new day

19May09

Today is a new day. Sorry, too personal for details. Suffice to say that I am feeling lonely, anxious, hopeful, and sad all at once. Yes, that is quite a mix and I am pretty sure I am not alone in this state.
It is not how I had hoped things would go, but I think [...]

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Tags: life, personal

central

26Sep08

I am sure most of the netizens out there have heard of Wordle. This little java applet can scrape text from a web page and use the common terms to form a text word cloud of your page.
It is really neat to see the central theme to a web page using the words on the [...]

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Tags: blog, faith, God, images, internet, life, tag cloud, technology, web 2.0, word cloud, wordle

homing beacon

04Sep08

I mentioned before that I am a home owner now, but I didn’t mention that it is an old house. Built in 1932 the house has a few problems that require attention – one being the roof.
So this past long weekend I put a new roof on the house, practically from the rafters on up. [...]

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Tags: God's People, holiday, home, joy, life, path, renovations, roof repair, sacrifice

fingers for prayer

22Aug08

Each of her fingers stood for someone. Her thumb was nearest to her, and it reminded her to pray for those who were nearest and closest and dearest to her.

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Tags: barclay, book, christianity, family, fingers, friends, God, habits, leadership, life, neighbors, philippians, prayer, reading

homing in

29Jul08

With the recent purchase of my own house (first!) the preparatory and ancillary actions have swallowed the last two months whole.
Or perhaps it is my laziness.
At any rate, most of the moving/organizing is done, with only a few outstanding details to put down. Then I can begin on the real work. Last night we made [...]

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Tags: home, joy, life, lists, morning, organization, path, renovations

subversive continued

23May08

A comment yesterday got me thinking further than just “how would our lives change if we didn’t have personal cars”. Fae’s comment got me thinking – how much would we change as a society if we were forced to take communal transport? Whether that is mass transit, or subsidized carpooling…
Originally, I was thinking internally, as [...]

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Tags: cars, driving, life, social conciousness, society, transit, transportation

Choosing to yield

07Nov07

Have you given much thought to how baptism relates to sin in your life? That is what I have been thinking about today.
So, as soon as I said baptism, your mind immediately went to thoughts of immersion or sprinkling of water. Right? A river, a pool, a lake, or bowl next to an altar…
I [...]

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Tags: baptism, choice, christianity, church, faith, life, posting, religion, romans, traditions, yielding