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I am Mike Noakes.
That is was my pipe.
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(thoughts)

"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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(spirituality)

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(good books)

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Guest Blogger - Lynlea Jayo!!

The Advantages of Dating a Blogger

1. Free Books. When he receives two copies of a book, one is given to you. You are also able to borrow any of the free books that he has obtained.

2. Your Name is a Link to Your Myspace Page. Many people read your name and know who you are even though you've never spoken with them or even done anything worth mentioning.

3. Hear About Interesting People. You get to learn about all of his blogger friends and hear amusing stories about many of them.

4. You Realize Just How Humble Your Blogger Actually Is. And yes... he is very humble indeed. :)

5. There's Always Something Interesting to Read. No matter how bored you get, it's very easy to find something to read. It could be written by your blogger, or by someone he has linked.

Reasons Why I Will Never Blog

1. Lack of an Interesting Topic. Unfortunately, my life is very monotonous. No one would want to read about anything that happened in it. My thoughts and opinions are probably just as dull.

2. Fear of Looking Stupid on the Internet. Too many people would see it. I know I would have some sort of grammatical or spelling error that would haunt me for the rest of my days. I couldn't live with that kind of humiliation. :)

3. Compassion for my Blogger. He has been doing the whole blogging thing for so long. I would hate to show up on the scene and outdo him. I just don't know if he could handle the fact that I had more readers than he did. :) haha

Go leave her some comment love at her myspace.

posted by -mike- at 7:55 PM

 

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