I don’t normally watch “the House of Payne.” It isn’t something that crosses my radar and when I see it in the guide, I never think to stop and watch. In fact, I never just flip through the channels, I look at the guide on our dish and chose my television shows accordingly. But this…
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the one we are waiting for
A couple of weeks ago, our president spoke before the nation and an audience at West Point to announce a surge in military personnel in Afghanistan. This on the heels of being named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. And only a week before Barack Obama accepted the prize in Oslo. The two are in so many…
Butternut Squash Ravioli
This recipe is kind of thrown together out of various things that I found online… First, roast your butternut squash 1) preheat oven to 400 degrees 2) cut squash into wedges and spoon away the seeds and pulp 3) sprinkle wedges with cinnamon and cumin – light dusting of each. I normally do the cinnamon…
focus.
Last night I watched Julie & Julia. And as an amateur blogger, I thought a lot about one of the key pieces of her success – she had a focus. She knew what she wanted to do and by golly was going to do it. And she had a process for doing it. I tend…
calls for justice in the midst of advent joy
This coming Sunday we will light the third candle on the Advent wreath – the candle for JOY. We hear in the midst of this call to rejoice, however, a very startling message. John the baptist calls out to the crowds: You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?…
kitchen sitting
One of my favorite holiday activities is sitting in the kitchen and hearing stories. I’m at my grandpas right now – our christmas house – and already the warm and familiar smells of coffee and bacon are filling the air. Slowly people will start to emerge from all of the various places they crashed. The…
Lost my religion… or my religion lost me
Francisco Viri, “The Agnostic Survivor”, Watercolor, 56 x 39 cms., 2002 As many of you know – my husband isn’t involved at all in church life. This whole church and religion thing just isn’t what makes him comfortable and he’s definately not sure that he wants to swallow the “truth” of the church hook, line…
entering the fray: Psalm 109
For those of you who might have missed it, there has been a wave of t-shirts, bumper stickers and other such things that say “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8” On first glance, you think – oh, that’s nice. Of course we should pray for our leaders. And then you read the actual verse: May his…