Friday, November 28, 2008
Tiny Tim said it best
Category: Life
Every year to prepare for Christmas, the kids, Diallo and I always watch Henson’s Muppet’s Christmas Carol. I love the original Charles Dickens classic and I remember watching the theater production in college. I love the story. But the Muppet version is something as a family we [...]
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Friday, November 14, 2008
Hmm, What am I thinking….
Current mood: contemplative
Category: Life
I have been spinning Mary Chapin Carpenter’s cd The Calling. (I am also reading a book by Robert Coles, more L’Engle stuff, and Dostoevsky so not all pressure for my ranting here falls on MC2) I really am provoked by her cd. Maybe it’s one of those [...]
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I love the Nouwen Society. Henri J. Nouwen is one of my favorite writers. This came in an email to me this week.
(This is an art piece, “Trash or Treasure” by Karen Garrett at the Dallas Arboretum - karengarrettartist.com)
On the Journey Toward Radical Hospitality
written by VICTORIA S. SCHMIDT
My friend Isaiah, is a missionary who works in [...]
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Monday, September 01, 2008
In Memorium 09-06-07
Category: Life
I can’t remember the first time that I read anything by Madeleine L’Engle. But I would imagine that it was A Wrinkle in Time like most people. I do however remember vividly when I fell in love with Madeleine L’Engle’s writing. I read that same book aloud [...]
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Saturday, July 12, 2008
How does a geek do mission trip packing?
Category: Life
Well, let’s be honest. I live on my laptop with journaling and blogging and studying and emailing those I love. Abbey is counting on the webcam and yahoo messenger or Skype. What could be better on a week long trip than to video call [...]
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Ken Gire records some dialogue from the courtroom scene from the 1994 movie “Nell” in the opening of his book, The Reflective Life: Becoming more Spiritually Sensitive to the Everyday Moments of Life. (In the translated version of Nell’s speech) Mr. Guire writes,
You have big [...]
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Well, for the first time in a very long time, I am preparing to fly solo from my family for a week. I am signed up to help with apartment ministry through our church. At first I confess it was utterly terrifying to think of Mat and Abbey and Diallo baching it for a [...]
Filed under: Christianity, life on July 9th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
She has sheltered me
Like mother and father should
She has raised me child wild and creative
She allowed me to imagine and speak
She gave me wings and dreams
The cost was rich, red, and river like
She is young and lovely still
She has much to learn; still naive
History tells of her blind eyes and sword drawn
She lifts her torch [...]
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“The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the words of grace and hope in their bones and sinews and not wear them like fancy dress.” -Katherine Paterson
(the lovely older lady is Ms. Paterson the author of numerous books including A [...]
Filed under: Christianity, art, life, purpose, wonder, writing on June 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
I really love this song. Although for my interp, I am not so crazy about the line that says, “I broke them all for you”, but if you left that out the following song would speak to purpose for me. It speaks to “story” for me and what I love writing, reading , knowing, and remembering [...]
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