June 2007
JuneJun 24 Sunday 07
Garden Prayer
What a joy to walk
among your creation,
oh, Lord.
Blooming flowers.
Ants scurrying on the ground.
Birds crying overhead.
Make me as a plant
in this garden.
May I always be a proclamation
of your goodness and providence.
May I bear the fruit of a life
made beautiful by …
JuneJun 21 Thursday 07
The Orthodox "Experience"
When I was in Chicago recently, I was involved in a conversation with a local Methodist lady who happened to decide to come to the ACAAC conference and was asking all manner of questions about Orthodoxy. At one point, a couple of people also engaged in the discussion …
JuneJun 20 Wednesday 07
Where Your Treasure Is...
Ever since this afternoon, the 21st verse of Matthew 6 will not leave me be. It keeps repeating over and over again.
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also....for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also....
On it continues to swirl in …
JuneJun 18 Monday 07
Beautiful Day
There is often something transcendent about beautiful days. Today is a perfect example. I wake up at 7:50-something in a room where all the shades are drawn, leaving only a small crack through which a tiny amount of sunlight creeps in and illuminates the carpeted …
Two-for-one: Blogging An Undivided Life/Father's Day
Blogging An Undivided Life
I am entering an experimental phase. One filled with thought and execution, trial and error, fun and games, arsenic and old lace...
Okay, maybe not that last one.
But, I have reached a point where this blog, as it is, may or may not suit my …
JuneJun 13 Wednesday 07
Name
When I was in 12th grade, I had a friend named April. We only had band together, but we made the most of anytime we got to spend together. Inside jokes were plentiful, as were long rides on the bus to and from band events. I count her among the several people who …
JuneJun 12 Tuesday 07
Rambling Thoughts
I was speaking with a friend recently about things past. Failures, successes, tribulations, comforts, the ease and safeness of complacency versus the hard and jarring things that simple questions can reveal to, and about, a person. It's a discussion I am continuously …
Mr. Wizard (1917-2007): Memory Eternal
When I was a child, I watched "Mr. Wizard's World" every Saturday on Nickelodeon. It was where I learned that you don't put metal in the microwave, computers were capable of drawing if you knew the programming language, and you could make music with a wine glass, …
No Other Hope
A timely word (for me, anyway) from Fr. Stephen about not resting on your own abilities to stand up to the tempations and challeneges of life.
JuneJun 4 Monday 07
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
On Saturday of the ACAAC, I attended a lecture by Nun Katherine entitled "Repentance as a Gate: Will the Prodigal's Big Brother Enter?"
Hush Song
Be still and know that I am God. (Psalm 46:10)
be
still
shhsh
what ifs
if onlys
whys
whens
be
quiet
this is the moment of
surrender
hands lifted
fingers unfurled
like petals
in offering
this is before
yes and amen
the quiet fissure
in time/space
between
heaven/hell
that …
JuneJun 2 Saturday 07
Random Observations
The other day, when I actually had free time, I made a list of some random things I cnoticed or came across while on our journey from Nicholasville, KY, to Darien, Ill.
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Random observations made while riding to Chicago:
-It's relatively fun to turn on your laptop (if …
JuneJun 1 Friday 07
Orthodox Conference: First Night
On the first evening of our trip, we visited St. Athanasius in Nicholasville, KY. It was good to see the priest, who used to serve at our home parish. We were also blessed by the kindness of strangers when the subdeacon offered to take us in for the night so that we …