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Dust and Ashes
Blessing the Dust*
A Blessing for Ash Wednesday
All those days
you felt like dust,
like dirt,
as if all you had to do
was turn your face
toward the wind
and be scattered
to the four corners
or swept away
by the smallest breath
as insubstantial-
Did you not know
what the Holy One
can do with dust?
This is the day
we freely say
we are scorched.
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Meme: Must Read* List
Must Read List:
Since it is (sandmantv )’s meme I suppose I should do it - even though I tend to be bad at having favorites, let alone favorites that I think other people will share. To quote his instructions: This isn’t a list of what you think is good or is on the top of your mind. But the list of things that when someone tells you they haven’t read it ( Read more... ) -
blog reading is dangerous
So in a post largely about other things one of the bloggers I read made the following comment*:
We've lost sight of the fact that the liturgy our church teaches becomes the liturgy of our daily lives. For example, one of my parenting things (read: indoctrination) since my kids were small is this:
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Anita Blake
Latest Anita Blake book (Skin Trade) was suprisingly good. Lots of Edward and no Richard. Very few sex scenes. Anita doing her marshall job (though only after wading through macho cop nonsense and a lot of angst). Still some problems with Anita being too powerful for you to really ever worry about bad guys any more but she didn't get crazy new ( Read more... ) -
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Today in Marriage and Family class (what most of my friends have termed the "dysfuntional family class") we got to watch the following quality educational clip from you tube:
Btw - those puppets - standard issue for all non-violent communication trainers - including my professor - though she has yet to bring one to class.
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Done : 4* final papers (for a total of 46 pages) and one CPE Application (total 11 pages or so ( Read more... ) -
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While I consider what it means to use "shepherding" as a metaphor for pastoral care I have been distracted by this article from the New York Times on Halo 3 and Youth Ministry -
World Literature Suggestions
My mother is looking for books by authors who are neither American nor British who she can recommend to high school students (think summer reading type assignments). She is especially looking for the sort of genre fiction (romance, sci-fi, mystery) that would appeal to reluctant readers or really those people who are never going to be English ( Read more... ) -
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Been hanging out in Borders a lot reading books and drinking coffee since I have no internet at the place I'm stay for the next week or so.
Thoughts on books I've been reading which while super vague might lead to spoilers or perhaps spoiler comments.
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One of my classes this semester is basically a series of case studies where we as groups think of what theological, biblical texts and practical/pastoral concerns would come into play in a situation and then formulate some sort of response. So we have had a case study who felt the church abandoned her in a time of crisis, this week we talked about ( Read more... )
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