What a relief, and a rare thing, to have my sermon “done” on Friday night.
From a series we’re doing at Suburban Pres. entitled “The Once and Future Church,” inspired by the Loren Mead book of the same name. (Many thanks to this article for providing the structure for the sermon.)
1 Corinthians 12:12-31a
For just as the […]

The questions are simple, the answers unlimited. Go!
Who are you, who who…
What is love? baby don’t hurt me…
When will our eyes meet? When will I touch you?
Where did our love go?
Why… [hmm, can’t think of one for why, other than the Annie Lennox song of the same name. Leave your suggestion in the comments]
Tunefully yours,
RM

I don’t normally post entire articles outright, but this was a good one from Anna Quindlen in Newsweek.
Write for Your Life
Wouldn’t all of us love to have a journal, a memoir, a letter, from those we have loved and lost? Shouldn’t all of us leave a bit of that behind?
Jan. 22, 2007 issue […]

So yesterday’s internet fast was quite refreshing. Since it was a holiday, I wasn’t met with a crazy-huge backlog last night. I’ll do it again next week for sure.
We had a pretty fun day with the girls. Ran an errand or two, baked cookies and played together. We played outside quite a bit; R put […]

First, R got “asides” working. This is a place for quick, pithy comments that aren’t worth a whole post. They’re currently visible on the sidebar, though that won’t be their final location—not sure yet. (And in rss readers they just look like any other post.) Subscribers won’t be notified by e-mail when I post an […]

I created a blogroll yesterday; it’s already incomplete and out of date. This is why I don’t like blogrolls. My reading habits change too fast. If you’re not there, it doesn’t mean I’m not reading you.
The divine miss m is 31 inches tall and weighs almost 24 pounds. That puts her at 100%ile and 75%ile, […]

Friday Five Countdown Edition.
Please count down five living people you admire and tell us a little something about why they make your list. These could be famous people or people you know personally.
5…4…3…2…1
[Can I do this in the next 15 minutes, before M’s ped appointment?]
Off the top of my head, and with no sense of […]

I’m told that posts are not getting picked up by the aggregators such as bloglines. This is peculiar since I saw yesterday’s post via bloglines, and I can see from Google analytics that others are clicking through from bloglines.
However, I did some categorization of previous posts yesterday, and while the first batch of those came […]

…I feel pressure to have something worthwhile to say!
Perhaps some dots.

The divine miss m continues to be fever-free. That 103 thing was just a blip, I guess? She is really working on molars 3 and 4 though. Woke up at 1 a.m. (six hours after Motrin) with the intermittent, self-pitying pain cry. “I’m doing my […]

There are boxes everywhere, pictures still need to go on the walls, but we’re all moved in and the lights are on, which means, PARTY!
Please, no gifts. Especially not plants. R & I are awful with plants. It’s all we can do to keep two girls and two cats alive and healthy. Well wishes are […]

As you know, I had a birthday this week, and while we’ve done the birthday thing before, I’m going to do my best to come up with new questions…
1. “It’s my party and I’ll [blank] if I want to…”
Favorite way to celebrate your birthday (dinner with family? party with friends? a day in solitude?)
I did […]

So, I now have an expired driver’s license–by 2 days. Yeah. Because Christmastime is such a splendid time for me to have to worry with such a mundane detail.
Here in Uptight Commonwealth I have to provide evidence of “legal presence” since I let it expire. This is a new law, presumably a response to terrorism […]