At the other place I write http://weblog.xanga.com/mavan I’ve been writing poetry. I don’t claim to be a fine poet, but it has been fun to try my hand at some daily poetry challenges during some of the month of April.
I’ve noticed something, though. Some of what I have written has been surprisingly somber–maybe even morbid.
I [...]
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Look Inside
Posted in Musings on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Our Way
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It would appear that our lives will be changing in significant ways in the next few months.
Yesterday, Zach and I visited South Side High School. The purpose of our visit was evaluative: Our quest was to make a final determination if this was the place for Zach to finish out his high school education. (Zach is currently a [...]
Gather ‘Round
Posted in Relationships, Spiritual Life, tagged family of God, prayer, worship on April 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
That phrase popped into my mind yesterday morning during worship celebration. (I really like that description we have begun to use at our church to describe what we do when we meet together on Sunday mornings.)
I have always loved the fact that our church sanctuary is roundish. The side sections on the main floor hug [...]
Life’s Earthquakes
Posted in Musings, Relationships, tagged "the big one", community, earthquake on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning a little after 5:30, a 5.2 magnitude earthquake rattled many Midwesterners out of bed…not literally, but it did surprise and jangle a few nerves.
It was time for us to get up and we were awake, just not out of bed yet. Around 5:30 we heard some sounds which we couldn’t identify–I thought it sounded like our [...]
From Park Lady to Grandma
Posted in Relationships, tagged neighbors on April 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Our back yard has a swing set (although, for a number of years, we have not hung swings out–it’s just a slide and a monkey bar of the horizontal ladder/walk-across-by-swinging-from-your-hands variety). We were blessed with this piece of equipment years ago when a faculty colleague of Michael’s offered it to us because his own kids [...]
Midnight Doubts
Posted in Musings, Spiritual Life, tagged doubt, fog, light, midnight, questions on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Right from the get-go, I know that midnight has something to do with this–I should be in bed. The mind is still going, and the body is not yet screaming for a reprieve from the current upright position. (All of this will be seen in a very different light when the 5AM wake-up alarm is blinking.)
I’ve just [...]
I Have a Question for You
Posted in Decisions, Politics, tagged presidential election on April 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“I have a question for you, when we’re done with this,” said one of my fifth-grade religious education students today. I admired his mature ability to discern that asking his question right then would have disrupted the flow of what we were talking about.
When we finished our lesson on The Lord’s Prayer, I returned to Keyontay and [...]
Don’t Let Them In
Posted in Musings, Spiritual Life on April 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had a dream last night. There was a man on my porch. I’d never seen him before (except he bore a strange resemblance to the young dad who, with his wife and four little children, sat across from us at Pizza Hut last night). I think I spoke to him from inside my house [...]
Missionary Church of the Future
Posted in Posts with Pictures, Spiritual Life, tagged Bible quizzing, denomination on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m a Bible quiz team coach. Our season ended with quiz finals on March 8. The looks on some of these faces and what I know of the character–not characters!–behind the looks make me think our denomination is in good hands for times to come.
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