Today we celebrate

It wrenches something deep inside.
And after, if you’re up for it, you can read Matt Mooney’s blog about his son.

In Plain Sight

We Mac owners are found of our gadgets. Even though there is lots of hype about the iPad, we know how to keep things simple too. Here’s a great way to guard your precious in plain sight … Bookbook.

Fits like your favourite pair of old jeans

it was said: Would it be okay to say that you being [there] seems a lot more ‘right’ than you being [here]? That’s just my personal view… when I think of you being back [there], it just seems to fit somehow. Not because of anything you say, although that does confirm it for me.

it was said: It makes me so sad that you have to endure such exhaustion at work everyday. I wish that wasn’t the case. Living and working when you’re not content is not how your life should be. I understand the exhaustion part but [my work] still brings me joy and is rewarding. I know that God will make it clear.

it was said: I was on campus today and it felt so right. I never even [attended there as a student] but seeing all these students socializing and being passionate about their studies… wow. I just felt today that, if I could, I would be a lifelong student. I just love the atmosphere and the feeling of community… like everyone has something in common. [Here] is so different.

it was said: Nice to hear about your experience. Try not to forget about that. I think it’s important to remember those places or moments when all things seemed to align. Maybe it’s that something in them resonates with God’s calling for our lives.

Work it not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker’s faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental, and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.
Creed or Chaos; Dorothy Sayers

Hear me asking where do I belong?
Is there a vision that I can call my own?
I’m looking for a reason …
I need your light to help me find
My place in this world
Place in this world; Michael W Smith

Monotony. Again.

Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, ‘Do it again’; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony.
It is possible that God says every morning, ‘Do it again’ to the sun; and every evening, ‘Do it again’ to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.
The repetition in Nature may not be mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore. Heaven may encore the bird who laid an egg. If the human being conceives and brings forth a human child instead of bringing forth a fish, or a bat, or a griffin, the reason may not be that we are fixed in an animal fate without life or purpose. It may be that our little tragedy has touched the gods, that they admire it from their starry galleries, and at the end of every human drama man is called again and again before the curtain.

GK Chesterson, Orthodoxy

Together

…Join the faithful and the doubter
In their common search for truth

Jesus calls us
Tune: 87 87 D
Words: John L Bell and Graham Maule
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