be excited! this is a tangible post full of concrete information =)

Hello friends!

You will be happy to know that I am taking a short break from my obscure thoughts on the inner life in order to bring you some solid news: I am coming home! I am writing from Paris, at the house of the gracious and generous Vermes family, and will be sleeping my way across the Atlantic on Tuesday. I have been counting down the days and hours until I get to see the shiny streets of Lynnwood again... they are paved with gold, right?

My return has come sooner than originally planned, but everything has been brought to completion for me at Taize and I know it's the right time to head home.

1. I realized I do not want to be a nun. I would rather have Top Ramen and a movie.
2. There is so much love in me that can't be expressed through the thin wires that connect a phone to its box or a computer to the wall.
3. There is a limit to the number of God-lessons I can learn in theory without actually putting them into practice.
4. There is also a limit to how many struggles I can overcome without moaning to all of you face-to-face.
5. I miss you.

Obviously this is a condensed version, but I hope you're tracking.

So, with a circle of friends waving goodbye at Taize, I left the monastery on a bus full of nuns and arrived in Paris to a warm welcome from the Vermes and a banana split. Nuns and sugar-coated bananas in the same evening? How does one girl get so lucky...? :)

Please pray for safe, hassle-free travel and a speedy journey to Sea-Tac. Thank you for so many prayers and notes and emails and phone calls... my cup overflows.

Catch you on the flip side!

(To those who have been writing to El Abiodh, now is the time to return to my normal email acccount. Thank you!)