for Sarah
She of the soft brown hair
Bright brown eyes
Math problem sighs
Puppy dog highs
Pink lip gloss
She of the cartwheels,
Handsprings
Trampoline tumbling
Shy-brave smiling
Flip-flop flipping
Flowered shorts
She of the tie-dye
Shirts,
Daddy flirts
Besties texting
Cookie baking
"Iced-chai-latte" thirst
Queen of Latin First
(and Second) Declensions
Our third
Is 12 today
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Saturday, August 23, 2014
North Pond Hermit
Interesting story, link below, about a man who lived a quarter of a century alone in the woods in Maine.
While socially a hermit, it's interesting to consider that he hovered so close to civilization always and was completely dependent on the takings and leavings of the civilization he rejected -- food, books, clothes, radios. An isolated consumer who even, finally, seemed to have lost a realistic sense of self or personhood. It's as if, in total isolation from intimacy he lost perspective about his own personhood and community, both.
When we lack intimacy and community with others, do we lose intimacy even with our own person?
Discussing the article, my mom and I chuckled at He-of-the-Propane-Tanks-and-Cheetos calling Thoreau a "dilettante."
Aside from all of this, it's interesting to think about re-entering the modern world after so long from it. His comments on the blaring lack of "nuance" as he re-entered our culture are interesting. Can you imagine the starkness of a lack of nuance and subtlety faced by this guy as he was driven down any town street or, for goodness sakes, when he turned on the tv?
And I am also fascinated that every winter he woke himself every morning at 2 am to be sure to stay warm
What a strange 25 years for the people in that community!
The Strange Tale of the North Pond Hermit
While socially a hermit, it's interesting to consider that he hovered so close to civilization always and was completely dependent on the takings and leavings of the civilization he rejected -- food, books, clothes, radios. An isolated consumer who even, finally, seemed to have lost a realistic sense of self or personhood. It's as if, in total isolation from intimacy he lost perspective about his own personhood and community, both.
When we lack intimacy and community with others, do we lose intimacy even with our own person?
Discussing the article, my mom and I chuckled at He-of-the-Propane-Tanks-and-Cheetos calling Thoreau a "dilettante."
Aside from all of this, it's interesting to think about re-entering the modern world after so long from it. His comments on the blaring lack of "nuance" as he re-entered our culture are interesting. Can you imagine the starkness of a lack of nuance and subtlety faced by this guy as he was driven down any town street or, for goodness sakes, when he turned on the tv?
And I am also fascinated that every winter he woke himself every morning at 2 am to be sure to stay warm
What a strange 25 years for the people in that community!
The Strange Tale of the North Pond Hermit
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Small Cool One
Liquid fur
Flows, crossing concrete and curb
Streaming through green grass
Silky, threading disaster
Needling cars, boys, and falling leaves
Skirting tires and mailboxes
Dashing at trees
To mix with light and shadow
Of brown leaf and log
To ripple in hiding on a branch
And wink at barking dog
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
"Religion without the Good Bits"
A critique of Richard Dawkins atheist cult of personality in The Spectator:
The bizarre -- and costly -- cult of Richard Dawkins
Dawkins comments on "mild pedophilia" -- a necessary conclusion of a subjective, man-centered morality
Richard Dawkins Under Fire for Mild Pedophilia Remarks
The bizarre -- and costly -- cult of Richard Dawkins
Dawkins comments on "mild pedophilia" -- a necessary conclusion of a subjective, man-centered morality
Richard Dawkins Under Fire for Mild Pedophilia Remarks
Question and Answer
What are God's deeds like?
God's deeds are great and amazing.
What are God's ways like?
God's ways are just and true.
What has been revealed?
God's righteous acts.
Who, alone, is holy?
God.
Who will come and worship before him?
All nations will come and worship before him
Revelations 15
God's deeds are great and amazing.
What are God's ways like?
God's ways are just and true.
What has been revealed?
God's righteous acts.
Who, alone, is holy?
God.
Who will come and worship before him?
All nations will come and worship before him
Revelations 15
2 And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire—and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands. 3 And they sing the song of Moses,the servant[a] of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,
“Great and amazing are your deeds,
O Lord God the Almighty!
Just and true are your ways,
O King of the nations![b]
4 Who will not fear, O Lord,
and glorify your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come
and worship you,
for your righteous acts have been revealed.”
O Lord God the Almighty!
Just and true are your ways,
O King of the nations![b]
4 Who will not fear, O Lord,
and glorify your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come
and worship you,
for your righteous acts have been revealed.”
Family Worship
First part in a two-part series by Scott Redd, at Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals site, "The Christward Collective."
The Heart of Family Worship