A Fransican Benediction
Teena shared this with me this morning. It's one of those "Yes/Ouch" things.May God bless you with discomfort ateasy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships,so that you may live deep within your heart.May God bless you with anger atinjustice, oppression, and exploitation of people,so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.May God bless you with tears to shedfor those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation and war,so that you may reach our your hand to comfort them and turn theirpain to joy.And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believethat you can make a diffe

Well Stated
This is a quotation at the beginning of Chapter 13 of Frank Viola's book "Finding Organic Church" (DC Cook 2009). It's by the late John A.T. Robinson, former Anglican bishop. Although, I do not agree with most of his theology (he was a universalist), he did a great job of illuminating the overall preoccupation and distrac

The Future Has Become Present
We have had conversations with many people who resonated to various degrees to what Teena and I envision. There has often been a need to explain or clarify some of what makes our hearts beat. Never have we had such free-flowing conversation until we met Ben and Rebekah Curfman. God has

Burning Questions
I found this while doing some web-surfing ("cowabunga"). The page has no dates and broken links. A friend of mine recently drew the same comparison of the use of "organic" with the food industry marketing strategy. "NOT to be confused with..." is all I can say.The questions asked have been on my mind and in my heart for several years. At first I thought "Purpose-Driven" was the answer, but eventually realized it was merely a racing stripe on a Model T.I love being stretched and then sharing the pain with others!The UK is facing an organic revival! Check out (sorry!) tesco.com and you can get organic everything from the standard organic fruit and veg

Cleared for Drywalling
I got to Java Journey shortly before 8 am to let 82-year old volunteer, Joe Guthrie, in so he could frame the doorway for the French doors. I knew the city inspector was coming later and I had to finish what he was going to review. We met Joe when he stopped by on a Saturday morning on July