I am a Born Again Catholic

My name is Erin. I have been a devoted wife to an incredibly amazing guy for 20 years this year. I am the mother of girls, a 17 and 14-year-old. They are spoiled but not rotten and everyone knows it. I am an educator and have been in the world of EDU for 15 years now...which, as I type it out, makes me realize I have arrived at a certain age where risk-taking is not for the faint of heart and launching 3 new endeavors while fulfilling the previous endeavors seems insane, not comfortable...but I will get to all of that someday. I suppose I could have just written I stay busy and left it there. I typically say exactly what's on my mind as it comes to mind, as you just witnessed with the previous lines of streamed consciousness. And if you are still following me along after that start, I am a Christian. 

I am starting a new blog because I converted to Catholicism a little over a year ago and have, for the last 3 months, been nightly hand journaling a sort of daily log to keep track of my joy and despair. I had come off of a very tough year the year before the conversion which sort of made the timing of everything around me nuts. So, maybe this blog is a way to process the past year and a half while also trying to unpack the beauty around me that I am having difficulty keeping to myself. My friends are not necessarily sure about this move to Catholicism, but I have never been more sure about anything and sooooo many more things make more sense now and it is sort of all making me burst at the seams and I am fully enamored with everything, and how much bigger my entire world just got, and how little I know and how much studying and uncovering I still have to do. 

I just thought, if I could help anyone learn more about Catholicism as I do too, that maybe it could be a tool for outreach and evangelizing. I have about 2 years on you, but I still feel like such a baby Catholic. However, my fervor and zeal for this newness and the spectacularly overwhelming emotions I have surrounding my religion and our God are anything from infantile. Jonathan Roumie, the Actor who plays Jesus in The Chosen and a fellow Catholic, told Bishop Barron that he felt like a born-again Catholic with his renewed reflection of the faith he has always practiced. I love the term for me, too, as I was already a born-again Christian. 

So I suppose the purpose of writing and sharing is to study the word of God, the history of The Church,  and the purpose of Catholicism to promote perpetual unity in Christ Jesus. Together as One...again.  I welcome the gentle comments and real questions, as iron sharpens iron here. Every pointed question I asked while going through RCIA was met with a gentle reshaping of the information I thought I knew.