Sun. Dec. 2, 2012

Last night I read the d'var Torah that Velveteen Rabbi offered that morning at her shul on this week's parsha, "Vayishlach."

She talks about Jacob wrestling with the angel and says:Having received a new name, Jacob bestows a new name: he names that place, that bend in the river, Peni'el, literally "the face of God," saying, "For ( Read more... )

Marla: "The eye of the storm's gonna be right over your house -- the way the storm's tracking right now. Close to my house, but centered more like over your house."

Promenade Cab Company says the cash rate to the airport is ~$70 -- whereas if I paid by credit card they'd run the meter and it'd be ~$120. Whoda thunk? So yeah, I paid the surcharge to get cash from the ATM in the hotel (closest BoA ATM is in Solvang -- even farther out than we were on Sunday ( Read more... )

Hospital visits ftw ( Read more... )

No one from CWM is available to person a table at TBC this year (I'm attending TBC, but I am booked up with attending things and am totally not that kind of extrovert anyway), so we're just purchasing an ad.

TBC Vendor Person Ian wrote:Thank you so much for the ad, we really appreciate it. Hopefully we can work out something more for next year. ( Read more... )

Have I mentioned that I was maybe not going to overcommit myself? Probably not explicitly, though I think it was implied when I said I was considering not picking up a new Sunday morning church -- taking sabbath time instead. My idea was that there are things I really care about, and I should devote my time and energy there, growing myself and ( Read more... )

In her sermon last night, Marla said something was "insane" (as in, "ridiculous," whatever) and I opted not to interrupt her, but I did want to bring it up to her. So I emailed her this afternoon. She replied:Thanks for this, Elizabeth, and I'm glad you brought it to me... this is one potential danger of having no script (or going off of it). ( Read more... )

So, we're about ten minutes into service, and Tiffany's doing the Children's Time, and she talks about how the people after Jesus were sad that they didn't know Jesus, and something about the way she says it, even before she gets to the, "And Paul said to them ... [2 Cor. 3:17-4:1]," I realize that yeah, this is about carrying on in the absence of ( Read more... )

Before CHPC service started, Karl asked if anyone wanted to be the reader -- Jeff was supposed to but was away.  I gladly volunteered ( Read more... )

I went and found Laura Ruth before service to confirm that I could move the long table out of the chapel and back into Fellowship Hall ( Read more... )