December 2009
17 posts
Unity vs. Friendship
The big deal nowadays in my life is a problem that I have finding people who want to talk to me, and who want to listen to me. I’m finding a lot of people who don’t fully “appreciate” my comments during devotions, who never fail to remind us to “wrap it up” during meetings, who can talk for an entire hour about their own problems and then suddenly need to rush...
2010 Is Upon Us All
Having “New Years Resolution” time with 3 preteens. Listening to “Wait and See” by Brandon Heath and “Winter Snow” by Chris Tomlin (feat. Audrey Assad).
I’ve been trying to get them focused more on the idea of connecting with Jesus and thinking about a New Year “together with Jesus” as they write their resolutions. I’m looking over old...
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next...”
– T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding
“There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our...”
– Robert Orben
Christmas Moment #2
On the evening of the 22nd, Mom and I sat in her room, both working on separate computers, when we heard the bell and clamor of the “Ishiyaki Imo” guy down the street. We haven’t been here long, but one thing we have noticed is that he is a very old man who pulls, very faithfully in early evening, a massive cart with a banner atop it that says “Ishiyaki Imo” (Potatoes...
Christmas Moment #1
There’s something I want to say by the end of this post, but I’m not sure how to get around to it because there are a lot of strands to tie up to get to the point, and it’s all a little helter-skelter in my brain.
I spent the 19th of December rehearsing with John L. and some familiar musicians. They’d had a bit of panic trying to book a band for their Christmas event, as...
“Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
– Douglas Adams
Yuck
This is probably real gross, but, is there anyone else who has added to “I’m Glad I’m Single” praise time the fact that we don’t have to shave every day…? That we have the liberty to come home from a long day out half dead asleep and not have to do a scrub down in the shower? That we don’t have to have a regular cycle of sexy panties…we can sometimes...
Huge and Breathtaking
Sometimes I feel overwhelmed with the smallness of it all. How I can’t ever say anything that hasn’t been said before, and I can’t really make something that doesn’t serve the same basic function as something that someone’s made before, and I can’t really do very much in the grand scheme of things to change circumstances or to make people stand up and take...
Just A Child
“Let Me take away your feelings and burden of guilt and condemnation, and make you a child in My arms in every sense of the word. You become totally dependent upon Me for everything. You allow yourself to be as nothing, like a helpless little babe or child who can do nothing for himself, but must be cared for, nurtured and fed, loved and instructed, provided for, picked up and held and...
“He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.”
– Joseph Joubert
Obligatory Post about Posts
What is this strange compulsion that I have to preface everything? To always redeem myself, to always excuse myself, to wring out every last drop of explanation and stamp out any flickering possibility of anyone misunderstanding me?
The Libran raises its annoying head. If there’s anything you ought to know about the Libran, it’s that, when it appears in full force and fanfare, it does...
“Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent,...”
– Oren Arnold
Fragile
Spent a weekend in my hometown with old friends and new friends, having the first Christmas parties of the season before we start the Christmas roundup in our new home.
Talked with a few friends under the tree about life and how it’s going. I realized with a little consternation that I am, truly, at risk of being more cynical and jaded than the people I used to think I never wanted to be as...
“Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle
Everything I do...”
– W.S. Merwin, Separation
Half of My Heart
I was asking someone the other day if they would say that once upon a time they had a broken heart. I asked because I wonder what the measure of a broken heart is. How badly does it have to hurt to be a broken heart?
His answer was no. I thought about it and concurred; by his definition, he’d had a pretty simple life. People had hurt him sometimes, and sometimes he hadn’t gotten what...
Hi there.
I’m letting myself go tonight I’m letting myself slip Into a waiting water Into a forest of stars.