sgatazmy

First, I wrote a new story. Since many of you don't check Psychfic but still like to look out for my work, I am posting a link again:

Title: Details and Demons
Author: Tazmy
Fandom: Psych
Characters: Mostly Shawn, some Gus
Description: Five times Shawn didn't go to confession and the one time he did

Second, strange as it may sound, I think Psych may have helped me with my whole faith issue.

After seeing Shawn go to confession, I was really feeling like I wanted to go to confession. I wrote a tag/missing scene to fill in the blanks for Shawn's confession, but it only got me thinking more about how I wanted to go. Unfortunately, I just couldn't go yesterday. Maybe next week?

Anyway....Today I was talking to an ex-Catholic about the episode. We'd normally never talk faith, but well, the episode brought it up with the whole confession thing so we started talking. And as I talked, I realized so much of why I'm Catholic. So with Church on the brain, I actually went tonight. Amazingly the homily was on confession and on not getting so down on seeing the things we/others do wrong that we miss what is right. What defiles us doesn't come from the outside, but the inside.

It was a beautiful service and it's hard to say how much better/lighter I felt afterward. I really want to go to confession next week, now.

So strangely enough, I'm feeling a lot better. I still want to talk to someone and to think a lot, but in the end, I am Catholic.