Thought of the day:

This is my attempt to respond to Pilgrims' Progress' request for an essay (she's an Aussie teacher, eh?) on how my health issue has altered my "perception on life." (I hope I pass)

This is, of course, a personal reflection. I offer it FWIW.

One sentence.

8 words.

A memoir.

One 8 letter sentence, that describes your life right at this moment.

Try it...

 My life right now:

Very complex and full of ups and downs.

8 words, your life.

Now you try...

When I joined wondercafe a few days ago, I went directly to this very page. Convinced that my love for writing would give me something great to write about, some great introduction to the wondercafe community.

Let me tell you a quick story before I start the discussion.

I was online, on Facebook, at my church, sitting with a group of friends. I did the routine check for messages and notifications, and found that someone had sent me a friend request.

Amy Sullivan wants to be your friend. Confirm or Ignore. 

Who's Amy Sullivan? I didn't know her, so I messaged her asking how she knew me. Luckily enough, Amy was online and quickly messaged back, saying she knew Gabby, a friend of mine.

Gabby happened to be sitting next to me.

The last time I wrote on this site I was concerned with the “meaning of life." The theme continues in this post, but only because the questions I have been asking myself and others has consistently led back to one answer, despite the variety of questions. I have been asking myself why I believe what I did when I was an evangelical Christian and why others continue to believe what they do - in relation to that which we cannot perceive by the five senses. Granted, there are many of those who simply do not engage in such self-reflection.

The fallacy that we all abide by one paradigm (or at least that we should) has led many Christians, both those of the conservative typology as well of the “floundering liberal” (Falwell’s words, not mine), to believe that non-believers have no ultimate purpose or meaning in life.

I was not sure where to put this as it seems to fit into a lot of categories.

There was a woman missing for 12 years she is 52 now so she went to live in the woods when she was 40.

The full story is here: 

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090119/world/20090119_switzerland_woods_woman

One wonders what could cause a sane woman to go live in the woods.   We can speculate: