I want to enjoy Drake, but I can't. He uses the N Word too much. Just because he's Black doesn't make it okay, and I find it repugnant. Trying to listen to his music is like drinking Kool-aid mixed with salt rather than sugar. I actually find it offensive.
Friday, January 31, 2020
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Feet of Clay
So, I decided not to allow my phobia of public speaking hold me back. I decided to grow myself, push myself outside my comfort zone, really challenge myself. I have dashed in where angels fear to tread. So far, in almost 3 months, it hasn't really gotten any easier. I feel like I am failing. I should not have maybe leapt before I looked. I certainly am challenging myself, but for how long?
Wow
I was talking with a friend on social media tonight, which is where the last post came from, and I said that my outlook on life is Ecclesiastes 12 and Psalm 90. It seems a little dark maybe, but it's not the way I intend it. Then, during Evening Prayer, the appointed psalms for tonight are 144 & 146. And, I think, wow.
Me
My Constitutional Framework:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+22%3A36-40&version=NIV
Everything I believe must fit with this.
How I view others:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+14&version=GNT
How I view Bible Rules:
How I view other Christians:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+12%3A12-31&version=GNT
How I view other Christian Churches:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+4%3A5&version=GNT
How I view the Church:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+69:9&version=GNT
How I view life:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalms+90%3A10&version=GNT
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+12&version=GNT
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+22%3A36-40&version=NIV
Everything I believe must fit with this.
How I view others:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+14&version=GNT
How I view Bible Rules:
How I view other Christians:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+12%3A12-31&version=GNT
How I view other Christian Churches:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+4%3A5&version=GNT
How I view the Church:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+69:9&version=GNT
How I view life:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalms+90%3A10&version=GNT
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+12&version=GNT
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Vanilla
Last my dreams were rather vanilla, as the kids say. I didn't write them down though, and have forgotten them. Two nights ago, however, I had another post apocalyptic world dream. I remember growing vegetables, not simply as a backyard hobby anymore, but to survive, depending on them. The worry and stress of this garden. I remember scavenging for 2L bottles of Coke (couldn't drink the water?). No zombies this time, nobody to shoot, I don't remember a while lot of resistance from people, just the world. There were no marauders this time. It was all about finding food and how hard it was. Meaning?
Sunday, January 19, 2020
John 2:17 GNT from Bible Gateway
John 2:17 GNT
His disciples remembered that the scripture says, "My devotion to your house, O God, burns in me like a fire."
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The Church is the People
Yes, but why must everybody these days be so anti-bullying? Some of us love the temples. We keep being told how unnecessary they are. Maybe to you. Are you REALLY looking at all the options? Really? Or, have you already decided and you're just coasting to the end now?
Psalms 69:9
Two of the Dumbest Things I Heard in 2019
1. Lesbians are transphobic because they won't date women with a penis.
2. Global Warming is misogynistic because it does not treat women equitable and treats them the same as men.
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Not a Dodge, But a Journey
A recent reading, Galatians 5, reminded me a lot of Romans 14. It was of the same flavour, I thought, regarding the law and whether or not we are bound by it or freed from it by Jesus. Romans had a LOT to do with my view changing on gay marriage. It was a big part of my journey and a great comfort.
A Lion Named REM
I just woke up from an afternoon nap. I actually entered REM sleep. I drempt that I had, among other things, a lion living in my underground parking garage. I had to get into my car quick when the lion was at a distance from the car. Then, I had to make sure that he didn't follow me out of the parking garage under the gate when I left. Meaning?
❤
Sometimes when somebody is in pain, they can lash out. They can hurt those around them. It's hard to understand that sometimes.
Friday, January 17, 2020
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Reflection
As I sat in the chancel in the dark Tuesday night meditating, I was saddened by many things. The distance I felt emotionally from my parish was at odds with how at home I felt in the moment. I was aware of the Thin Space that I was in. How many almost countless souls had worshiped in this holy space before me. I thought about the looming demise on the horizon for this temple, and it filled me with sadness. How I loved the Maundy Thursday services, the reverence, their somber nature, it will be a great loss. The parish leadership are defeated, consigned to selling the building, believing that failure in imminent, not trusting. As my mind wondered and I lifted my head, I looked at the post on the end of the hymn rack in front of me, shaped by a carpenter, worn smooth edges by the passage of time. How many choir members had passed by, touching it, choir gowns brushing against it? How special was this holy place to how many people...is? It will be lost to me, and I want to cherish it's dying days, this temple.
Psalms 69:9
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Subject: Strange Strange Dream
Last night, I had a series of nightmares where I was dreaming that I was laying in bed trying to scream but couldn't. I would wake up repeatedly (in the dream) in bed and try to scream and couldn't. I also dreamt that there was a shadowy figure in the corner of the living room downstairs. Then, if real life, our bedroom lamp started to turn on and off (not a touchtone lamp). I didn't get a lot of sleep.
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Strange Strange Dream
Last night, I had a series of nightmares where I was dreaming that I was laying in bed trying to scream but couldn’t. I would wake up repeatedly (in the dream) in bed and try to scream and couldn’t. I also dreamt that there was a shadowy figure in the corner of the living room downstairs. Then, if real life, our bedroom lamp started to turn on and off (not a touchtone lamp). I didn’t get a lot of sleep.
Thursday, January 2, 2020
On Socialism
When are people going to wake up and realise that the horse always goes to the glue factory, always.
Socialism is always about power, two kinds of power:
●Promised power, to the proletariat or poor
●Actual power, is consolidated in the hands of the few and people with less and less money become more and more dependent on the powerful few.
Socialism is always about power, two kinds of power:
●Promised power, to the proletariat or poor
●Actual power, is consolidated in the hands of the few and people with less and less money become more and more dependent on the powerful few.
Deep
The readings of the past few days were impactful for me, as you probably noticed by my last few posts, deep.
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Romans 2:17-29 NIV - The Jews and the Law - Now you, if you - Bible Gateway
Today's reading was humbling. I like to think that I have something to offer to others, something to "teach" to others, to improve them. There is a certain amount of pride maybe, on reflection. The writer of Romans reminds me that I am not so smart as I think I am. I have many of my own faults.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+2%3A17-29&version=NIV
When you live in a country where those in power have the ability to use institutions to reward (deferred prosicution agrerments (SNC Lavalin)) political allies and to punish political oponents (Admiral Norman, Jody Wilson-Raybould), you have--as a nation--began to slip into totalitarianism.
Socialism
"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain." ― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
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“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.” John Stuart Mill
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