so, sitting in church yesterday (i know, many of you thought i was a heathen, but i do subscribe to some religious orthodoxy on occasion), i was struckby these really weird parallels. i know that many of you think my life revolves around being gay (and it does play a huge part) and that i make too much of its impact (which i disagree with), but i was once again struck by its centrality.

my pastor was preaching on the text in luke where jesus gets separated from his parents and they look all over for him and finally found him at the temple and he turns to them and says "didn't you know this was where i would need to be?" but in a different sort of translation. and when i hear this passage i am always reminded of jesus scholar john miller's thesis that jesus didn't know he was divine until his baptism at age 30 and that he surmises that this passage points to jesus' own difficulty in dealing with his parents and himself over his own divinity.

i in no way want to make it seem as if being gay is equivelant to being divine (although some have made such a statement), but the parallels in this struggle over identity and over parental misunderstanding of calling were identity were just too weird.

anyway, it was a whirl-wind of a weekend- church included. dinner at the keg, drinks @ heidi's, coffee/globe saturday morning, shopping, dinner party @ bill's (so much fun!), clubbing, sunday church, lunch with shannon, a round of golf and then drinks at earl's... it was a lot of boose, too little sleep but oh so much fun!

more later...