Sad News

This week we received some very sad news thus my lack of blog entries. Alvaro and I learned a few weeks ago that we were pregnant...a blessing we have been praying for for years. On Friday, we learned that we've miscarried. I believe everyone can understand that we have felt let down, sometimes enraged and confused. However, with the love, prayers and genuine empathy, we are learning to maybe not understand yet but to believe that we will be able to try again and perhaps still have a child. thank you to everyone in our lives who love us and have embraced us with their loving care. Perhaps some time next year we will be able to tell you all that we are carrying a healthy baby. In the meantime, we look to this Thanksgiving weekend to be with family and to give thanks for our friends, our marraige and future we have together. All our lives are a mysteries aren't they? It's a mystery how we endure loss, sadness and what sometimes seems like events that should crush us. God allows us to feel all those things that we humans feel and gives us the freedom to work through things honestly and with faith in whatever form it takes. I wish for all of you to have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday in which you take a moment to give thanks for your lives even in the midst of what hurts. blessing to you all.

Chasing the Trolley

I love to ride The McKinney Avenue Trolley between downtown and uptown Dallas. I don't like driving in Uptown. I get all nervous and stuff when I have to drive on the trolley tracks. Am I in the right lane? Is this lane about to end? Am I going the wrong way on a one way? YIPE!!! Another reason I don't drive well in Uptown Dallas may be becuase I'm always scoping out the trolley to see if it's the one with our FUMC Dallas ad on the side. I love to look at it! I know the people in the pictures and I know their love and connection to their church...and I just love the way the thing looks. My friend, Brian Owens, designed it and I can't quit looking at it. Anyway, I guess if I practiced driving in Uptown more, I would begin to feel more accustomed to the streets, which restaurant is where and how to get to Tom Tom (yum! Great white teas they have) Maybe my favorite thing about the trolley is the visual connection it provides between uptown and downtown Dallas. So many members and visitors to First United Methodist Church of Dallas live in uptown and downtown but are all members of one community in each other's midst. This place connects the relevant and the traditional and is inclusive of everyone. Get on the trolley and come CONNECT!!!