Today is a less-intense reprise of My Sweetie’s and my experience of a few weeks back: That Robin is flying full speed at our bedroom windows. This time, Robin is focused on the window near my bed (shade down, by the way) and the glass doors from the office to the garden (no coverings). It’s […]
Here’s one thing that happened when I snapped around quickly to look at the ideas trailing me… I am, as you may know, a long-time steady consumer of personal development literature. Given the time I’ve spent and my own habits of mind, I’m quite the personal-development gourmet…suspicious of “three easy steps,” intrigued by “As […]
There is bound to be research into connections between cognitive activity and carbohydrate craving/consumption. I was going to look it up, but my brain is melty. (Autocorrect thought that should be “empty,” which is not as accurate.) On the other hand, I’m caught up on my seminary homework just in time to start planning my […]
to organize, divine. there are rose petals blown across the threshold of my hotel’s hallway door My brain is fatigued. Friday’s usual can-till-can’t of super-regional (synod) Presbyterian Women administration, Saturday’s usual additional half-day, plus the pre-meetings beforehand have left me inarticulate yet determined to set Sabbath as a day of no work, not even creeping […]
These examples make it clear that the guidelines for living that Jesus gave, that is, his ethics, were grounded in his apocalyptic worldview. They are probably misunderstood, therefore, when they are taken as principles for a healthy society. […]The motivation for ethical behavior, then, sprang from the imminent arrival of the Kingdom, to be brought […]
My graded midterm arrived in my inbox this morning. Now that it’s safely squared away/ according to the internal logic of publication rights <g>, I’m going to share it with you here. It’s a little longer than most of my posts… but not by much. Again, you have heard that it was said to the […]
as collected by the Venerable Bede, translated from the Old English Now must we praise heaven-kingdom’s guardian, the measurer’s might and his mind-thoughts the work of the Gloryfather, how he of each wonder, Eternal Lord, established a beginning. He first shaped for men’s sons heaven as a roof, the Holy Shaper; then middle-earth mankind’s guardian […]
Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest,My Soule, this wholsome meditation,How God the Spirit, by Angels waited onIn heaven, doth make his Temple in thy brest.The Father having begot a Sonne most blest,And still begetting, (for he ne’r begonne)Hath deign’d to chuse thee by adoption,Co-heire to’his glory,’and Sabbaths endless rest.And as a robb’d […]
I am installing patches on B’s computer. More accurately speaking, I’m writing for you, because I’m bored with my dozens of solitaire hands (I consistently win or fail in three minutes or less)… since “installing things” is primarily patient oversight. I’m not kidding; I’ve seen far too many people doom themselves to additional frustration by […]
I sat down this afternoon with my favorite reading-snack, O the Oprah Magazine, flipped it over, and started reading back-to-front. (I read almost every magazine this way; most have something witty on their last page, and that way the photo features come next.) “What I Know for Sure” is the last page in every O, […]
