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| Today's Prayer from Os Hillman |
[11.10.09] |
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Dear Jesus,
You are the key to my happiness. You are the key to my life. You are the key to my future. I have heard You knocking and I'm opening the door. Please come into my heart and guide my every thought and move. Bless me and make me a blessing to others. In Your precious name, I pray.
Amen.
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| nanojoummo- union |
[11.10.09] |
NaNoJouMo- Union
Originally uploaded by lessherger.
I did this image for union. I used it as a technique video as well, you can find it on youtube. I started by putting a THICK layer of white acrylic paint on the background. I scratched into it to write. I used a mask to keep the center area white while I built up layers of color and grunge around it. I then pulled the mask off and added a layer of clear gesso, I could have used white but the clear left the little bits of color that made their way under the mask. I drew the face of the sheep in with soft pencil and white acrylic paint. I then added the original queen of merde image with a dragon from a bacardi ad wrapped around her head. I'm very happy with how this turned out.
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| Today's Prayer from Os Hillman |
[11.09.09] |
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Dear God,
Your Word says "those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint" (Isaiah 40:31). Please renew my strength; help me to run this race of life and live for you without becoming weary; help me to stand for what's right, to walk forward and not faint. Thank You for Your promises. Thank You for lifting me up and sustaining me. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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[11.08.09] |
Humans' limited ability to empathize is for our own good
It would be superhuman, in the grandest sense, to truly and deeply suffer with those who are burying a beloved son in an Ohio graveyard, with those who saw their home and entire community washed away by a typhoon, with those in the world who are being tortured right now. It would require an unfathomable omniscience and immunity to time.
The essay doesn't mention this at all, and I'm not sure if it's intended or not, but when I got to this point in the article, I couldn't help but think about Jesus, and that God has exactly that perspective on us and our experiences. It's a little odd to think about it this way, because everyone seems to think that we should always be more caring about everything, but it is a blessing that we aren't, that we would be paralyzed with sadness and overwhelmed with the enormity of the problems and unable to do anything about it, whereas with some detachment from the emotional connections we are actually able to do work that will help. Balance is key, as always.
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[11.08.09] |
When you picture yourself with God, what do you see? Do you picture the two of you playing catch in the park, or swimming in the ocean?
We were asked this question in church today, and for the first time in my life I was able to answer something other than "I have no idea."
( First time for everything :) )
For those of you who don't mind sharing, I'm curious as to what you all see as well when you picture God. Is it something you've ever thought about before, or have ever been able to come up with an answer?
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| Prayer request |
[11.08.09] |
Would you please pray for a little baby boy named Jared? He's very sick, apparently he cannot eat right now and he's just not doing well at ALL and is in the hospital.
Thank you.
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| Vocation and Prayer |
[11.07.09] |
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In response to the Holy Father's recent call to use the internet as a means of positive communication of the Church's mission, I've decided to start offering an occasional, perhaps weekly podcast. I just uploaded my second one, which discusses the relationship between vocation and prayer. If anyone is interested, it can be found here.
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| some new work |
[11.08.09] |
nanojoumo- purity
Originally uploaded by lessherger.
I get a kick out of all the online "purity" groups. SO when the word purity came up for nanojoumo day 2 I had to lampoon it. The purity "logo" was put online as a purity card for a church gorup. It looks far cooler here than it did on the card. I pulled the card in to MS Publisher, reversed it and resized it to be about 8x10, i then printed it off onto a sheet of transparency film. I put it on the right side of the film this time and used a great deal of matte medium to transfer it to the pages.I had to cut it into 2 pieces to get it on, and I'll tell you the fold was a beast. the original logo was clearly going for a "urban and graf" feel. So the tendency of the transfer to peel and not go completely was a perfect medium to really take it there. I then outlined the letters with my pentouch pen, pressed down to get dribbles and runs. While that dried I looked at hundreds of images of scantily clad women bent over various objects, and quite frankly there are things that can't be unseen. Just the very act of attempting to find the image for the right corner has left my brain irreparably damaged. The things I do for art. I found the perfect picture, of a woman, scantily clad washing a car. I wanted the legs to frame the corner, so I first drew the leg for the right most side in soft pencil, added the crotch area and then the left leg. Next was to mix up some white person flesh tone and layer it over the drawing. I added her thong and it's all set. I blocked in some green coloring to set off the legs. Then I mixed up some gesso really thin and used a liner brush to spatter it on the page...
Maybe not the most pure purity page, but it's exactly what popped into my head when I first saw the word as the prompt.
( more pics after the cut )
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I'm curious to know how many of you work in your journals on a daily basis. I would love to get into the habbit of working in my journal daily.
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| Fr. Ted Tack, OSA on St. Augustine's Relevance Today |
[11.07.09] |
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This past Thursday, Fr. Ted Tack, the former Prior General of the Order of St. Augustine, gave a talk at Villanova University on the spirituality of St. Augustine and his relevance today. I attended the talk and it was quite excellent. I recorded it and have made it available online. If anyone is interested in listening, you can find it here. From that link you may either listen to it online or download it to your computer. Enjoy!
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| Anglicanism and Intentional Community |
[11.07.09] |
I've stumbled across some interesting snippets talking about Intentional Community in an Anglican Emergent context.I find this very exciting, having done intentional community before and having a keen interest in how relational Christian practice is formed. Some links might be interesting, including this Anglican "order" from New Zealand:
http://www.oss.net.nz/about.html
The Anglican Intentional community movement has been bigger in the UK then it has been here int he US, but it's growing rapidly with some rather amazing results. I think for any Christian, while community means different things, it has the potential to bring about a real transformation. My community wasn't amazingly intentional, and we certainly had our ups and downs, but we still had a cohesiveness and a prayer-life that produced some amazing growth, healing, and change not just in me, but in the others in the house. We weren't an "Anglican" community, but rather an Episcopal Intern Community with members of various denominations, who followed spiritual disciplines and a rule of life that was based on an Anglican framework.
Vineyard, the church movement I identify myself with and have been a part of, is very relational in terms of small cell groups, but does not have the capacity for intentional community. My goal now, rather then focusing on being in a physical community sharing a physical space, is to be more intentional about my relationships with those I worship with, and to hone my own rule of life in a way that allows me to harness some of the basic elements that were so life-giving when I lived in community.
Here's an interesting Welsh community and a link to the better known Iona community:
http://www.colegygroes.co.uk/community.htm
http://www.iona.org.uk/
If any folks here from the UK know of any to add to this list, please do! Some day I would love to travel around the UK and perhaps visit one of these communities. I don't think I'm the only person here to see a need for intentional communities.
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| Faith-based Environmentalism |
[11.06.09] |
"Floating just off Greenland’s ever less icy shore, a boatload of religious leaders, alongside scientists, environmentalists, and politicians, gazed meditatively at the rapidly melting Ilulissat glacier. “Surrounded by icebergs, Sunni, Shiite, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Christian, and Shinto leaders committed themselves last Friday to leave the planet ‘in all its wisdom and beauty to the generations to come,’” Colin Woodard wrote in the Christian Science Monitor.."
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/csrpl/RINVol10No3/Faith-based%20Environmentalism.htm
"Creating consciousness of our responsibility, for respect and protection of the
natural environment of the planet, of which we are simply stewards and not
owners." The Green Patriarch, Bartholomew of Constantinople.
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| Evolution and Adam and Eve |
[11.06.09] |
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For those of you who believe in theistic evolution, how do you reconcile this with the story of Adam and Eve and Christ's redemption of humanity's sins? Do you believe in the literal account of the fall of humanity as presented in Genesis or have you come to another conclusion?
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| Encountering the Mystery |
[11.06.09] |
I watched the end of an interview on public channel 13
with Charlie Rose and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople.
His book Encountering the Mystery is well written and researched.
What I liked about it is that is stresses, the sacraments in
non abstract language applied in practical daily living.
http://www.antiochian.org/node/17473
here is the transcript and below I will note
the passages that I found most interesting.
http://www.charlierose.com/download/transcript/10696
CHARLIE ROSE: "One might ask with respect, is the church doing enough?
Is the church communicating well enough, whether it’s Islam, whether it’s
Christianity, whether it’s Judaism? It’s a huge responsibility to have us
understand values, fairness, equity.
ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW: To be honest, no.
Religion has done a lot throughout the centuries for us Christians,
Christianity gives the strongest message, and the essence of our Christian
faith is love and respect for the human person.
But neither Christianity nor the other monotheistic religions
succeeded to bring peace and love and respect all over the globe as we
experience it every day.
Because representatives of religions are also human beings, it means
not perfect. They have their own the things, they have their own
incapacities and willingness to fulfill their sacred responsibilities, and
sometimes not internal but objective, external reasons prohibit us to
fulfill our sacred mission and task.
And that is why whatever religions proclaim and promise is not the
reality in the life of humanity."
At first glance one might think that this is negative towards the church
but the message is very important as it turns one to personal,
individual responsibility.
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