A soapbox

(for lack of the creative thinking skills needed to come up with a better title)
I suppose my blogging habits of late fit me in with this predictably hyperbolic description, courtesy of David Ker:
the rest of the blogosphere has rolled over on its back and feigned death
I’m supposed to be keeping my word to write a [...]

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Weird Worship

I’ve been tagged by David Ker of Lingamish (and seven or so other blogs) with the “Weird Worship Meme”. According to the MBTI, I’m an ISFJ, so usually I like to stick to the rules. But, with this one I followed Gentle Wisdom’s route and just let my mind go down its own path [...]

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Sighing

…my second language.

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Forgiveness

Well, that may not be the point of the poem I read today, but when I read it, and my brain did its thing of connecting the feeling I got when I read it with any similar feelings, I ended up with a hodgepodge in my head with these three things overlapping, and the word [...]

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Hope Wears Mourning

That phrase has been in my mind and heart all week, since reading a book review with a similar title. I don’t even remember the name of the book being reviewed, but that picture–of a hope dressed in mourning–has given expression to the tension I find myself living in.
A hope that does not leave space [...]

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Out of Context

What is your favorite (or least favorite, depending on your perspective and degree of optimism at the moment) example of a verse from the Bible taken out of context, misused or misapplied?

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Permission to Be Stubborn

One of the more bizarre things about how people perceive me is that I can look both (1) like a pushover and (2) obstinately stubborn.
The first observation is explained, I think, by the fact that I have a very wide tolerance for things and so there are many times I just don’t care either way. [...]

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Why I’m not Anti-Intellectual

Because if I had to reject everyone whose brain thinks and communicates in ways that are different than mine and which are hard for me to understand, I’d miss out on gems like this post from Ancient Hebrew Poetry, “Why I am Not an Atheist”. The whole post is brilliant, and I hope you’ll go [...]

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TV Deprived

[If you find my rambling on and on about my kids dreadfully uninteresting, I hope you'll just skip to the end and watch the video, because I'd hate to think you missed out on this delightful and very eclectic video because of all my words!]
When my children are with me, we never watch TV and [...]

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Nets are Nice

…a FREE downloadable book for children about malaria and the role of mosquito nets in prevention.
This book by Gary Edson, with a forward by First Lady Laura Bush, is published by Malaria No More, in conjunction with Scholastic.
The Malaria No More campaign also has an informative ten minute video about malaria, its history and [...]

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