Here they are at last, pictures from my birthday celebrations. Thank you to each and every one of you who made my birthday so special. With all of you, my life is truly overflowing with riches immeasurable. I thank God for you. 365-09 #334
I’m cleaning out the virtual post-it notes on my desktop so here are some of the quotes I’ve put on them that I’ve really liked. (This one I really like for going to Kenya and the poetry that will result from it.)Take me to the places on earthThat teach you how to danceThe places where …
The exchange paradigm puts us in a prison. The unfortunate thing is some people never realize their spirits are locked away. They sit by the bars and think their small cell is all there is. They don’t realize there are meadows, mountains, and flowers to run through. Thus, the first step out is to realize …
On Monday, I am helping Adria and Kim in the library since there are no students and I won’t be substituting somewhere else. One of the projects they would like me to tackle is making READ posters, posters with pictures of the teachers like the celebrity READ Posters you see at the library. This involves …
I thought this might be of interest to any of you particularly interested in my trip to Kenya. The current countdown is nine days. That scares me a bit just to think about as I’m not ready to go. Blessedly, there is no school for students next week so I won’t be subbing and will …
I really liked Francis De Sales view that you can have unity with God without visions but you cannot have unity without action. The text called it a grounded mysticism, a term I appreciated. A friend posted a question on facebook last night asking whether the gospel is what you believe or what you do. …
I went out tonight and celebrated my birthday with friends after tap dancing. A friend I ran into asked if they were family, and I said yes, they were, they are my tap family, we’ve been together for quite some time. It was so much fun, we had a great time and as it went …
Why do we stay in a self-made prison? Why do we stay in a place that shuts out life from our souls? Why do we hold grudges? Don’t we understand that the chains we hold for someone else weighs us down in the floods of grief and bitterness? When we hold grudges, we see the …
My friend, Wess, spoke on the last few lines of the Lord’s prayer this morning in church. In discussing forgiveness, he said some thought provoking things that have been in the back of my mind ever since. At one point, he talked about the story of the servant who was forgiven an unimaginably large debt …
