Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Life Continues...




















Hello friends... and fiends...
Well, life moves on... and next Monday, I am officially moving into Adrian and my new apartment!
(without Adrian of course... heh heh...) And aren't I just pleased as punch about THAT!? I am. If you see the above pictures, it is a lovely little place, right on St. Mary's (the north end, close to Tache). We are in love with it, and I am so excited to make it my new home! It is sad that I have to make it my new home almost THREE MONTHS before Adrian can join me... but we love the place so much, that we were NOT willing to let it slip out of our fingers... so we jumped!
The picture of Adrian and I was taken last week by Kerri Woelke, our photographer! She is doing our wedding pictures, and last week we did our engagement shots... They are all so fantastic... and it just made me MORE excited for how lovely my wedding pictures will be... Kerri - you are SO GOOD!
So life pushes forward. Church is good - always a challenge! I have realized that this last year has been such a challenging one... it is amazing: is it always this rough your first year working at a church? Just wondering... because it seems I am really experiencing a wide gamet of things... and most of them - You got it! Challenging. I feel God has somehow created me for the challenge (hallelujah!) - however it does make you wonder... could I do this for a long time...? God truly, only knows...
I find lately, the time to carve out for reading, and quiet elusive. Mostly because I become impatient with it - or else when it is available to me, I don't seize my moment, and do it! I am quite ridiculous actually. And yet it is such a necessity! I have such a longing to just be a hermit sometimes (which is ironic, as I waste the quiet time I do have...) - so that I can sit and drink tea all day, reading, and writing... and being "contemplative" - not that any of my thoughts are profound, new, or un-explored... I just enjoy doing it! Rethinking what has been thought, and re-reading what has been written. How am I creating something new? What am I doing that the world hasn't experienced?
Really, if I think about it, everything I do is new, creative, and never done before. It doesn't take something unusual. I am quite positive that I have never written this sentence before, or sat here, in this moment before... and I am the only one who will do it, most likely... so I think I have quite good odds, that in every moment, of each day, I am creating history...
Makes me feel a little better about myself. Anyhow. Oh the universe and it's axis...

This will be all!
Enjoy your days... unfortunately, in the lovely city of Winnipeg, a slight cold chill has come upon us today (I think there is a high of 8) - so we are grinning, and bearing it! It is true we have been spoiled with the recent warm weather (the weekend was 22!!!! WOAH!) and so I will not complain about a nippy 8 degrees... it would be unnecessarily pessimistic, and whiny...

A holy kiss!!!

mariajane.






4 comments:

Courtney said...

Maria,
Hey Sunshine! I love the picture of you and Adrian! It is great to hear how things are going with you! I can't wait until the day Sheldon and I can come up and see you and Adrian in Winnipeg and spend some quality time together (Get to know you more) It seems crazy the last time I saw you (well the only time) will be two years ago in August... I know Adrian loves you more than anything and Adrian is one lucky guy! Anyway enjoy the move and enjoy getting ready to be a bride! You are going to look beautiful! I'm praying for you guys!
Courtney

Laura said...

You're so lovely Maria - I used to live in that area for a little over a year, so say if you had moved into your new place last year at this time, we could have been neighbours! Again! How funny is THAT?!?

You guys will love the area to bits. In Coronation Park, at Tache and St. Mary, they have live music all the time on Fridays. Dust Rhinos, Men in Kilts, whatever. And when they don't have a band playing, you can always find elderly people playing games of croquet (is that how you spell it?) and people laying around in the sun.

Lori said...

Your place looks so nice! I'm so happy for you!!!
Hear hear on your thoughts on church. "could I do this for a long time?... is it always this rough? I'm I really cut out for this?" all good questions and ones I've also thought. Maybe I will just work at Home Hardware the rest of my life, who knows? Not that I'll ever stop being the church though.
And your thoughts on being contemplative. Maria, if you sat and were contemplative for a while, I'd be scared of what you'd come up with, becuase I think you are pretty profound even when you're NOT talking time "out" to be contemplative! You amaze me sometimes!
Love!

tamara noelle said...

Great pics, Maria. Glad to hear things are going well for you. Miss ya! God bless!