Yesterday, at a library book fair, I picked up a copy of the 1559 Book of Common Prayer.  My ancestors are probably spinning in their graves.  *g ( Read more... )

It occured to me that it is a condition of life on earth that we will always have unfulfilled desires.  If I somehow got a thing I wanted with all my heart, it wouldn't quench my desire.  And not even because of bad desires.  It's the condition of living in a broken world.  It is never perfectAlso I thought about how when we're faced with a hard ( Read more... )

Reason why my church is awesome, number six zillion and three: the latest church cookbook has a recipe for Fruity Oaty Bars.

I know it's not a coincidence because the person who submitted it is a known Firefly fan and has a degree in the culinary arts.  I'm gonna have to try making the recipe one of these days ( Read more... )

At our church small group thingy today, one couple's Filipino daughter-in-law Maria was visiting, and we got on the subject of idioms in language.  She's pretty fluent in English, but there's plenty that trips her up.  Leonard brought up the phrase "kick off", as in kicking off an event.  "We kick off everything," he said, and explained how it had ( Read more... )

Ah, the confusion in my brain, the complexity of the world and the intricacies of human experience!  AD/HD or not, this world is a bewildering place to live ( Read more... )

Am attempting to find a good pair of knee-high riding boots.  Not much luck.

Am also attempting to find what I can on the spiritual gift of prophecy by people whose theology I feel I can trust, and not much luck there, either.

( I didn't want to see that )

Today I tried out for a Christmas drama at my church.  Though I might not be able to be in it anyway, as the tentative performance dates are the same weekend as the annual choir Christmas concert, which I am very much not going to skip.  But it was fun.  I've always wanted to do drama, but other stuff has come first ( Read more... )

The weather here was brutal today.  Hot, yes, but also suffocatingly humid.  I tried to wear something cool and breezy to church, and still switched to my very lightest clothes the minute I got home.  Well, I suppose we were due.  We somehow got through July without hitting 100F ( Read more... )

Got the news yesterday evening that one of my coworkers, who is also one of my fellow church members, got in a bad bike accident.  And is having surgery on his face.  It was odd; everybody at work who I know from church had heard about it, but there was no official announcement or news running around the company.  You'd think they'd say something ( Read more... )

Liked Google's April Fools prank yesterday.  Nobody'd spoiled me for it, so it was like, "Hey, Topeka!"  It helps that "Topeka" is fun to say.  Topeka, Topeka, Topeka ( Read more... )