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Musical Melanie

Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been trying to post a little photographic day brightener, but have had problems with the pictures uploading/captions staying with the images, etc.  So, if you care to have your day brightened elsewhere, you’ll need to visit my other blogging spot at http://weblog.xanga.com/mavan
I’ll be absent from here for a few days…relaxing…refreshing…rejuventating…returning later.

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Letting Your Fingers Do the Talking

Posted in Musings, tagged , on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Are there things you’d say/have said through your fingers at the keyboard putting words on the screen that you’d never say to someone’s dear face?
I just finished replying to an email that was a solicited critique of a brochure I’d put together for a ministry area at church. I could feel the “It’s mine!” (foot [...]

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Letting Go + Hanging On = Growth

Posted in Musings, Spiritual Life, tagged , , , on July 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Evaluate.  Reflect.  Meditate.  At the risk of sounding like a question in the game of Tri-Bond, what do these three activities have in common?
They require time for a thoughtful look at something. 
Last night marked the end of a six week small group training series in which I’ve been participating.  Each of us 40+ participants in these [...]

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What I Heard When I Listened

Posted in Musings, tagged , , on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In general, I talk too much. 
“Too much” is a relative term.  Sometimes, it is too much in comparison with the amount others have a chance to contribute to a conversation.  Sometimes, it is too much about one subject or happening.  Sometimes, it is too much relative to the amount of listening I do.
In the past twenty-four [...]

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Such Stirring Words

Posted in Musings, tagged , on July 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I’m supposed to be cooking brats (that is, bratwursts–not naughty children).
Before I do, I just want to recommend an Independence Day activity for anyone who has time left tonight before or after fireworks or that backyard/lakeside grilling of meat: read the Declaration.
We spent this day with my family at the farm in MI where I [...]

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Expatriates All

Posted in Musings, Spiritual Life, tagged , , , on July 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Foreigners.  Expatriates.
An expatriate is one who is not living in his homeland.  According to the dictionary, fine shades of this word’s meaning allow for that status to be by choice or by forced exile. 
We are foreigners in that we are strangers in this place in which we live.  We don’t usually act like it.  We [...]

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