I chose that name because it is a principle that I am trying to put to work in my life. I have a history of falling more into the “law, absolute truth, this is what I believe, these are my convictions, rules” category but I am trying to break free of that. Now the question is…what will I blog about? Life, family, faith, books, movies, technology, the emergent conversation, church, friendships, serving, community……maybe I should have called my blog jabberwocky! LOL
January 22, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Thanks for the comment on Next Wave – ‘preciate the support as it’s been rough lately – send me your email address to bgthedoor@aol.com and I’ll make sure you get a release re: the next book – the themes I raised there are also in the book. It’s out February 2010 from Zondervan.
April 18, 2009 at 9:14 am
Hi –
I don’t know if you’ve been reading in your local paper about the ‘controversy’ concerning the Living Learning Communities at TCU. My daughter is Shelly Newkirk – and I have been searching all of the articles written on this issue and hence came across your eloquent essay about your son. Seeing that you are from Dallas really spoke to me that I am meant to introduce myself. I am a 49 year old mother of two daughters. My eldest daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes shortly after fleeing Hurricane Katrina while attending Tulane University. My youngest daughter came out as a lesbian after her first year at TCU. She is very involved in Gay rights on campus and honestly, I am scared to death for her. To say that the years since my daughters became college age have been more challenging than all of their growing up years combined, is an understatement. I am a Christian who is also a spiritual writer. I find my connection to Spirit to be the ONE thing that keeps me on an even keel. Knowing that we are all one in God no matter what ‘personae’ we place before the world, has really given me Faith and Hope that all is as it should be. Thanks again for your wonderful and honest essay on the ‘emergent’ website. It was a wonderful help for me. I’ve always told my daughters that sexual preference is genetic and God loves everyone. It’s the ‘ignorant’ souls among us who scare me to death.
blessings
sue
April 18, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Susan,
It is nice to meet you. I had heard something about the TCU living communities and now that I googled it I see that your daughter was the one that proposed the idea. I also saw that the idea has been nixed. That must be very disappointing. I am so sorry
I understand what you mean about being afraid for your daughter as we hate to see out children have to face opposition.
I am glad that you enjoyed the post I wrote and that it was helpful to you. I think your daughter is very fortunate that you were always so accepting of her. As you are, I am so sorry that there is so much hate and persecution towards homosexuals and hope that my small part of speaking out will cause others to really examine why they believe what they do.
Do you have a blog or a book that I could connect with?
Liz