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"Before the beautiful-no, not really before but within the beautiful-the whole person quivers. He not only 'finds' the beautiful moving; rather, he experiences himself as being moved and possessed by it."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar

"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
- Flannery o'Connor

"Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world. It is time, in the power of the Spirit, to take up our proper role, our fully human role, as agents, heralds, stewards of the new day that is dawning."
- NT Wright

"When we think our brother or sister has sinned against us, such an affront is not just against us but against the whole community. A community established as peaceful cannot afford to let us relish our sense of being wronged without exposing that wrong in the hopes of reconciliation."
- Stan Hauerwas

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
- Thomas Merton

"All the believers were of one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possesions was their own, but they shared everything that they had."
- Acts of the Apostles

"For evil men account those things alone evil which do not make men evil; neither do they blush to praise good things, and yet to remain evil among the good things they praise. It grieves them more to own a bad house than a bad life, as if it were man's greatest good to have everything good but himself."
- St. Augustine

(reading)

The Eucharist of the Early Christians

The Collected Short Stories, Flannery o'Connor

The Kingdom of God is Within You, Tolstoy

(have read)

Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Pope John Paul II

God is Near Us, Pope Benedict XVI

Heretics/Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton

Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barret Browning

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Saturday, May 20, 2006

Trip to Boise

Ryan driving us to Boise with his Crown of Eternal Reign.



Jones asleep in the backseat. Isn't he adorable when he's not awake?



Chad looks a little sleepy or something, doesn't he?



Ryan talking to Jenne on the phone explaining that WE DID do the scavenger hunt and that we are now taking a break at Jack in the Box. She didn't believe us.



Jones eating some kind of fast-food burger that will clog his arteries and plug his veins. Poor guy...



Lynlea at Walgreens developing the film from our scavenger hunt.



Melinda in the backseat drinking her Raspberry-Blueberry smoothie that spilled on the floor-mat of the car.



Jenne sitting in the grass waiting for Chad's table to be set up at Red Lobster. Look, she's smiling!



Me at Red Lobster. It's Lynleas fault.



My revenge for taking a pic of me in a dark place. I think she has a shrimp in her mouth...



Chad the Birthday Princess. Why are his eyes so red?

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