April 2011
1 post
I'm ba-ack!
And you should come see me in Wastebasket Review sometime over the next two weekends!
May 2008
4 posts
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll...”
– Source: The Enlightened Heart, an Anthology of Sacred Poetry Rumi
“I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of...”
– Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk The Way It Really Is Annie Dillard Excellent day after Pentecost posting!
April 2008
12 posts
John 14:1-14
Today’s New International Version (TNIV) © Copyright 2001, 2005 by International Bible SocietyJesus Comforts His Disciples 1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God [a]; trust also in me. 2 My Father’s house has plenty of room; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will...
1 Peter 2:2-10
Today’s New International Version (TNIV) © Copyright 2001, 2005 by International Bible Society 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. The Living Stone and a Chosen People 4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by human beings but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you...
Psalm 31
Psalm 31 (Today’s New International Version)Today’s New International Version (TNIV) © Copyright 2001, 2005 by International Bible SocietyFor the director of music. A psalm of David. [a] 1 In you, LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness. 2 Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of...
“Mystify us, arouse and confuse us. Shatter our illusions and plans so that we...”
– Source: The Sacrament of the Present Moment Until We Have Found You Jean Pierre de Caussade
2007 Childrens Books - 100 Titles for Reading and... →
“We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn or scoff at the totality of...”
– Source: I Asked for Wonder Unhesitating Awe Abraham Heschel
“If I try to be or do something noble that has nothing to do with who I am, I may...”
– Doing Who I Am Parker Palmer Source: Let Your Life Speak
“Our true identity is hidden in the center of our being. Even though we have to...”
– Hidden in the Center Henri Nouwen Source: unknown
What thoughtful friends I have...
Kelli - you crack me up! To view your ecard, choose from the options below. Click on the following link: http://www.americangreetings.com/ecards/view.pd?i=464621918&m=1872&rr=y&source=ag999
Villeins and vermin, simpletons and saints
This is the alternate title to Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! which won the Newberry this year. I think more kids would want to read it if they had used the alternate title!(book by Laura Amy Schlitz, illustrated by Robert Byrd)
Seth Godin on the Forces of Mediocrity
bauldoff: “Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths… whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it’s over. If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way,...
March 2008
10 posts
“Agents of Transformation
We feel small and weak, but we are gathered together...”
– Source: From Brokenness to Community Jean Vanier
“It is not the religious act that makes the Christian, but participation in the...”
– Source: Letters and Papers from Prison Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Go Dewey!
Yes, there is a reason why books are arranged in a certain order in the library — and no, that order is not by size! (Even if that would help them not fall off the shelf.)
“The Way
Bernard Phillips
The Way will teach you the Way, and the Way is...”
– Source: The Search Will Make You Free http://www.inwardoutward.org/
So...
What should we talk about? Anyone reading Oprah's current book and watching the webcast?
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Come and play with your favorite Seuss characters!
“At least once a day allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.”
– Albert Einstein
