November 2010
15 posts
prayer from today...
Catch us off guard today. Surprise us with some moment of beauty or pain, so that for at least a moment we may be startled into seeing that you are with us here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life we breathe.
Help us discover our true aspirations, the pangs we ignore, the longings we forget, the ideals we ought to aspire to.
God,...
interesting news from the pope
pope benedict announces the use of condoms is ok to stop spread of hiv…
article here
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heschel
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
The greatest problem is not how to continue but how to exalt our existence. The call for a life beyond the grave is presumptuous, if there is no cry for eternal life prior for our descending to the grave. Eternity is not perpetual future but perpetual presence. He has planted in us the seed of eternal life. The world to come is not only a hereafter...
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from bagdad
Canon Andrew White (the vicar of Bagdad) just posted this….
In the past hour the legs of our security chief have been blown off , Minister wijdan’s driver has been killed her chief of staff has been blown up. Letters have been put through many Christians doors telling them to leave now because it is not there country and we thought things were better today.
Andrew, blessed are the...
Watchrecording guitars on rebecca st james’ album
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this stuff happens...speechless
met a 14 year old girl in romania, orphaned at an early age and left on the streets of bucharest at 2 yrs old…all she’s known is abuse…
a few months ago while under the care of a home that a friend from N Ireland works with, she was kidnapped and forced into prostitution…the police and my friend found her and rescued her and she’s now back in good care…
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WatchThis is what happens at an OSS writing session…
On the road this week
Getting ready to leave for europe on wednesday… playing guitar for Michael w Smith click here
for all dates…if you’re interested that is :)