Peacedove's Blog
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7/6/07 2 CommentsFrustrated....
Ahhh.... can't get in the chat room and desperately worried that Criss is there and I'm missing it!!! ahhhhh....stupid computer!
A later edit: OK, I;m in, hoping Criss will join us soon!! :)
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6/27/07 2 CommentsFound this....
The other day, on recommendation from someone in the chat room (thanks michael) I went to an amazing magic shop in Baltimore that I NEVER would have found on my own. It was really fun and I spent an hour or so talking with the owner who is on a first name basis with all the magicians I've ever heard of (not that there are that many). It was a great experience looking around the shop and at the titles of all of these magic books bound with plastic so no one can steal the secrets I suppose. I bought flash paper for use in a children's sermon and was shown and bought a book about using it "for inspiration." I will definitely go back there- it was too fun. In the front of one of the only books that wasn't wrapped in plastic was this quote from Albert Einstein. It rang so true for me both in light of magic and the spiritual, I wanted to share it.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
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5/20/07 1 Commentargh....
hello all...
it has been ages, it feels like forever since I have written a blog (I do recognize that it's a weird world where forever is equal to about a month but still).
After Easter here things went a little nuts- tons of people in my congregation in the hospital and having surgury. Then the woman who has really been the heartbeat of my congregation- 100 years old and a member since she was baptized at my church as a child- died. Planning her funeral, preaching at her funeral was a blessed and heart wrenching and pressure filled thing for me that I am still responding to. Blessed because of the gift of her 100 years of faithful living and loving, heart wrenching because I can see her daughter's grief and feel the grief of my congregation and this community almost as something palpable, and pressure filled partly because of the heartfelt advice from a concerned colleague regarding the funeral: "This is one of those defning moments in ministry- a make it or break it moment for you and this congregation Kristi- make sure you don't screw it up." Thanks a lot.
Despite all that, I think it really was a funeral service that celebrated her life as well as gave room for us to grieve.
Not surprising though, the funeral was on a Sat, I got through Sun morning, fell asleep after church and woke up Monday incredibly sick- anyone believe in the idea that absorbing the grief and stress of those days LITERALLY made my body sick?
Well regardless of why, I have been very sick for about a week and will be calling my doctor tomorrow after coughing and sniffling my way through church this morning.
This is a pretty down blog which is funny since besides being sick-I don't feel down- just tired. In fact, maybe I will just go to bed now.
Hoping to blog more in future!! :) And hopefully with happier news!
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4/25/07 2 CommentsCars
I am looking to buy a car...what a nightmare! Or should I lease? New or used? What kind? How do I keep from getting scammed?
Wish I had some special skills-some hellstromism or mind reading. Wish I could just make a car appear like Criss does! :)
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4/17/07 2 CommentsWhat the....
I am proud to report that I started again making some real progress on the infuriating Criss Angel Riddle!!
I am sorry to tell you though that I stopped paying attention to the time and, it GULP, I can't believe this, it's almost 4am!
WHAT THE.......?????
To the lowest hell with you Criss Angel Riddle!!! I love/hate you! LOL!
