June 29, 2007 at 5:37 pm (Uncategorized)
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15 Dec 2006
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nueva esperanza… how fitting.
The backdrop of mountains cuts into the sky
They’re there to protect or entrap the ones inside
A quiet village is full of tired brows
Thin strips of farm land fight it out with the farmers
In the night the roosters crow with hunger
The wind brings dust instead of rain brought with thunder
And as I hold your dirty hand all that I can say to you
Is in the awkward smile I make
I can’t explain why I came to this distant land
Your simple smiles refresh my soul and
I can’t help but love you and know
That you have all you need
When I would get lonely and feel like a foreigner
I’d look up to the sky and see it’s just the same but brighter
Two eagles fly free but their patterns are not the same
One is weaker, but it’s spirit soars higher
What one yearns for it never seems to reach
The other has learned to separate its wants from needs
As I look into your face I see hope and not disgrace
And strength that carries you along the rugged road you travel on
And as we go our separate ways you can be sure that I have changed
Because I’ve seen the way you live
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oh.. and then you get back to the states and you find out that donald rumsfeld and jesus seem to agree on something:
“Today, it should be clear that not only is weakness provocative, but the perception of weakness on our part can be provocative as well”
oh wait…
(quote taken from http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/15/bush.rumsfeld.ap/index.html)
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10 Dec 2006
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a few words from the valley of angels.
last night i sat below st. francis and planned an advent gathering in honduras.
i have about thirty bites on my leg from an unidentified insect.
marlon dances like a champ. i cant wait to get home. i wish i could stay here.
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07 Dec 2006
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el esperar en el aeropuerto para el groupo numero dos
doug gave me a book this morning… Ill probably finish tonight..
on inclusivity:
we would like to include people like the rich ruler and ananias and sapphira, but we would end up with the sort of christianity that arose after constantine, in which everyone can be a christian but no one knows what a christian is anymore.
a child who runs / to greet you, this is the thinnest / of thin places.
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06 Dec 2006
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oho has internet
and i have a really terrible looking beard. they shouldn´t let people that look like me into a place like MDL.
if you can believe it… evangelicals are scarrier here than at home.
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03 Dec 2006
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No Lie
Malaria Preventative: ¨Warning may cause vivid dreams¨
Nicotine Patch: ¨Warning may cause vivid dreams¨
Let´s just say that sleeping is an adventure… and I´m wide awake in Honduras.
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02 Dec 2006
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oh here i am.
i´m not good enough with words to try to pull this off.
so.. we´ll just say that I am very happy to be at this place, with these people.
i just realized today I will be here for 5 1/2 of the next 9 weeks.. holy crap. get off the internet phil.. you idiot. ok. bye.
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29 Nov 2006
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well watered garden
A Well-watered Garden
Description: The film at the centre of this film is part of a faith community called Jacob..s well in Vancouver, Canada..s downtown east side. This neighbourhood has complex difficulties including extreme poverty (the poorest postal code in Canada), drug addiction (more than five thousand needle users), widespread disease (highest HIV & AIDS infection in the western world), and prevalent mental illness (estimated more then 50% of area resident). The Jacob..s Well community has a unique, relational approach to sharing life with residents of the neighbourhood through visiting people, gardening, gathering around the table, worshiping, praying and serving.
If you’re having trouble watching the video, try copying the following URL into your browser:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6453728250840339146&pr=goog-sl&hl=en-CA
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27 Nov 2006
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funny how these things turn out to form prayers.
“Hobbits have been living and farming in the four Farthings of the Shire for many hundreds of years, quite content to ignore and be ignored by the world of the Big Folk. Middle-earth being, after all, full of strange creatures beyond count, Hobbits must seem of little importance, being neither renowned as great warriors nor counted among the very wise… In fact, it has been remarked by some that Hobbits’ only real passion is for food. A rather unfair observation, as we have also developed a keen interest in the brewing of ales and the smoking of pipe-weed. But where our hearts truly lie is in peace and quiet and good, tilled earth. For all hobbits share a love for things that grow. And, yes, no doubt to others, our ways seem quaint. But today of all days, it is brought home to me: It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.”
-bilbo baggins
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23 Nov 2006
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turkey bowl IV
im beginning to measure the amount of time that i have spent in ohio by which turkey bowl we are on..
I don’t mean to brag.. but i was on fire at the 4th annual turkey bowl. i was no fullen brother mind you.. but i was definitely at the top of my game.
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ok.. so this isn’t a picture of me.. but its pretty close to what happened.. don’t believe it? ask one of the other 16 people there.. or ask the big rug burn on my knee.. definitely worth it.
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22 Nov 2006
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21 Nov 2006
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do justice. love mercy.
how i see the current state of the LP’s visible peace actions:
in praying for our enemies and establishing friendships with the least of these we are attempting to expose a hidden world in which there are alternatives to hierarchy, dominance, and violence.
interesting that last night i found out that veterans make up a large portion of the Columbus homeless population.
and with that.. wendell berry:
“What could be more absurd, to begin with, than our attitude of high moral outrage against other nations for manufacturing the selfsame weapons that we manufacture? The difference, as our leaders say, is that we will use these weapons virtuously, whereas our enemies will use them maliciously..a proposition that too readily conforms to a proposition of much less dignity: we will use them in our interest, whereas our enemies will use them in theirs…
…by now all of us must at least have suspected that our right to live, to be free, and to be at peace is not guaranteed by any act of violence. It can be guaranteed only by our willingness that all other persons should live, be free, and be at peace..and by our willingness to use or give our own lives to make that possible. To be incapable of such willingness is merely to resign ourselves to the absurdity we are in; and yet, if you are like me, you are unsure to what extent you are capable of it.
…you must know that we have not come to rest, far from it. For surely we must feel ourselves swarmed about with more questions that are urgent, personal, and intimidating. But perhaps also we feel ourselves beginning to be free, facing at last in our own selves the greatest challenge ever laid before us, the most comprehensive vision of human progress, the best advice, and the least obeyed:
..Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust…”
is there a bottom to this rabbit hole?
oh.. and if you are bored.. this crazy old truth telling cat is giving a talk at osu tonight at 6 p.m.on the global aids crises
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20 Nov 2006
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there is so much less to this than you think
that’s the title of an essay i’ve been writing about the church that i really wanted to finish. today made me think of how little it is that i even need to write.
what an absolutely out of control day… ‘hey man.. now you’re really living!’
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18 Nov 2006
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17 Nov 2006
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“oh.. two weeks”
while outside my window, our city melts down..
“…Your gonna take my bottle, my bible, my mess
Your gonna take all of my empty and my loneliness
Gonna take all of that sadness inside of me
Gonna take it all and set me free
Oh, Black River
Gonna take my cares away…”
– Amos Lee
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16 Nov 2006
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15 Nov 2006
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