INAUGURATION DAY

With millions of others, across this nation and around the world, I witnessed Barack Obama take the Oath of Office and become the new President of the United States. So many hopes are pinned on this man, hopes for change, significant change--- a sea change for this country, for this diverse and not always unified people. In some ways, for instance that he is mixed-race and so truly represents our current demographics, he appears to be just the right individual for this time. In other ways he makes conservative hearts cringe with his liberal agenda. Time will tell, but tonight there will celebration parties all over.

In the meantime:

I just talked to HAWC, and though they were impressed with me in general, they offered the position of Volunteer Coordinator to another, who had more experience--- had directed volunteers for a larger program than the Haven, and that person is in the process of accepting and working out start date and other details.

So here's hoping & praying that I find something suitable pretty soon--- I'm ready, willing, and able to go back to work any time now. Tomorrow I have an interview for Special Events Assistant for Catholic Charities North in Lynn.... maybe that will be the right thing. I'll keep looking.

Also:

I've been continuing my investigations of Reiki and Yoga in light of Christianity and Catholic Church teaching, and have come upon this from the Vatican:

"The majority of the 'great religions' which have sought union with God in prayer have also pointed out ways to achieve it. Just as the Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in these religions, neither should these ways be rejected out of hand simply because they are not Christian. On the contrary, one can take from them what is useful so long as the Christian conception of prayer, its logic and requirements are never obscured. It is within the context of all of this that these bits and pieces should be taken up and expressed anew…" - Excerpt from "Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on Some Aspects of Christian Meditation" by Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)