In case anyone is wondering, if I had been asked to pray at the Inauguration I would not have closed with the Lord’s Prayer. I know I’m making a number of assumptions here but I didn’t want any of you (all 3 of you who read this blog!) to lose sleep over this.
Here is why: [...]
Archive for January, 2009
If I was asked to pray at the inauguration…
Posted in PCUSA, faith, musings, politics on January 31, 2009 | 7 Comments »
A Part of History
Posted in faith, family, musings, politics on January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We did it. Yes, we knew it would be cold. Yes, we knew the crowds would be insane. Yes, we knew we had to be there.
Back in 1993 a group of us went to Clinton’s inauguration. It was our last January class and we needed to take something so we created an independent study on [...]
Blinders
Posted in faith, family, palestine/israel, politics, tagged Gaza, hope, Inauguration, israel, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin's Big Words on January 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
[image from www.perceptivetravel.com]
Blinders are such a hassle. Unless you’re a race horse, I guess.
K2 read to me the story Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. tonight as I tucked her into bed. Tomorrow we leave for Washington, D.C. for the inauguration. She reads with great inflection for an eight year [...]
Moving beyond the violence
Posted in PCUSA, faith, musings, palestine/israel, politics on January 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I can’t quite wrap my head around the numbers: one third of the dead in Gaza are children. I’m sure the numbers of Israeli children killed over the course of the never ending bloodshed in the Middle East is equally distressing. In the midst of all the horrific news I heard a brief conversation between [...]
New Year – New Word
Posted in faith, musings, tagged Christine Kane, new year's resolution, word of the year on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I knew it would finally hit me when I least expected… today, as I sat in the pew (an oddity to be sure!) I held the piece of bread in my hand, closed my eyes and listened to Christian and Sarah sing and the word came – center. Yep, center. I’m trying to slow down, [...]
