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Community Questions

Posted in Christianity, Longing for Heaven, Theology and Life on November 26, 2008 | 8 Comments »

A couple of you have asked about what has prompted my musings on community lately.  I hope it’s sufficient explanation to say I’ve been pretty significantly discouraged in that area.  My chief discouragement has been not just that I perceive that we, in churches today, so often do a poor job at cultivating community, but that there has additionally [...]

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The thing about growing mushrooms…

Posted in Dumb things I Do, Growing Things on November 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »

…is that you should really have a good plan for what you’re going to do with them.

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This month’s favorite

Posted in Blogging, Humor, tagged , on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So, have I mentioned yet that THIS is my current most favoritest most frequently read blog?

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Mushroom metaphors in the making

Posted in Beauty, Christianity, Depression, Growing Things on November 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I’m trying to decide which “growing mushrooms” metaphor to settle on. There’s clearly one waiting to be called into being right now. I don’t hesitate to find the metaphorical lessons in life around me, even when they border on banality. I’m well convinced that creation is to be one of our chief textbooks in the [...]

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Community II

Posted in Life, Longing for Heaven, tagged , on November 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »

 
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”      (C.S. Lewis)
 
“Jesus says, ‘By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to [...]

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Mushroom maturations

Posted in Growing Things on November 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Nudgers and shovers
In spite of ourselves.
Our kind multiplies:

We shall by morning
Inherit the earth
Our foot’s in the door.
 
(From “Mushrooms” by Sylvia Plath)
They’re growing! (Note the dime in the picture, for size reference)  And they’re tasty!
(You know, it has been rightly pointed out that all mushrooms are edible – once.)

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Community

Posted in Dumb things I Do, Longing for Heaven, tagged , on November 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I really am still alive.  And the mushrooms ARE growing (photos to follow…)  But tonight is the first time I’ve had in a good bit to slow down and catch up on blogs I like to read. 
So, browsing and reading tonight, I came across this (from Tim Chester’s blog – h.t. Finding Grace).  It said [...]

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