hello again, dear ones! there have been a lot of thoughts floating around and asking to be written down this week, but it's been hard to articulate them. i'm home again, though, and it's good to be in my own futon... i think my brain is a bit too fried to really say anything coherent, but here are a few topics i hope to touch on in the next few days: ...the recurring call i'm hearing to bring the issues of injustice and poverty to the forefront of the church... ...the irony of giving up things that we cling to so stubbornly and, in the process of letting go, suddenly discovering freedom... ...the role i want accountability from y'all to play in my life as the new year begins... ...the surprising way that this whole blogging adventure introduces and re-introduces people to each other's paths... ...the novel "cold moutain," which i think just might become my book of the year... on that note, i'm going to rest my body now. but i wanted to let you know that i haven't fully disappeared... love and peace, amyjoy