Summer Sabbath is what my church calls That Time In The Summer When Everyone Is Away. It is also my favorite time of the church year because we all cram into the church for one service. Usually we have three services–one contemporary, one traditional, and one for the college students–and I don’t especially like to [...]
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Summer Sabbath
Posted in Bizarre, Church, Community, Family, Funny, Grace, Houghton, Houghton Wesleyan Church, Sadie, Silly, Surreal, This rural life, Uncategorized on July 19, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Community & Grape Jam
Posted in 7435, Amazing friends, Church, Cleaning, Contentment, God, Grace, homemaking, hope, Houghton, joy, life, NY, This rural life, Uncategorized, Well-being, Why I should be Amish, Wonder, work, tagged Community, Friends, Grape Jam on October 19, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I spent Columbus Day making grape jam with my friend Sunshine. She had picked mountains of Concord grapes at a local vineyard, and since I had already been through the jam-making process once before with Industrious Betsy, I was up for another batch (actually 5 batches…). The kids had the day off of school, and [...]
Back in the Swing…
Posted in Boredom, Church, coffee, Family, movies on January 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Oh, the weekend drearies! Maybe it’s just the weather. But I find myself wandering around the house, wondering what to do with myself. (Wait, I do that every day of the week. Why should I expect the weekends to be any different?) At least I’m happy to be back into some kind of routine again. [...]
Gifts and the Drum Guy
Posted in Calling, Church, God, Grace, Learning, Ponderings, Uncategorized, Who am I?, Wonder on October 25, 2007 | 5 Comments »
There’s this guy at church who plays the drums. He’s from South America, and according to his roommate, he never stops moving. Even when he’s not playing, he’s playing. He is Rhythm. During the songs, I watch him, mesmerized. He’s all there–fully engaged and attached to what he is doing–not even noticing that there are [...]
Class assignment re: the end times
Posted in Church, Essentials Class, God, Learning, Ponderings, Theology on April 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Essentials of Evangelical Theology 04/19/07 Olson 15 Letter Dear Toni and Denise~ I was a little intense in high school, wasn’t I? Do you remember the night I invited you guys over to watch that ‘end times’ movie A Thief in the Night? I want you to know that I only wanted to introduce you [...]
Here is THE PAPER (warning: long)
Posted in Church, Essentials Class, God, Grace, Learning, Ponderings, Theology, Who am I?, Wonder on April 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The Baptism in the Holy Spirit “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful “than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” (Matt. 3:11 NIV) Dotted across the hillside, sitting on blankets, all forty thousand [...]
Undeserving
Posted in Church, Frustration, God, Grace, Wonder on April 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Why is it that fights between people who love each other happen most often right before church? This past most holiest of Sundays, EASTER, Dan and I had this hideous fight in the car minutes before we walk into to church. I was so sure I was right and church or no church, I WAS [...]
Silent Retreat
Posted in Church, God, Grace, Learning, Ponderings, Well-being, Wonder on April 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I went on a silent retreat this past Saturday. I was a little worried about it, though it was only to last three hours. I used to do morning prayers at a yoga studio nearby, and we’d do sun salutations for 20 minutes, then sit on our yoga bricks for 20 in silence. That last [...]
The List
Posted in Church, Essentials Class, God, Grace, Learning, Ponderings, Theology, work on March 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Another thing from my class: Olson 12: Journal Entry When I was in high school, the pinnacle of my high spiritual existence, I had a List. This List, though mental, and buried deep in my subconscious, contained all anyone needed to know about being a Christian. The first part was called “What you must do [...]
Catholic AND Protestant
Posted in Church, Essentials Class, God, Grace, Learning, Ponderings, Theology, Wonder on March 28, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Here is a journal entry I wrote for my class after I read about the Reformation. Knoll 9, 10 Journal Entry When I was in third grade at St. Leo’s Catholic Church, I remember thinking that if I stepped one toe into a Protestant church I would have to go to confession right away—as if [...]
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