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Category Archives: Musings
I think my animals are smarter than me…
There is something comforting about being surrounded by sleeping animals. It’s Saturday afternoon and my dog was sick last night and managed to deprive me of most of my sleep. It’s the hot part of the day, to hot to work outside, almost too hot to even want to go do the grocery shopping or [...]
Also posted in Chew puppy, Double Trouble Kittens, From my notebook, My life, The dog of many names Tagged animals, Life, rest, sleep 3 Comments
What comes from silence
I’ve been avoiding silence recently. Oh, perhaps I haven’t had my iPod blasting full blast, or a movie on, or television, etc., but I’ve drowned out silence with incessant internet surfing, or talking, or something, anything really to prevent silence.
This is odd. I used to crave silence, and something in me still does.
I [...]
Also posted in My life, Soul Care Leave a comment
Paradigm shift, identity crisis, etc.
I am a follower of the Man who walked the shores of Galilee and bid people to come and follow him. As I do my best to follow him, I reflect on what that call means in my context, perched here on the top of a hill in just outside the burby-burbs (does that make [...]
Also posted in Digging, My life, Simple things 3 Comments
Contentment in a Culture of Consumerism
My upstairs neighbor decided to have a mid-afternoon James Brown marathon today. I could only tell that it was James Brown after going outside, all I could hear inside my apartment was the bass. So I decided to sit on the deck and pretend I was at a cafe with no control over the music, [...]
Also posted in My life, Simple things, Soul Care 4 Comments
Faithfulness, not success.
Well, I am back from my many trips in November to California for brother’s engagement party and friend’s ordination, Atlanta for the National Youth Worker’s Convention, and then Asheville for Thanksgiving with the in-laws. Much fun, but too many night without my bed!
I thought I’d share something I was musing on…
It struck me the [...]
Also posted in Digging, Sabbath living, Soul Care, Youth Ministry 2 Comments
Eternity in disguise
I’ve been reading The Sabbath, by Abraham Joshua Heschel, a book which I’ve owned for several years and have yet to actually read. He starts out with a sort of polarization of time and space, saying:
Technical civilization is man’s conquest of space. It is a triumph frequently achieved by sacrificing an essential ingredient [...]
Also posted in Sabbath living, Theology 3 Comments
Writing resistance…
Just came across this post (thanks to Maggie Dawn) at Magpie Girl, where she perfectly describes the weird phenomenon that seems to accompany trying to actually write with a deadline.
Still, I have, in fact, had a little time to write….and I have, in fact, not done so.
Oh, to be sure, I’ve done writing-like things. [...]
My Next Thirty Years