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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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Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Less personal than Diabadass, more detailed than a grocery list,

I was a bit upset earlier today. I take the time to write you all a beautiful post on reading Richard Foster and all anyone seems to want to talk about was the suprise ending. Thoroughly disappointing, I promise you... I was hoping for some feedback. Interaction. Damnit, maybe even a little bloodshed! Well, since everyone didn't feel like cooperating and playing by the rules I am going to leave you a post on that particular subject. A certain Ms. Lynlea Jayo has already done so (with a terribley clever post title, I must say)

Yes, I am engaged. For some of you that is a horribley depressing thought, "Why would someone want to marry him, he's a HERETIC!" although I'm hoping we can set aside certian nit-picky theological and social differences to celebrate this (and you're still wrong, btw)

:P

Right now it's all a bit surreal. I'm not exactly sure what to think. I'm excited. Apprehensive. Happy. Nervous. But most of all I think I am Content. I think that's what really matters, in the end.

I would fill you in on the details but my lovely fiancee has already done so, quite well I might add. Basically, we're getting married in 8 months and then moving to Kentucky. We'll live in Lexington and both of us work. One year off to establish residency then we'll see from there where that goes.

I'm escaping Idaho. And I don't have to go alone.

I'm very happy about it all :) The wedding is going to be small and sweet (if you really feel like flying out to see us, then you're invited by default) and the reception will be pretty much the most gigantic thing to have happened in the history of humans living in North America. Pretty much.

Well, that's all the update you get. I am tired and Lynlea has already said much of what I would cover. Yep.

Night, kids.

posted by -mike- at 12:40 AM

 

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