Ian’s found some error messages we can all understand and enjoy.
Barbara Curtis of Mommy Life has a great slide show of pictures she took at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. on Monday, January 22nd. I missed out on the whole anniversary of Roe vs. Wade commemoration this year, but I have not forgotten those who have died in the name of Choice and Reproductive Freedom.
At a Hen’s Pace on monastic communities and their integration with or relation to the everyday world. I’m always interested in posts and articles and books on this subject. How do we create, or allow God to create, community in the (post)modern world?
From the new-to-me blog Claw of the Conciliator: “At the very least, I think that the experience of being launched outside one’s quotidian, self-centered world, and the impulse to awe-struck wonder, are shared by science and religion. So it’s no wonder that a lot of people delight in both at the same time, and don’t want to have to choose just the one or the other. It’s not surprising that someone as brilliant as Isaac Newton spent more time doing theology and biblical studies than he did on science. Even a hard-headed skeptic like Martin Gardner can be a devoted fan of the laughing, joyous, poetic spirituality of G.K. Chesterton.”
At another new-to-me blog, Vivid Just Like You, Denise writes about Transformation: “I learned to cook, penciling notes in the margins, and bought my first bottle of wine. I began to look for the grace that creeps through the cracks of our lives, usually through the flukes and mistakes and the feeling that we don’t know what on earth we are doing. I embraced the mysteries my mind cannot touch. I didn’t give up on my teenage faith: I filled it, or left it open at last for God to fill to overflowing.
I, too, am interested in the incorporation of monastic practices into the quotidian life. Thanks for sharing the blog.
Thanks for the links! I especially enjoyed reading Vivid Just Like You. It is always good when one finds people who paints with words like artists paint with oils and watercolors. 🙂
How did you find me? I’m just curious. Thank you for linking to me– I hope you enjoyed reading, and come by again. There’s always more.
… and thanks, again, to Coffeetea, for the glowing compliment. I’ve been writing in a journal all of my life, but for public only in the past two years. It surprises me, the power in this process. I’m leaning into that MFA in Creative Writing with all my might!
I suppose the silly confession is that I last read George MacDonald perhaps twenty years ago– though my son just asked if I would read him The Back of the North Wind, which a teacher read to him at school. My favorite professor in college was a MacDonald scholar, an Inklings fan– and a math professor, if you can believe that. The Capon mentioned in the same essay is ever-current, though: I re-read that 1969 cookbook every few years.
Come by, any time. And I’m glad there are such good readers out there. I’ll be checking out some of your links, thank you.
Sherry–
Just catching up here after my breathless Cinderella week last week. Thanks so much for the link!
Jeanne