Just One Yeoman
 

    Why this site, and why this name? For a long while now, I’ve been quite the opinionated little housewife and had the feeling that though I was just one woman, God sent me to change the world in my own little way. The more I understand of the wonders of human beings, and of God’s decision to mediate His graces to the world through the foolish little things, the more bold I become in just being myself as transparently as possible. I am amazed at the way He writes His own story through ours without violating or negating the reality (usually messy, often worse) of our ‘unique and unrepeatable’ personhood. I am indebted, of course, to Pope John Paul II, for his insistence that the world needs a rediscovery of the human person, and needs the whole, nitty gritty lives of people with the courage to just be whoever they really are in all the limitation and seeming contradiction of their own ‘radical specificity’.

    The word ‘yeoman’ began to appeal to me as I entered a ‘back to the land’ phase recently. Though I am city born and bred and have no aptitude for this sort of thing, I now by God’s infinite sense of humor am actually sort of a ‘small farmer who cultivates his own land’, and certainly one who ‘performs great and laborious service’ or ‘is an attendant in a noble household’. I've actually now milked goats, so all things are possible!

    The “JOY” graphic in the corner has to do with a talk I am fond of giving on the theme ‘Love Condescends’. Basically, love allows me to make myself very small in order to become a seed of truth within the being of another person – thus opening a window within him for the joyous intrusion of God’s liberating light and grace through my own ‘radical specificity’. It can also be understood to say that my joy is radiating from my contentment at being just one woman making one home in one plain old place within the vast universe.  At any rate, I am undertaking to use the internet’s capacity to make of myself a place within which you may roam freely and partake as you like of all that is mine to give. I hope you will make yourself at home and holler if there’s anything I can do to make you more comfortable.