Assignment 1, BI.233 “The Bible and the Hermeneutics of Ministry,” January 2019 Describe your beliefs about the Bible (one page, single-spaced). When I hold myself still and think back on my beliefs about the Bible, I can see that I’ve been startlingly consistent. I’ve been reading since before I can remember, and I remember reading […]
In business- or management-speak, and FTE (“full-time equivalent”) is a way to map the work/effort that needs to happen onto person-sized units. If a project is going to require two FTEs (yeah, a tiny project!), one then could put two people to work on it, or four half-time folk, or, or. There are some nuances […]
I’d thought my work-blocks would play themselves out differently, and I would write-write today. Still, we’re mostly level-set after camping for four days, I’ve brain-dumped over 25 action items, and I’ve finally been able to start stringing my warp for the loom of 2019. I hadn’t even gotten our kitchen calendar up! ** Originally, and […]
To write is to be in conversation with yourself, to preserve a state of being so you can conclude a sequence of thinking and feeling. The enemy to this process is intrusion. Children, in all of their beauty and wildness and strange genius, are, in the way of a meteorite, an intrusion. — Claudia Dey, […]
Do not telephone another home before 10am. . Do not knock on the door before 10am either. Their parents are still sleeping. . If you see someone out playing in the street — or in their front yard — before 10am, you may go play (after you tell your parent that’s what you’re doing). . […]
The sky is a brilliant slate blue after a thunder-stormy night. Propofol is an interesting anesthetic, in that it wears off quickly (for me, very quickly) except in the ways that it doesn’t. No legal or financial decisions today! I have been pretty sure My Sweetie fed me a diet chock-full of Real Food, and […]
EnneaThought® for the Day Type Five EnneaThought® for December 21st Today, do the opposite of your ordinary personality pattern. As a Five, leap unprepared into something and see what happens. (Personality Types, 173) Does it count if, instead, I slide sideways through my mostly unstructured day, playing Matchington Mansion over multiple sets of five lives? […]
King of Kings, Most Holy One God the son, eternal one You are my God and helpless son High ruler of mankind Alleluia… —”Christ Child’s Lullaby (Tàladh Chriosda), ” as sung by Kathy Mattea It’s Day Four: After Finals. I (we!) have retrieved a child, traipsed to the hinterlands for the right kind of biscuit […]
With a mere hour and a half to spare, I handed in my last final this afternoon. In my giddiness, I added six possible activities for the few hours before My Sweetie arrives. ** I just looked up after half an hour of joking with my friends via Facebook to notice that the fresh pitcher […]
…24 hours from now I’ll get to pack up my ancient Hebrew learning materials. That’s worth something at this point. In February, I’ll be studying Isaiah from the Masoretic Hebrew. With a lexicon by my side! Much more my cuppa than squeezing my brain to regurgitate. I’ll likely be slow as the dickens (Great Expectations […]
