It is officially Holy Week, everyone. I had the opportunity to write a devotion for Good Friday, and have it posted on the General Board of Global Ministries website. It was a challenge for me to write about this holiday, because I no longer interpret Jesus’ crucifixion in a traditional way. If you click on the [...]
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my Good Friday devotion
Posted in God, family, missionary, prayer, writing on April 5, 2009 | 7 Comments »
a poem
Posted in God, books, writing on March 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My coworker just published a book of sonnets about a young girl training to be a detective. He graciously put a copy in each of our office mailboxes.
Here is one sonnet I’d like to share with you (though you might be wondering what this poem has to do with a detective academy—I don’t know yet—I [...]
journal collage
Posted in friendship, writing on March 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My best friend and I developed a practice of magazine collages. I think it started with our planner covers in high school. Then it migrated to our journals. Now we use it on our snail-mail letter envelopes. I wish I could show you more than one collage, but my old journals are kept in my [...]
just you and me
Posted in writing on January 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
To write a diary, I have thought of very often at far and near distances of time: but how could I write a diary without throwing upon paper my thoughts, all my thoughts – the thoughts of my heart as well as of my head? – & then how could I bear to look on [...]
a quote from /Grace (Eventually)/
Posted in God, books, writing on January 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve found that when you give up on using your mind to solve a problem—which your mind is holding on to like a dog with a chew toy—writing it down helps turn off the terrible alertness. When you’re not siphoned into the black hole of worried control and playing fretful Savior, turning the problem [...]
one mo’ time
Posted in classes, writing on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote about six columns for our campus newspaper during my time there. This may be my seventh, published posthumously (or post-graduation-ly). I’m glad they saved it and published it even though I’m gone. And I feel proud when I look at the little bio. at the end:
Religion courses provide insight
the 100th post!
Posted in God, books, writing on September 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This is my 100th blog post! Not to brag or anything, but my blog has brought many great projects to fruition. For instance, thanks to my blog, at least ten other people have created blogs. (I can’t claim that I started it, though. First a college classmate made a great blog…then my best friend tried [...]
tasks I have done so far
Posted in missionary, money, work, writing on August 23, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Yesterday marked one week since I officially began work at my missionary site. Here is an undoubtedly incomplete list of tasks I have done so far:
meet with people who come into the food pantry and record their orders
fill people’s orders in the food pantry (with canned goods, boxed dinners, snacks, etc.)
interview someone for a member [...]
letter to the editor of /Oprah/
Posted in friendship, writing on July 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Check out the August 2008 issue of O: The Oprah Magazine, and you’ll see that my letter to the editor got published! I had written to the magazine, criticizing them for inconsistency. They had a recent cover that urged readers to say bye-bye to feeling bad about their bodies…but also on that cover was a [...]
dreams and realities
Posted in books, family, food, missionary, money, music, writing on June 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
dreams
1. Someday I’d like to record the 1,037-page book Gone with the Wind for its release on audio CD. As far as I can tell, it’s only available on audio cassette, and I want to usher GWTW into the 21st century. I do a pretty good impression of Belle Watling, but the rest of the [...]
