The Christmas displays are already out in every mall, department store, Target store and Walmart across America.
If this bothers you as much as it bothers me, please consider joining the Advent Consipiracy.
Or failing that, just watch the video below.
Watch.
and...
Ponder.
and...
Dream....
...of a kinder, gentler, safer world.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Green
Youngest daughter is one slammin chicka in her fuzzy green hat and boa!
She's such a lovely child.
Words cannot begin to capture the beauty of her spirit, or her humor, or her kindness.
I love her.
...and if you knew her, you would too!
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Balls
This disembodied barbie head is my van's antenna ball topper!
Is that funny, or what?
You can't see it in the picture, but just below the barbie's head is a disarticulated plastic skeleton sitting atop an orange straw.
One of my delightful progeny took it upon themselves to decorate my antenna.
I think it's hilarious.
There's just something about a disembodied barbie head antenna ball topper that brings a smile to my face.
....and judging from the reactions of other drivers when I'm out and about, my antenna is cause for others to smile too!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Links
Below are four links to some pretty incredible websites.
I encourage you to take a few moments and explore each one.
Let me know what you think!
View a breathtaking Bible.
Be sure to watch the whole video.
Help bring water to families in Hale, Alabama.
Just click the house to advance the presentation.
Experience love, light and melody.
Awesome photography...soul crushing.
Explore a grassroots love project committed to living tangible acts of service for the benefit of others.
Artistic tees that rock my world.
I encourage you to take a few moments and explore each one.
Let me know what you think!
View a breathtaking Bible.
Be sure to watch the whole video.
Help bring water to families in Hale, Alabama.
Just click the house to advance the presentation.
Experience love, light and melody.
Awesome photography...soul crushing.
Explore a grassroots love project committed to living tangible acts of service for the benefit of others.
Artistic tees that rock my world.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Wildness
Next week, God willing, I will be celebrating 13 years clean and sober.
That's a miracle, pure and simple.
When I was newly sober, I discovered Joan Osborne's album, "Relish". It was raw. It was gritty and I loved every song.
This past September, Joan released a new album entitled, "Little Wild One." It's a softer kind of album and oddly enough, it fits the person I am today. I'm kind of softer too.
Some of you know that I am currently experiencing my own "dark night of the soul".....a deep and dry absence of God's presence. This morning I was listening to Joan Osborne's title track, "Little Wild One".
As I did, I pretended Jesus was singing this song to me, that I was his "little wild one." I pretended that instead of Joan, it was Jesus singing his longing for me, vocalizing His heart's desire for me to turn to Him so that he might fully heal and eternally embrace me.
It was a poignant moment for me. It was a moment when God suddenly did not seem so very far away...a moment where God actually seemed real and alive.
....anyhow, here's a YouTube video of Joan Osborne discussing her album and the song "Little Wild One."
I love this song....
Joan Osborne discusses "Little Wild One"
That's a miracle, pure and simple.
When I was newly sober, I discovered Joan Osborne's album, "Relish". It was raw. It was gritty and I loved every song.
This past September, Joan released a new album entitled, "Little Wild One." It's a softer kind of album and oddly enough, it fits the person I am today. I'm kind of softer too.
Some of you know that I am currently experiencing my own "dark night of the soul".....a deep and dry absence of God's presence. This morning I was listening to Joan Osborne's title track, "Little Wild One".
As I did, I pretended Jesus was singing this song to me, that I was his "little wild one." I pretended that instead of Joan, it was Jesus singing his longing for me, vocalizing His heart's desire for me to turn to Him so that he might fully heal and eternally embrace me.
It was a poignant moment for me. It was a moment when God suddenly did not seem so very far away...a moment where God actually seemed real and alive.
....anyhow, here's a YouTube video of Joan Osborne discussing her album and the song "Little Wild One."
I love this song....
Joan Osborne discusses "Little Wild One"
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Correlations
Morality and the Economic Crisis
N. Gordon Cosby
I have a friend who is an attorney with a deep knowledge of the national economic crisis. He made two interesting comments:
He first said that "liquidity" is not the real problem in the market right now---it is that no one knows what anything is worth. So much stuff of questionable value is hidden on balance sheets that buyers no longer know if something is worth what it is trading for, less, or more. So no one really knows how bad things are and cannot put an efficient, valid price on things. In other words, blindness about value. That destroys the logic of the "free market" because efficiency is based on "transparency" of value.
Second, he said that as a result of the first problem of blindness about value, it is difficult to know if persons you are selling to can meet their commitments to you. In other words---blindness about the solvency of parties in the market. That also kills an "efficient" market because it destroys the needed trust that makes the market work.
In spiritual traditions of all kinds, blindness is an old theme----people who corruptly set out to blind others end up blind themselves. We ignore that wisdom at our peril. Morality, once again, is proven to be fundamental to an efficient marketplace.
Source: Conversation with a friend, September 28, 2008
N. Gordon Cosby
I have a friend who is an attorney with a deep knowledge of the national economic crisis. He made two interesting comments:
He first said that "liquidity" is not the real problem in the market right now---it is that no one knows what anything is worth. So much stuff of questionable value is hidden on balance sheets that buyers no longer know if something is worth what it is trading for, less, or more. So no one really knows how bad things are and cannot put an efficient, valid price on things. In other words, blindness about value. That destroys the logic of the "free market" because efficiency is based on "transparency" of value.
Second, he said that as a result of the first problem of blindness about value, it is difficult to know if persons you are selling to can meet their commitments to you. In other words---blindness about the solvency of parties in the market. That also kills an "efficient" market because it destroys the needed trust that makes the market work.
In spiritual traditions of all kinds, blindness is an old theme----people who corruptly set out to blind others end up blind themselves. We ignore that wisdom at our peril. Morality, once again, is proven to be fundamental to an efficient marketplace.
Source: Conversation with a friend, September 28, 2008
Friday, October 03, 2008
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