How did I miss your Bogus War on Christmas posting? And have you disappeared it?
Say, for not just academic curiosity, and with Heep-like apology if I've asked before-- do you or might you ingest steak, kidney and oyster pie? I make a dandy Dickensian-tasting one (which also happens to be the only sort I've had), but it's not something most of us mere mortals can ingest a large quantity of, and it's expensive enough in ingredients and effort to make throwing out a third or more Folly. So I am perennially on the watch for Carnivores with Little Fear.
(The one thing I miss about my former husband is How He Could Eat. Landy.)
War On Xmas post is Dec. 5. I sort of like steak and kidney pie, but have never had it oysters!
Meanwhile, a question; so I blatantly copped that line about curing vs. healing in my cancerchick post from you..I meant to give attribution but, er, didn't. Now a friend is asking what I meant. I will confess correct authorship and give my own interpretation, but can you direct me to that sermon you wrote wherein you used that? (I think I was even the main focus of it!) Thank you!
Ah, here it is! LJ didn't notify me of your response, so i hadn't seen this. And I'm no help to you!
The distinction between healing and cure is, to the best of my knowledge, currently a commonplace in liberal Prot circles. I don't know who originated it. Offhand I'd speculate on Henri Nouwen's The Wounded Healer, but that's irresponsible of me. I first encountered it from my second mentor, who suffers chronically from fibromyalgia but is indeed a healed person.
And as for the sermon, I can't help in any substantive way, either. The portion about you in that sermon as written almost surely went like this: "Mary [Lastname]" The holy spirit got into my computer my first year in Rock Springs, and I ended up concluding that I was not to write out sermons. And once I've given them, I forget them, to be honest.
Hi there! Well, drat. I know you mentioned me and my subime and perky attitude (my tongue is planted firmly in my cheek here, fyi) as an example of heal rather than cure. Let's pretend that's true; what do you think you meant by it? Or the liberal Protestant take on it? Need only be a line or two; I'm putting something together for a friend, who is taking it all too literally and corporally. THANK YOU!
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Say, for not just academic curiosity, and with Heep-like apology if I've asked before-- do you or might you ingest steak, kidney and oyster pie? I make a dandy Dickensian-tasting one (which also happens to be the only sort I've had), but it's not something most of us mere mortals can ingest a large quantity of, and it's expensive enough in ingredients and effort to make throwing out a third or more Folly. So I am perennially on the watch for Carnivores with Little Fear.
(The one thing I miss about my former husband is How He Could Eat. Landy.)
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Meanwhile, a question; so I blatantly copped that line about curing vs. healing in my cancerchick post from you..I meant to give attribution but, er, didn't. Now a friend is asking what I meant. I will confess correct authorship and give my own interpretation, but can you direct me to that sermon you wrote wherein you used that? (I think I was even the main focus of it!) Thank you!
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The distinction between healing and cure is, to the best of my knowledge, currently a commonplace in liberal Prot circles. I don't know who originated it. Offhand I'd speculate on Henri Nouwen's The Wounded Healer, but that's irresponsible of me. I first encountered it from my second mentor, who suffers chronically from fibromyalgia but is indeed a healed person.
And as for the sermon, I can't help in any substantive way, either. The portion about you in that sermon as written almost surely went like this:
"Mary [Lastname]"
The holy spirit got into my computer my first year in Rock Springs, and I ended up concluding that I was not to write out sermons. And once I've given them, I forget them, to be honest.
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