Month: August 2018
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YOLO, T/F?
You Only Live Once? False. You live every day; you only die once. [Let’s spend the month of August 2018 looking at some quotes, lines, memes, and other timeless ephemera — how’s that for an oxymoron? — that are too good not to share. Let’s contextualize some, let’s dissect others, and let’s simply enjoy still…
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Change the World
Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for one person. “If you have the world’s goods and see someone in need, yet close your heart against that someone, how does God’s love abide in you?” (1st John 3:17) [Let’s spend the month of August 2018 looking at…
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Even I Can Balter
[Let’s spend the month of August 2018 looking at some quotes, lines, memes, and other timeless ephemera — how’s that for an oxymoron? — that are too good not to share. Let’s contextualize some, let’s dissect others, and let’s simply enjoy still others. Let’s go!]
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Gloria Dei est vivens homo!
“God’s greatest glory is a human being fully alive.” — St. Irenaeus [Let’s spend the month of August 2018 looking at some quotes, lines, memes, and other timeless ephemera — how’s that for an oxymoron? — that are too good not to share. Let’s contextualize some, let’s dissect others, and let’s simply enjoy still others.…
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Where’s Jesus?
Every time we use religion to draw a line to keep people out, Jesus is with the people on the other side of that line. — Hugh L. Hollowell [Let’s spend the month of August 2018 looking at some quotes, lines, memes, and other timeless ephemera — how’s that for an oxymoron? — that…
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Is The Bride of Christ Part of Generation Wealth?
“The pithiest scene in Lauren Greenfield’s new documentary, Generation Wealth, comes at the start,” wrote Anthony Lane in film review in the July 23, 2018 issue of “The New Yorker.” He continued, “You could run it on a loop as a video installation, over and over, until its strange satirical bite becomes too painful to endure. “All…
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Vowel Renewal
Today Patty and I are renewing our wedding vows. I’d like to do this annually, but she says that’s overdoing things. (Imagine that! And, well, yeah, so?) We renewed them once before in the middle of a trip on our tenth anniversary. Great story there; ask me about it sometime. A very young fashion model…
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Too Busy These Days?
WARNING: If you don’t schedule time for maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you. [Let’s spend the month of August 2018 looking at some quotes, lines, memes, and other timeless ephemera — how’s that for an oxymoron? — that are too good not to share. Let’s contextualize some, let’s dissect others, and let’s…
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Which Are You?
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” — Bob Marley [Let’s spend the month of August 2018 looking at some quotes, lines, memes, and other timeless ephemera — how’s that for an oxymoron? — that are too good not to share. Let’s contextualize some, let’s dissect others, and let’s simply enjoy still others.…
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When God Thunders
Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God. — Richard Rohr “I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies,” thunders God in Amos 5:21. [Let’s spend the month of August 2018 looking at some quotes, lines, memes, and other timeless ephemera — how’s that for…