Monthly Archives: January 2008

Around our house

New around our house – Leo is on a low/no carb diet in order to get ready for lap band surgery.  He is doing so well that I may try it too.  I could stand to lose a few pounds.  Leo is following the South Beach diet.  The purpose is to shrink his liver so that the surgery will be easier.  He also stands to lose about 20 pounds in the process.

 Yesterday I traveled to Saskatoon for an appointment with my spiritual direction supervisor.  It was a good meeting.

I also used the opportunity to spend time with three of my kids there.  Patrick and Amanda and I went to lunch at Moxies.  Wow, have they redone their decor since I was there last.  Very posh.

Then to a very unposh but utilitarian recording studio to see Christian.  He is drumming for Josh Palmer and they are recording a disc.  They got a grant or something so they are working with a professional recording person and have been able to upgrade some of their equipment.  It was fun to listen in.  I was in the sound booth.  What an incredible mixer!

Then off to see Rachelle and Ronin.  Asen was studying at his place.  Took Rachelle out for an early supper.  By that time I could feel my cold begining to make my head ache and my eyes water.  Went to her place and crashed on her bed for an hour before driving home.

The ride home was god.  The roads were pretty clear.  The sky was also clear and out there in the middle of nowher, away from the city lights, they sparkled beautifully in the sky.  My headlights were so dim though that I had to get out and wash road gunk off them to see my way home.

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Reflecting on a quote from Morton Kelsey

This was an interesting bit out of a book I am reading , Discernment: A Study in Ecstasy and Evil by Morton Kelsey.

Many Christians have a strange attitude toward disbelief and disbelievers.  They treat them as the worst of sinners and shun them the way that many people shun the sick and the poor.  Yet if there is a meaningful reality which we humans can know and be touched by, and we are unable to find it, the trouble is with our understanding and with our experience; our morals are not defective.  Perhaps the reason for this attitude toward agnostics and atheists is the unconscious lack of belief on the part of many Christians in the last three or four hundred years.  Condemning others may well be the Christians’ personal reaction to their own unconscious doubt.  It threatens them to have to face and handle someone who does not believe as they say they do.

He goes on to describe practices that need to be evident in people who desire to help others, one of which is to be an example of the meaning to which they direct the person seeking meaning.  So, if I want to help anyone questioning issues of faith or the meaning of life, I must be living a life which has meaning, is authentic and consistent with my faith.  I will have had to have wrestled my way through some of the issues others face to a place of knowing who I am, some of what has meaning in life for myself and authentic faith lived out in action in my life. 

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Back to work

Good thing it is a short week. It was hard to go back to work today.

I guess a vacation is never long enough – until a person retires and then it could end up being too long.

I wonder….

Nope, I think that I will find plenty to do. But maybe I can work long spells of relaxation and reading into my schedule. Those will be the days!

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