May 2010
24 posts
“The believer’s cross is no longer any and ever kind of suffering,...”
– john yoder
“there is kind of knowing, a kind of powerful conviction, that comes from...”
– richard rohr [everything belongs, pg.123]
TELOS & ETHOS || DEATH AS A SHADOW OF THE NOW
Annie Dillard once said, “How we spend our days, is of course, how we spend our lives.” The telos we aim for, is in some certain way, connected to the ethos of our lived experience. And so it is when we reflect on our own end, termination and death—the way we die is in some certain way connected to how we have lived. The writers of the canonical gospels seem to entertain this idea as they...
annex
The story of Jesus told by Luke is quite interesting on many fronts. One of which is the way the writer seems to have the exodus story in the back drop of the two volume narrative he writes. Luke begins the writing of the infancy of Jesus as a parallel story to that of Moses. In Acts 2 at Pentecost (the celebration of Sinai—the point at which the Israelites receive from God, through Moses,...
love love
The reasons behind tears are irrational and therefore very interesting. I teared up viewing a Cigeros video, hearing a Tom Wright quote in class, responding to a friend saying some beautiful words my way, and finally at coffee expressing thoughts surrounding women’s liberation—all in the last 24 hours. If I were to take the rational route I would ask myself if I had consumed to much...
“there is nothing as toxic as a bad metaphor”
– d. augsburger
doing life
I read today that children ‘enter school as question marks and leave as periods’. Behind this statement is a long standing assumption. It goes something like, “you were made to produce” or “your value is intricately connected to what you can do, period.” The bible seems to subvert this whole idea with its central story, the exodus, being one completely at odds...
the oddness of jesus
Our identity is in some way wrapped up in what we think—even what we believe or trust about the world. What I allow my mind to trust, my self will entertain through the practice of these thoughts. When I think of places I imagine symbols first, then, once the symbols that makeup a place are remembered, I step back and perceive the place. There are the pieces of our lives as people and there...
handling the epic w/o hot pads
Things just came crashing down this week. It was like something hit me, hard. I could even feel it physically (hense some sickness) but could only work it out emotionally. It seems that there has been stresses, that appear absent from daily life, yet function as a weighty essence that I carry like a yoke on my neck. And the yoke just snapped leaving a bunch of stuff on the ground and me looking...
“creation is not an end in itself but an instrument of rescue”
– walter brueggemann
kicking the bucket
I took a trip up the coast about six weeks ago with: Steph, Shelton, Janna and Adam- this is them in order from left to right looking at the picture below. The week we spent had a deep sense of with-ness. I remember thinking that there was no place I’d rather be.
The other day I was meeting in a discussion group in this class I am taking on dying. My degree program is quite limited in the...
birds
been getting over you since i met you
its your melody im getting use to
passed the song and lullaby
through the prose and time gone by
to empty open chaos of your redescription
i guess im looking for a depiction
to live and see through
to die and be made new
and for the view to change once more
like birds opening their wings to soar
“when people are named from within ‘by god’, and the outer...”
– richard rohr
riot
I have had dreams of doing certain things. They don’t always make sense, nor do I always have a plan concerning how the next thing might come about. What I do have is a directional view when it comes to the next right step. That step is for me, and those who have felt the same way, a leading tugging concept that pulls till we loose our footing and begin to get lost in the ensuing adventure....
“love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly...”
– thomas merton