Beth's Page

My favorite quote(s)...

"But if the question of faith resists an answer, a Big, Final Conclusive Answer, it requires a response, a modest but passionate, humble but heartfelt response." -John D. Caputo

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain."

7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
-1 John 4:7-8

If I could live anywhere... (why?)

I would live everywhere, I hope to not stay in one place for too long, I want to live with all kinds of people in all kinds of places... Africa, Jerusalem, inner city areas, India... pretty much anywhere

Others describe me as...

caring, thoughtful, happy, eternally optimistic :-)

I most feel the presence of God when...

I am surrounded by water, playing with children, or laughing with other people.

I'm passionate about...

changing the world and loving people.... but I think they are one in the same :-)

In the future, I will be...

an ordained minister and social worker, serving creation in whatever capacity I am being called to do so.

A person/people who has/have helped me grow in my faith...

Ann Pederson, my professor and advisor. She's let me doubt, ask questions, and taught me oh so many things. She has always believed in me and pushed me so that I can believe in myself.

Because of my faith, I...

do my best to love all people as Christ did by serving all people, because all people are God's people.