A Mending Shift

a bird sings, not because if has an answer to give, but because it has a song to sing … this is my song

Mending Shift on the Radio: The War is Over

| January 8, 2009

Share Glenn Kline and Michael Williams read and discuss a post I wrote, The War is Over, on the radio. It is a surreal experience hearing something you’ve written read on-air. Enjoy! (He has the radio voice I wish I had) Listen here (5-min): The-War-is-Over.wma (Note, MAC users may need to download the file by [...]

The War is Over

| January 7, 2009

Share The War is Over. That is what the leaflets dropped over the Philippines by the U.S. after WWII read. The War is Over. In other words, we, as the United States of America, were saying: We are no longer trying to kill you. As far as we are concerned, you are no longer our [...]

Thanks Alan — Scripture As We Live It

| November 16, 2008

ShareOnce in a while Alan over at The Assembling of the Church writes what he calls, “Scripture As We Live It”. The crossed out parts are what the writers of scripture wrote and the red parts is how we typically live out our faith today, which really reveals how we believe. This one got my [...]

Questions

| November 11, 2008

Share What would you believe if you weren’t taught what you believe? [In other words, do you believe what you believe simply because you were taught to believe it or because you really believe it? Deep down, what do you believe? Sometimes it looks like what you want to believe is true but were taught [...]

We Love Beautiful

| November 10, 2008

Share I am getting more and more convinced that for us to truly love someone we need to see them as beautiful; to see their beauty, their dignity, their worth, their value. If we do not see beauty in the other I believe we cannot truly love them or even claim that we love them. [...]

Belief and Seeing

| September 18, 2008

ShareYour beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see, and they will not be a substitute for seeing. – Flannery O’Connor Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what is the use of seeing? – Thich Nhat Hanh

The New Modern Translation of John 3:16 and 17

| September 5, 2008

Share“For God so loved the world some of the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes [the way I do] in him shall not perish burn forever in Hell but have eternal life live forever in Heaven. For God did not send his Son into the world to earth to [...]