oh so happy.  about 3 years in the making and it is finally done.  the new church of the apostles cd.  Laudamus.  It's amazing.  wow.  this was an amazing community effort...so many of us have a part in this.

Ancient rhythms of worship (morning/evening prayer, chant, hymns, scripture) blended with ambient post-modern beats.

What a week...

So the stupidest thing I've done recently happened on Tuesday.  I left my laptop on a bus in Edmonds.  Holy friggin' cow.  That was stupid.  I reported it to the lost and found, and thank God someone gave it to the driver.  Whew.  However,  I could not claim it until the next day after noon.

Tuesday was staff meeting for Church of the ( Read more... )

Just an update to my previous entry--those moments of darkness about my disease hit me every so often.  Life is moving on....another marathon completed, some health care options have been presented to me by a friend ( Read more... )

What was an upswing with my life has once again been distracted.  This time by my disease, Neurofibromatosis.  I hate this disease; I hate everything about NF.  Yesterday a firm knotty tumor appeared on the right side of my face.  I had just settled into the belief that maybe the damn thing had slowed.  Four years of relatively little growth and ( Read more... )

OK, I have been working on my new blog, and it is up and running.  I imagine this will take some time initially to establish, but I choose to see this new blog as less of an extra activity and more a part of a way in which I'll do ministry.

Posts here about more personal matters and complaints about life will be friends only (and I've been locking ( Read more... )

yeah. that's right. Ride the S.L.U.T ( Read more... )

i know better than this. i don't know what i'm doing to myself, why i am up this late. but, here i am ( Read more... )

nearly my whole day was dedicated to a ceremonious event. early this morning (saturday) i arose and blankly stared at my computer before my brain caught up with my body. tired from the week's events, i still was able to find joy in what i was about to participate. something like this does not happen too often, and i will be less likely to ( Read more... )

So this meme thing is going around about go to this website "career cruising" bla bla bla and post the results. Could be interesting, although I have not the time to do it. Instead, the whole thing sounds like it could be similar to the Strong Interest Inventory, a real test used to assess possible careers. I had to take it as part of my ( Read more... )

With the sounds of grinding coffee and music in the background, we discussed and planned liturgy for future worship services. Even more, we read the Gospel text, wondering what the heck Jesus was talking about. However, this wasn't just any "typical" church meeting--laptops were open, wi-fi enabled, and some of the discussion happened via our ( Read more... )