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Sunday, October 27, 2002
I found out today while blog-surfing that one of my favorite actors, Richard Harris, died Friday. He was most recently known for his protrayal of Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts in "Harry Potter". Fans of films about or made in Ireland will likely remember him from "The Field". Read one blogger's obituary here.
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0 comments | I've added a new link to the side, thanks to Fenian Ramblings. He's created a new blog to answer FAQ's about Fenian history. If you're interested in finding out more about Irish history and current events, check it out. posted by #Debi at 10:18 AM | permalink |
0 comments | Through a convoluted trail of blog-hopping, I came across Doonesbury's web site, enticed by the fact that the strips from Oct. 21-26 are about blogging. Enjoy! posted by #Debi at 8:04 AM | permalink |
0 comments | Saturday, October 26, 2002 Thanks once again to Andrew Careaga for the latest online quiz: I am 25% Internet Addict (I actually have taken this test before, a couple of months ago, and my score is increasing. I wonder what that means?) posted by #Debi at 12:34 PM | permalink |
0 comments | Friday, October 25, 2002 A friend of mine sent me this via e-mail and it's pretty cool. Just click on the link and follow the instructions once you get there. I went to the endocrinologist this morning, and things went well. I asked Dr. Boggess about cutting back my meds again, and she said she'd take a look at my blood work and then maybe. I was encouraged that she didn't just flat out say, "No." So be praying for me if you think of it. I've been on this medication, propylthiouracil (PTU), for about a year now, and I gained 40 pounds the first 6 months I was on it. At that point I was disgusted and asked her to cut back the medicine, and she did, from 9 pills a day to 6. The weight gain stopped, but I can't seem to lose any weight, even though the girls at work told me I never eat anything (they don't see me at home in the evenings :^} ), and I've started walking about 1 1/2 to 2 miles a day. If she cuts the meds back again, maybe it would help with the "no energy" thing and I could get some of this off me. I've been told that it was a miracle of sorts that she cut me back the first time, and I think God has one or two more miracles up His sleeve, so...... posted by #Debi at 4:50 PM | permalink |
0 comments | I updated one of the links to the side, the one for The Ulster Project. What I originally had up was the URL for the Northern KY/Cincinnati branch, which really didn't have all that much info about the organization as a whole. The link now takes you to the main website for the national organization, and has much more info. Check it out! posted by #Debi at 7:31 AM | permalink |
0 comments | Thursday, October 24, 2002 I'm taking a "mini-break",as they say in "Bridget Jones' Diary", except I'm not going off anywhere. I took today and tomorrow off for a 4-day weekend so that I can catch up on housecleaning, chill out, and just have some "me time". I have 4 major rooms in my apartment, so I plan to break things up and overhaul one room per day. (That's the plan, anyway.) I also have an appointment with the endocrinologist tomorrow, so I'm hoping that goes well. "Well" for me would entail her telling me that I'm doing so well that I can back off more on the medicine, or even that I don't have to take it anymore. We'll see. I'm ready to be healed, Lord! posted by #Debi at 11:46 AM | permalink |
0 comments | Monday, October 21, 2002 Here's my new dream car. posted by #Debi at 9:07 PM | permalink |
0 comments | Still playing catch-up on reading the blogs....here's a great tidbit from Simple Complexities that underscores some things I've been rolling around in my head lately:"...most of my adult life has been consumed with testing God. Testing is so close to Trusting that it is easy to confuse the two. The 40 day fast of Jesus models trust for us and it is there that we hear him say, "Do not test the Lord your God." What's the difference? I still cannot say that I fully know, but I am inclined to believe that Trust is knowing that God will be on the other side of whatever leap is next. Test is jumping just to see if God is there to catch. Trust comes from being full while the test is an act of empty desperation." I've been on both sides of this equation lately, and can definitely relate to the confusion factor. posted by #Debi at 5:52 PM | permalink |
0 comments | Sunday, October 20, 2002 Well, I'm back on my own computer again. Got the phone line situation sorted out for a while anyway. I talked to Alltel and apparently they are just more expensive than Verizon was for the same service, which bites a little. I may have other options, though--there are other places in town who offer home telephone service. I may check some of them out and see just how they work. I'm not certain I can use them for hooking up to the Internet, but then again I'm such a techno-dunce sometimes--who knows? I've been spending a good bit of my "time off" from the net reading The iMac For Dummies, a book I bought when I got the computer because they don't come with an operator's manual. A lot of the info is stuff I already have picked up along the way, but there have been some handy shortcuts I've learned, especially in the area of word processing. I've also been trying to get through "Anam Cara", but it's proving to be difficult. I know I said that thing about hay and chaff, but when it becomes almost entirely chaff, eventually you need to move on or starve. I'm on page 58 of 231, and the author has moved almost entirely off the subject of "soul friends" as the guy defined it in the seminar I attended, and is spending all of his time talking about subjects like, "the infinity of your interiority" and "the senses as thresholds of soul". Letting one's senses define and determine the condition and progress of one's spirituality seems to fly in the face of orthodox (small "o") Christian teaching, or at least the way I was "brought up" spiritually. The Bible seems to me to teach more about not letting the tangible get in the way of what is happening on a spiritual level--not letting your circumstances affect the inner truth of what God is doing in your life. This brings to mind something I read on Kevin Rains' blog and told him I was likely to "steal". Here's the quote: posted by #Debi at 1:16 PM | permalink |
0 comments | Sunday, October 13, 2002 OK, you know what they say, third time's the charm.......this is the third attempt to post this entry. I screwed up twice because I'm on the Creeches' computer. Even though it's a Mac, and I have an iMac, Alan's got OSX, which operates a little differently from my OS9 setup. The reason I'm doing this here instead of blogging from home is that I came home Friday to discover that my telephone line has been "temporarily disconnected." This is Alltel's way of saying, "Pay up or no more access for you, little missy!" I, of course, knew that I was behind in paying the phone bill, so I don't really blame Alltel for cutting me off, but funds have been extremely scarce this summer, and I figured the car was more important than the phone. I have tried to negotiate with Alltel to make a partial payment, but was told that that was not acceptable. I hate having to pick and choose which bills to pay. I want to pay every bill as soon as it arrives, but I haven't been able to do that for a couple of years now. I'm mainly saying all this to let everyone know that it may be a while before the next entry and why. Also, if you email me, it may take a while before I receive it and answer it. I can pick up email and blog from the Creech house (they are very cool to let me do this), but I don't plan to be stopping in on them every night. That would be just rude. Anyway, as I said, this is just to let everyone know that if you don't hear from me for a while, I haven't dropped off the face of the earth. posted by #Debi at 3:46 PM | permalink |
0 comments | Tuesday, October 08, 2002 Once again with the quiz addiction......
That deal with the skull is kinda freaky, but I liked the outcome of the quiz, so I decided to post it anyway. posted by #Debi at 5:52 PM | permalink |
0 comments | I awoke this morning out of a strange, vivid, and intriguing dream. I wanted to make sure I wrote it down before it goes away. I dreamed I was like St. Brigid, dressed in medieval robes, accompanied by other monks, both male and female, and we were in a boat pulling up to shore. When we got to shore, we went briefly exploring until we found a lovely spot on the rise of a hill, in a field of grasses and flowers--kind of a clearing, or maybe closer to the shore. It's already hard to remember. I do remember that when we found the spot, I said, "This is the spot where we will build our monastery." And then it was like a movie when they cut to a new scene, because in the next moment the buildings were up, and it was a bustling place, full of men and women doing various tasks around the compound. And I remember being in awe that the whole thing had come together so quickly. With dreams like these, you can see why it's so difficult for me to get up some mornings! I just want to stay and watch the rest of the "movie". I also believe that God didn't stop with Peter and John at giving prophetic dreams, so I will meditate on this to see if there could be any deeper meaning that I am to glean from this. posted by #Debi at 7:27 AM | permalink |
0 comments | Saturday, October 05, 2002 Some random thoughts....... I was catching up on my round of blog reading, and I got to Jason Evans' site and reread his September 30th entry re: "gangster driven church". In the comments, Jason talked about how the churches are violent entities a lot of times, per his definition of violence as "any tool for power and motivation". It reminded me of how people in the institutional church I previously attended often quoted Matthew 11:12, the part where it says "the kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent take it by force." They always seemed to use that verse in the sense of, "Bless God, I have rights as a child of God, and I'm gonna take back what the Devil has stolen, etc.", all those things the Faith Movement has listed on their refrigerators as motivational tools. The NKJV Spirit Filled Life Study Bible notes that "the violent...who take it by force are people of keen enthusiasm and commitment who are willing to respond to and propagate with radical abandonment the message and dynamic of God's reign." But when I looked up that verse today, I used my New Living Translation, the Bible that is generally at hand by my computer. Its translation of this verse is, "the Kingdom of Heaven is forcefully advancing, and violent people attack it." This seems to be more of a commentary on persecution and doesn't at all fit the "motivational speech" usage of the KJV and NKJV translations. A quick look at the context of the verse doesn't to me seem to support one translation over another. Any insights, anybody? Tim Frederick and I had our "gig" this morning at the Foddershock Festival at Hutchison UMC in Bourbon County. It was a very brisk morning and I was glad I had worn pants or I'm not sure I'd have been able to sing around the chattering of my teeth. All went very well, and we had a lot of fun. We didn't get to record like we wanted to, but Tim wants to use his equipment and record a "personal use only" disc of the songs we did. We'll see..... I look forward to more collaborations with Tim; I so enjoy being around him and Tina and especially their 15(?) year-old son, Chris. He's just about my favorite teen, maybe because he relates to me as a peer instead of as some lame adult person. I checked out a copy of "Anam Cara", by John O'Donahue, from the public library. I mentioned this book in the comments section of my September 29th entry in The Vine. I'm beginning to understand some why the lecturer was a little reluctant to recommend the book. It tends a little to the New Age end of the Celtic Christianity spectrum, and I'm not sure everyone who reads it takes the time to, as they say, "eat the hay and spit out the chaff." I'm only about halfway through the first chapter, and there are things the author says which are profound to contemplate, such as, "Light is incredibly generous, but also gentle. When you attend to the way the dawn comes, you learn how light can coax the dark. The first fingers of light appear on the horizon, and ever so deftly and gradually, they pull the mantle of darkness away from the world." This statement has great implications for me in light of the "ordinary attempts" style of evangelsim we've been learning about lately. But then later in the same chapter he says, "We need a light that has retained its kinship with the darkness. For we are sons and daughters of the darkness and of the light." Now, maybe he's trying to say that we need to be always conscious of whence we came, but it comes across more as a "compromising" of our faith or an embracing of things I'm not sure we ought to be embracing. I plan to finish the book, so I'll pass on other tidbits as they surface. We are having a "guys night in/ladies night out" tonight, and it's almost time to get over to the Creeches', so I'd better sign off for now. Liz and I and some other ladies are going to see "Ya-Ya Sisterhood"--serious chick-flick night. I have no idea what the guys have up their sleeve, other than keeping the "Creechers" in line. God, I love those kids! posted by #Debi at 4:51 PM | permalink |
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