Confession 101

I’ve had a blog on Google for about a year.. but now I have taken the leap to Typepad. So…. it has taken me about three days to get it mapped to my own domain name. It was a convuluted mess…. the name I wanted to use… confession101.com was parked with my other site… http://confessions101.com and figuring out how to unpark.. redirect…. and well… with my limited understanding of all this - it took some time.  Not to mention loss of my cool, calm, everything will work out composure.

I didn’t swear exactly…so we are safe on that account. A bit testy…. uh yeah, we will admit to that one.

This morning we had confession…. I have to say it went quite well. It kind of helps publishing a book on the subject, reading books on the subject, thinking day and night how to make it a bit more bearable. I mean - when I think of confession - the old way.. it was more like putting myself in the stocks and beating myself up with an ugly stick. (Ugly stick was an expression my brother Roy used to describe my brother Ellery after a night on the town that didn’t go so well). Anyway to me it was one of those…. “You gotta do it…. you’ll feel better….. but I hate it anyway… sort of experiences.

Now I think confession is much more about improving myself both spiritually and in every other way. Perhaps I could say - looking within - so that I become more totally ME. A concentration on how to move into more JOY… happier relationships…and LOVE that is without strings or expectations.

I’ve been so anxious to get this blog up and running  because I am just brimming over with ideas that I want to share and I hope others will share with as well. Confession is not the hottest topic on the web … but it could be.. if we really knew how it could take us into a whole new level of growth and life.

To me it is a Sacrament that is just starting to unfold.