My Own 2 Feet

A thoughtful poem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmVnrn2bZvw

A witness

I know a Roman Catholic nun here in Lexington who is currently traveling in Columbia with a group called Witness for Peace.

This is an amazing lady. At over 70 years old she is traveling in a foreign country with a group that stands up to and challenges the people (the military and government) who not only sanction but see to it that thousands of innocent people, the vast majority of them poor farmers, are slaughtered every year.

How she does it I don't know. I just pray for her safety.

http://witnessforpeace.org/

Sometimes I just love Sundays

A weird and wonderful Sunday. I found out my father had sold the old scooter (which he had bought for us when we went camping - way back when I was in high school) and I skipped church but yet had a church related get together tonight.

Right now I'm feeling a certain sense of contentment, I'm sure as I awake in the morning and realize it's Monday again, that feeling will certainly decrease, but hopefully only so much.

Right now everyone is asleep, Tom, the dogs. As they should be, it's almost midnite. I should be asleep long ago. But I'm not.

I'm here thinking about the beauty and tragedy of life. Someone who is close to a dear friend of mine, died of a heart attack yesterday.

Life can be so brutal, so short.

But yet, it can be so wonderful, beautiful.

And it's all we have right now. What happens next is such a mystery but I trust it's way better than anything that happens here.

Female bishops in the Church of England

The Church of England has approved women as bishops:

http://anglicanfuture.blogspot.com/2008/07/cofe-synod-passed-motion-on-women-in.html

and

http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/

I almost made a reference that the 'mother church' had decided to follow the path of it's 'child' (The Episcopal Church) in deciding it was after all, ok to consecrate females as bishops. Then I remembered the first bishop in TEC was actually consecrated by the Scottish Episcopal Church.

Nevertheless it is a striking development, there are quite a few evangelical clergy in the Church of England who are quite opposed to such a move. Since this vote just came through today it remains to be seen what exactly they will do.

This definitely puts another spin on the entire Anglican Communion, what with most of the provinces that hate TEC so much also being strongly opposed to female priests, much less female bishops. The horrors! They'd hate to have to actually listen to a woman or a gay man and treat them as an equal.

My niece

So today I went to my parents, to visit for Father's Day and also to see my sister and her daughter who just recently moved back to Kentucky from Florida.
Besides it being kind of hot, and me (and everyone else it seems) being tired, it was fun. My niece probably interacted with me more than ever (she's just two years old).
She has so much character now and didn't take long to warm up to me. That is a big deal considering we have hardly ever seen each other. Just a few times and not for very long each time.

Obama?

What is it about Obama that scares some people?

Is it race? His name? Assuming he's muslim (which is completely false)?

Obama is a fervent supporter of the needy and impoverished, an advocate for the poor, a devout Christian and servant of the people.

Search the facts people.

Kaiser

Kaiser looking out.