thanks to "Mr. God"

it was a good read and discussion tonight in our book reading group. we are reading "Mr. God This Is Anna". i love this book. it reminds me of the wonder and mysteries of God and the freshness of looking at him through the eyes of a child. it is one of those books that is easy and yet complicated at the same time. it is a book that makes you pause and think. i want to go explore the vastness of the world around me or sit and watch an ant for hours when i read it. it inspires me to be still and know...and run and holler at the same time.

life is good.

n

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Today I received a mainstream Christian catalogue and felt terribly removed. Few of these things can catch or hold my attention these days. I searched my thoughts and a feeling...was I feeling arrogant? Smug? No, just removed...and not in an isolating kind of fashion...just different. What we in America call the "traditional church" (and mind you...I am not knocking the church...especially our history and heritage) seems so distant to me. When we started ministry in the real world...not a sanitized version of it...things got real. Christ's call to live as He lived got real. Who needs a doctor? Who needs a place? Who needs food? Who needs grace and understanding? Who needs love?


How can we turn this ship around?

a yard with a view

this has no spiritual significance whatsoever....but my dog ate the fence. it seems to me a strange habit...fence eating....but he does it quite often. we replace the boards, he finds another loose one. the neighbors' dogs just have to wimper and there he goes...displaying his manhood...or malehood, i suppose, by eating boards and eventually pulling them off. i need the dog whisperer. i need to get into his psychy. i need some tobasco.

perhaps he is just looking for a toothpick to clean his very large canines. i really don't know. i think i will sit down with him and discuss it...woman to dog. i wonder if he likes hot tea with a little lemon or honey.
time to make the neighbors brownies again. by this time next year i think i will have replaced all the boards...maybe that is what he is after...doesn't like weathered boards....or maybe he is just looking for a yard with a view.
n

fruitbasket turnover

howdy from texas.

my friend jenna took this photo. i'm not certain why this one hit me the way it did...it really made me think about life...about comparing apples to oranges. i grew up in the church...southern baptist, to be specific. lately i have been doing a great deal of thinking of what it means to be a part of the body of Christ and how we should love and serve one another. it made me ask where our focus is and how and why we are always comparing one person to another...just like comparing apples and oranges. we like carbon copy people...and i for one have never seemed to fit the mold. and i wonder...i wonder what God thinks of it all. i wonder how many times i have thrown out a bad apple that wasn't an apple at all...just another person who was desparately searching for God...like the photo, an orange trying to fit into the apple world. okay...maybe that is a stretch...
so this blog is about learning to be more like Christ...a conversation about how things should be and how we can love and give the grace of God to others...like you and me. you are invited to comment.

and so laugh with me...even about stupid fruit analogies. and help me play a little fruitbasket turnover in my own life.

thanks for the pic, jen.
n