Josie's Journal Journey: The Third

I like to go to thrift stores. Seeing the things that people loved and spent money on makes me feel like I'm sifting through a treasure chest full of the past. On one of these trips, I found a rare empty journal for sale and my friend bought it for me. 

On the cover was the painting pictured above by the amazing Edward Hopper. I had to have it and I had to use it. These are some of the less embarrassing things that I pulled from what I wrote way back then:

• A single thought could change someone's whole world. Shouldn't we want that?
• Sermon: Chapel on "Words & Worth," 4 December 2013
  • "Don't downplay the weight of your words."
• "Love set you going like a fat, gold watch." - Sylvia Plath
• Sermon: Chapel on "Advent," 4 December 2013
  • "Desire the work that needs to happen in the world."​
• "What a paradox, putting God in a box."
• Sermon: Chapel, 22 January 2014
  • "The only thing we can do with our lives is give them away."
• "The Church may be a whore, but the Church is my mother." - Martin Luther King Jr.
• Sermon: Liturgical Chapel on "Family Norms," 30 January 2014
  • "Blessed are you when you're at the end of your rope."
• Why do we have to tear it apart if we know we won't be able to put it back together?
• We feel the need to know everything and it's making us miss the point of it all.​
• Sermon: Chapel on "Mark 4," 5 February 2014
  • "Reach out to the 'hopeless' causes, not just the 'deserving' or the 'ready.'"