The church of the future?
Saint Hilda's House in New Haven, Connecticut.
People living in community, with the community in which they live, serving Christ who is already there.
The priest of the future?
David of Wales.
It is said of David that he would tramp about the countryside visiting each farm in his charge. When he entered a house, he went to the kitchen and sat at the table with the family. Bread from the oven and wine from the cellar were put on the table and the Eucharist, the Holy Communion, was celebrated there with everyone sitting together.
The future of the Church?
God's mission is, and has always been, the reconciliation and restoration of all people to God, one another, and creation. This means God is at work forgiving us so we can forgive one another and so we can find God in one another's faces and live together in peace.
Between these two images, Saint Hilda's House and David of Wales, the Holy Spirit of God can rebuild the church as people seeing God at work around themselves and joining God in that work.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Saturday before Advent 2
...and I have no sermon for tomorrow. I have no idea, and I have too many ideas. I really hate Saturdays with no sermon for tomorrow.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Probably best left unsaid
I'm feeling so irrelevant today.
Oh well, tomorrow is my day off and I have a massage scheduled. Today I shall indulge myself with self-pity. Tomorrow all shall be well.
Oh well, tomorrow is my day off and I have a massage scheduled. Today I shall indulge myself with self-pity. Tomorrow all shall be well.
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Mako and Xena: The Movie
Silent? Actually, the sound is on - you will hear one bark in the middle. All the action, however, was indeed soundless. Friday, then Saturday.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
So far so good with the guest doggy
Night two and we all slept through! Not a waking or barking from one or from two.
The doggies are playing and rolling about. They're nipping and pushing but no need to shout.
Xena will not let that pup put her down. Oh yes, there goes Mako, on his back on the ground.
Xena is standing right over that dog. And he dares keep trying to treat her like a broad.
The humans are anxious. Why are not the dogs? It's Xena's house after all. And Mako knows.
O dear, they are coming right into my room! Both dogs in the office. Newlin, lower the boom!
Mako back to his kennel. Xena back to her room. A long weekend coming. May dog friendship bloom.
Watching a video of the two of them sparring. Suddenly, Mako makes it his job to protect the property from a truck coming into the parking lot. Xena backs right off. Mako stands his ground facing the truck until it's gone. Then the two of them go into detente. And when it gets rough, in the house and back to their respective quarters.
Mako is accustomed to spending the night in his human's basement, in the crate, alone. So I feel a little better that he's in our basement with his crate. But it is cute that he lies down on the landing in front of the kitchen door to the stairs, and that Xena knows he's there and sometimes whines a little his way.
Just for the record: Xena has had Mako on his back, dominating him, at least four times now, and Mako's score is zero. He has never had her off her feet. That's my pack leader girl!
Four more nights and three days, plus the rest of today, for our sins. Pray for all four of us!
And HAPPY TURKEY DAY!
The doggies are playing and rolling about. They're nipping and pushing but no need to shout.
Xena will not let that pup put her down. Oh yes, there goes Mako, on his back on the ground.
Xena is standing right over that dog. And he dares keep trying to treat her like a broad.
The humans are anxious. Why are not the dogs? It's Xena's house after all. And Mako knows.
O dear, they are coming right into my room! Both dogs in the office. Newlin, lower the boom!
Mako back to his kennel. Xena back to her room. A long weekend coming. May dog friendship bloom.
Watching a video of the two of them sparring. Suddenly, Mako makes it his job to protect the property from a truck coming into the parking lot. Xena backs right off. Mako stands his ground facing the truck until it's gone. Then the two of them go into detente. And when it gets rough, in the house and back to their respective quarters.
Mako is accustomed to spending the night in his human's basement, in the crate, alone. So I feel a little better that he's in our basement with his crate. But it is cute that he lies down on the landing in front of the kitchen door to the stairs, and that Xena knows he's there and sometimes whines a little his way.
Just for the record: Xena has had Mako on his back, dominating him, at least four times now, and Mako's score is zero. He has never had her off her feet. That's my pack leader girl!
Four more nights and three days, plus the rest of today, for our sins. Pray for all four of us!
And HAPPY TURKEY DAY!
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Remember Bring Your Daughter to Work Day with Xena?
Work has come to visit Xena at her home! Yes, Mako-the-shark-lab-pitbull mix has come to stay with us over the holiday. That's six nights and five days monitoring the behaviors of two dogs who have met one another exactly once. Yes, they spent that entire day together, if not companionably, at least in a state of detente. But in Xena's home? Where her job is to "Guard the House, Xena"?
I imagine by the end of the weekend all will be well. I think Newlin may be dossing down in a sleeping bag in the basement with Mako who is supposed to sleep in his crate. If only I weren't a natural born worrier and instead were a positive thinker...
Photos tomorrow? We shall see.
I imagine by the end of the weekend all will be well. I think Newlin may be dossing down in a sleeping bag in the basement with Mako who is supposed to sleep in his crate. If only I weren't a natural born worrier and instead were a positive thinker...
Photos tomorrow? We shall see.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Lewis Hamilton Wins!!!!
The first Grand Prix on U.S. soil since Hamilton won in 2007 at Indianapolis, and Lewis Hamilton wins again, in the first U.S. return race to the Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit in Austin, Texas.
The Circuit of the Americas road race track is totally brilliant. It and the drivers gave the fans a show not to be forgotten. The place was packed with spectators. And the job Texas did on this track is something to be proud of as a United Statesonian. Well done, y'all.
The Circuit of the Americas road race track is totally brilliant. It and the drivers gave the fans a show not to be forgotten. The place was packed with spectators. And the job Texas did on this track is something to be proud of as a United Statesonian. Well done, y'all.
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