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October 20, 2004
10.20.04
GO BOSTON!!!
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October 18, 2004
fashion-
today on msn.com
"friends don't let friends wear ponchos"
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October 11, 2004
Eternity is a long time...
As I'm sure most people are aware, Christopher Reeve died yesturday. Normally something like this wouldn't phase me much. However, in the October issue of Reader's Digest they did a complete interview with Superman. I had just read the article a few weeks ago. They titled it "A decade later: hope, determination & faith." As I read through the questions and answers there was a paragraph at the end that got me thinking.
Reader's Digest: "You went nearly 50 years without religion in your life. What made you recetly join the Unitarian Church?"
Reeve: "It gives me a moral compass. I often refer to Abe Lincoln, who said, 'When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.' I think we all have a little voice inside us that guides us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do. The Unitarian believes that God is good, and believes that God believes that man is good. Inherently. The Unitarian God is not a God of vengance. And that is something I can appreciate."
I remember reading this article and sharing with someone later that day how I wanted to write Superman a letter and let him know that he hadn't figured out the answer. Who are we, little tiny people to stand up to the God of the universe and tell him how it is going to be? Because we feel we can appreciate something about him??? I don't know. My heart just broke when I read these words. I have no idea if I could have even found where to send him a letter... but now it is too late. He is gone. Forever. Eternity is a long time and it is scary to me how many people are hoping they have found the answer. And yet they are so far from the truth. It also scares me to think of all the times God provided for me to open my mouth and share my faith with people around me and I don't take opportunity share the wonderful love, peace, hope and security we have in Jesus.
John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whooever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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October 07, 2004
10.07.04
Verses for the day:
"Dear brothers & sisters, I close this letter with these last words: Rejoice. Change your ways. Encourage each other. Live in harmoney & peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you." - 2 Cor 13:11
I was thinking back to this last weekend when Mark went into detail about Paul's sufferings. It reminded me of how much Paul went through and how he still chose to rejoice. I love the way he puts it. "Rejoice." Not if I feel like it, not when it is convenient. Just rejoice.... even if it is Monday! (Which I am thankful that it is not Monday today, but rather Thursday!) :)
Quote of the week:
(said to me by a patient of ours who is 28 and very white!)
"Congrats on your bling bling!"
Wow.
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October 06, 2004
Isaiah 40:12-31
12Who else has held the oceans in his hand? Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers? Who else knows the weight of the earth or has weighed out the mountains and the hills? 13Who is able to advise the Spirit of the LORD? Who knows enough to be his teacher or counselor? 14Has the LORD ever needed anyone's advice? Does he need instruction about what is good or what is best? 15No, for all the nations of the world are nothing in comparison with him. They are but a drop in the bucket, dust on the scales. He picks up the islands as though they had no weight at all. 16All Lebanon's forests do not contain sufficient fuel to consume a sacrifice large enough to honor him. All Lebanon's sacrificial animals would not make an offering worthy of our God. 17The nations of the world are as nothing to him. In his eyes they are less than nothing--mere emptiness and froth.
18To whom, then, can we compare God? What image might we find to resemble him? 19Can he be compared to an idol formed in a mold, overlaid with gold, and decorated with silver chains? 20Or is a poor person's wooden idol better? Can God be compared to an idol that must be placed on a stand so it won't fall down?
21Have you never heard or understood? Are you deaf to the words of God--the words he gave before the world began? Are you so ignorant? 22It is God who sits above the circle of the earth. The people below must seem to him like grasshoppers! He is the one who spreads out the heavens like a curtain and makes his tent from them. 23He judges the great people of the world and brings them all to nothing. 24They hardly get started, barely taking root, when he blows on them and their work withers. The wind carries them off like straw.
25"To whom will you compare me? Who is my equal?" asks the Holy One.
26Look up into the heavens. Who created all the stars? He brings them out one after another, calling each by its name. And he counts them to see that none are lost or have strayed away.
27O Israel, how can you say the LORD does not see your troubles? How can you say God refuses to hear your case? 28Have you never heard or understood? Don't you know that the LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth? He never grows faint or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding. 29He gives power to those who are tired and worn out; he offers strength to the weak. 30Even youths will become exhausted, and young men will give up. 31But those who wait on the LORD will find new strength. They will fly high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.
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