Well, the post title (Shelving our Scotties) grabbed me initially, but L.L. Barkat, the author of this HighCalling.org post, suggests something I don’t remember hearing before: that just because God has given me a gift, I’m not obligated to use it, now … or ever?
This has some relevance for one of the many holes [...]
(Via Pastor Dan at Street Prophets, currently tearing up the joint at Netroots Nation)
I should really offer this without comment. I love and adore the idea and have signed up for the email list. I may even participate in a project. But the idea of organizing one has tapped into all my [...]
I spotted this saying on a bumper sticker earlier today, and the spouse and I disagreed on the message. It struck me as rather arrogant (the implication being that the driver of course has plans for all his/her goals, and is therefore Better Than You), but it didn’t seem that way at all to [...]
I’m watching my mother deal with the fallout from some water damage done to her condo by an upstairs neighbor. I think I’ve finally isolated her conflict strategy, which bears an uncomfortably close relationship to my own. It goes something like this:
1. Experience an incursion of some kind.
2. Try to assure [...]
This post by Real Live Preacher hit me pretty hard, and not only because it is an exquisitely-written essay:
You are the person who is defined by what you choose and what you truly desire and what you really think and believe. That’s who you are. If you want to begin any kind of spiritual or [...]
This is what a struggle does: it pares you down to the essentials. Milton of Don’t Eat Alone writes movingly about his ongoing daily decisions to keep going:
Therefore, I have to decide what it means for my life that I live with depression. I have to decide whether my faith or my illness [...]
Had a chance to play with a copier sized, paper, wood, some plastics laser cutter today. Just the (tens of thousands $) toy I always wanted. Oh to have had access in my preteen scratch model building days….
Link for the manufacturer of the model I was using: http://www.epiloglaser.com/
By hearsay, these are the hot [...]
Today, I spent an hour in a safety and checkout class for some welding equipment, which mentally took me back about 30 years to when I was the worst applied student in a semester class of welding. Fortunately for me in the college class, a fair bit of the grade was on [...]
Pastor Dan on Street Prophets posted on How to Engage Stupid Ideas and Profound Disagreement. This reminded me of a set of rules I read about several years ago, which the power of Google allowed me to find on kottke.org:
1. Release the need to be right.
2. Welcome one another’s thoughts and opinions.
3. Suspend judgment.
4. [...]
Here are some of the things it has stolen from me lately:
Sense of humor
Energy
Initiative
Temper
Ability to nurture relationships
Hope
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