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In 1883, all foreign missionaries were expelled from the country so Bro. Raphael, as a native, was named the president of the Catholic Union for All Madagascar, making him responsible for much of the Catholic spiritual life and Catholic schools on the island. He had this role thrust upon him again in 1894 when a similar situation occurred and he once again thrived in his work of teaching and maintaining the Catholic faith and spiritual lives of the Catholics in Madagascar. For his efforts in teaching and maintaining relations, he was named a member of the Academy of Madagascar in 1902 and was awarded the Medal of Civil Merit in 1903.
Brother Raphael was arrested on Christmas Eve, 1915, under suspicion of being a member of a "secret society" that was aiming to overthrow the monarchy during World War I. When faced with the charges he said, "...I have nothing against the government, nothing against the state or against any person. My only preoccupation is to do good among the young Malagache by spreading the message of the Gospel. There is surely some error."
He was released from prison on February 18, 1916 but he would die 3 years later in the city of Fianarantsoa from the effects of living in an unhygienic and filthy prison cell. His body was found to be incorrupt when it was moved to to the capital in 1933 and his cause for sainthood began. A former student of Bro. Raphael's, Pierre Rafaralahy, suffered from paralysis and visited Bro. Raphael's coffin as it was being transferred. He placed his hand on the coffin and "felt a tremor" in his body and was cured of his paralysis. This was the miracle that led to Bro. Raphael's beatification by Pope Benedict XVI on June 7, 2009, Trinity Sunday. This past March, a monument was raised in honor of Blessed Raphael in Madagascar.
We pray:
Blessed Brother Raphael-Louis, help us to be faithful to the Gospel and lead lives of service for others.
Saint John Baptist de La Salle and all you holy Brothers who have gone before us,
inspire vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
Blessed Raphael-Louis Rafiringa...pray for us.
Saint John Baptist de la Salle...pray for us.
Live Jesus in our hearts...Forever!


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Following on from the announcement of several new rides and attractions coming to various Cedar Fair parks in 2017, it has now been revealed that a new flat ride is to join the line-up of attractions at Knott's Berry Farm.
Sol Spin is slated to open in spring 2017 and will be a Mondial Top Scan, making it the second new Top Scan to open at a Cedar Fair park in 2017 after Electro-Spin was announced for Carowinds earlier this year. Sol Spin will be located in the Fiesta Village area of the park, which carries a Mexican and Aztec theme and contains both thrilling and more family-friendly attractions. The new ride will definitely be sited more towards the thrill rides end of the spectrum, and will join fellow Fiesta Village attractions La Revolución, an Afterburner attraction, and launched coaster Montezooma's Revenge in this respect. The area also contains a second roller coaster in Jaguar!, which interacts with Montezooma's Revenge while being more geared towards a family audience.
This is just one addition to the many new changes already announced for Knott's Berry Farm next year. Knott's Soak City waterpark will receive a major expansion with two new slide towers, while the popular Ghost Town Alive experience will return to the park, turning the Ghost Town themed area into a kind of living museum populated with characters representing this classic era of America. With expansions to Seasons of Fun, Knott's Boysenberry Festival and a new Boardwalk Barbeque restaurant all set to debut as well, 2017 looks set to be an exciting year for Knott's and Cedar Fair as a whole.
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iPhone PriceMay 22, 2007
What's with all the whining about the price of Apple's upcoming iPhone? Sure, $499 and $599 is a lot of money. But when I go to my current wireless provider, Verizon, and see what they want to charge me to upgrade to another brand of smartphone, I see prices ranging from $420 to $620. And none of them are as appealing as the iPhone.
So what's the big deal? Was someone expecting to get them for $50 with a two year contract or something?


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Our biggest accomplishment is we bought a house in SF. Survived that with luck and a good agent! Aila started pre-school and loves it. Tesla is getting really creative and good at Minecraft : ) And Dav has enjoyed his work at Live Nation (albeit with a few surprises mixed in). Cheers to a new year!
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In January 2013, Brisbane Airport held the dubious honour of being the worst metropolitan hub for on-time arrivals in the country.
A total 26,992 flights delayed in 2012 affected more than 2.5 million passengers.
The growing tide of frustration saw The Courier-Mail launch a campaign for a new runway and asked its readers to join the conversation by telling Brisbane Airport what they thought using the Twitter hashtag #bnelateagain.
Frustrated travellers, sick of flight delays and congestion, took to social media to vent their anger. Messages ranging from disappointment to outright fury littered Twitter and Facebook.
The Courier-Mail reported that the worst delays on record at Brisbane Airport were in February and, while fewer flights landed that month, more arrived late resulting in an on-time performance of just 61.5 per cent, the worst of any major airport.
Figures released by the Federal Government showed that almost 2,000 of the 5,043 flights to Brisbane arrived at least 15 minutes late and 1,399 of the 5,349 flights departed late.
This new low was achieved despite Airservices Australia saying that the situation had improved.
A day after the newspaper launched the #bnelateagain campaign, Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney ordered a review of future airport capacity across Queensland. Federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese said he would monitor this.
The Courier-Mail's campaign was supported by front page stories with headlines such as "Plane Crazy – 26,992 flights delayed last year", "Build it or Lose it" and "Flight tax". Provocative cartoons and even an outdoor advertising campaign featuring the #bnelateagain hashtag were all part of the mix.
The paper also ran an interview with BAC Chairman Bill Grant who said he would take a dispute over the funding of a new runway to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) if agreement was not reached within weeks.
He also told newspaper readers that the airlines had rejected a $2.50 runway construction passenger levy.
A month after The Courier-Mail began its campaign, fresh data showed aircraft had spent 20.6 hours a day circling Brisbane in holding patterns in 2012, costing airlines at least $75 million in extra fuel.
The first success attributed to the #bnelateagain campaign came in May 2013 when the proportion of aircraft landing on time at Brisbane Airport at night had doubled.
Final victory for readers arrived in October, seven months after the launch of #bnelateagain with the announcement that a new parallel runway would be built to address the chronic flight congestion.
Work has started and is due to finish in less than five years.
In an earlier posted article, we incorrectly stated the Deputy Premier, Jeff Seeney, ordered a review of Brisbane Airport. He ordered a review of future airport capacity across Queensland. The article also indicated the Queensland Government had decision-making rights on a second runway. It does not. We acknowledge that BNE is a privatised airport which operates under a Commonwealth Act of Parliament. We apologise.
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"JONATHON PORRITT, one of Gordon Brown's leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society.
Porritt's call will come at this week's annual conference of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), of which he is patron.
The trust will release research suggesting UK population must be cut to 30m if the country wants to feed itself sustainably.
Porritt said: "Population growth, plus economic growth, is putting the world under terrible pressure.
"Each person in Britain has far more impact on the environment than those in developing countries so cutting our population is one way to reduce that impact."
Population growth is one of the most politically sensitive environmental problems. The issues it raises, including religion, culture and immigration policy, have proved too toxic for most green groups."
How exactly does he plan on reducing the population? The easier way would be to nuke or install the economic plan of collectivization and let them starve. Since he is so into efficiency, is this going to be how he wants to do it.
This is just flat out wrong. It is true that the more people we have the worse the environment is? Some people may think so but what they are not thinking about is how many new minds and new geniuses are being born. These people could very much be the person who invents something that solves this problem. The impact of the marginal person is very small on the environment but big on innovation, which doesn't even include the fact that nobody knows the optimal amount of population. Thomas Malthus believed what this guy believes but we seem to be doing find three hundred years later!


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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Safety from violence is on the minds of many in the wake of the deadly Florida school shooting as threats against several schools in Pennsylvania and New Jersey have led to arrests this week.
West Deptford police arrested a 15-year-old resident Friday who allegedly threatened on social media to "shoot up" West Deptford High School
A 12-year-old was arrested by Vineland police at Rossi Middle School on Wednesday after authorities say the child caused a "false public alarm."
Philadelphia police have tracked down the suspect accused of posting a message threatening Roman Catholic High School.
Deptford High School and Gloucester County Institute of Technology were the targets of an alleged school shooting threat made last week.
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Heart Of Courage
Heart Trilogy (3)
Kat Martin
Bantam Books
Published Jan 2009
407 Pages
Victorian Romance
Under the pert pen name "Lady Smart," opinionated Lindsey Graham crusades for social change among London's elite, writing for the ladies' gazette Heart to Heart. But Lindsey's greatest campaign begins when her brother Rudy, a notorious rake, is accused of murdering a string of prostitutes.
Her confidence in his innocence is bolstered when an anonymous letter arrives naming Viscount Merrick as the killer. Lindsey launches her own investigation into the gentleman's questionable pursuits, a risky venture that earns her an unwelcome bodyguard–Thor Draugr.
At first, Lindsey refuses the protection of her employer's brother-in-law. They are like oil and water, yet she can barely conceal her attraction to the rugged Norseman. But an attempt on her life reveals not only the lengths that someone will go to in order to prevent her interference in the viscount's sordid affairs, but that she can no longer deny that she desires the warrior by her side….
Lindsey Graham, is a very opinionated journalist at Heart To Heart, but then her brother Rudy, gets accused for multiple murders, she knows he isn't capable of. So she goes about and starts asking questions and investigating, and gets in more trouble than she knows what to do with, with her companion as Thor Draugr. Thor is very unwelcome as her bodyguard, but what choice does she have, with someone trying to warn her off from investigating, but Lindsey knows that she must do everything she can to find the one responsible for the murders. Thor is unused to independent women, he is accustomed to women that are passionate but know their place, and Lindsey definitely doesn't know her own boundries, and its up to him to make sure that she doesn't get in too deep without him at her side, only what neither of these strong willed people realized was that there was a unbridled passion about to be shown, and things are about to get even more intense….
The Hero (Thor Draugr)
Thor, grew up on a island, that many don't know the existence of. On this island is still the thriving culture of the Vikings, and Thor decided to leave with his brother and come to England. Thor craves the countryside with peaceful surrounding, which reminds him more of home, than London does. Lindsey frustrated and infuriates him at times, but as he agrees to protect her, he never expected to find his own lifemate…
The Heroine (Lindsey Graham)
Lindsey, loves her job at Heart to Heart, a Ladies Gazette. Lindsey grew up with her parents always traveling, and she and her brother on their own with their aunt. Lindsey is independent, and strong willed, and is determined more than ever to clear her brothers name, no matter how much danger she may be in. Lindsey doesn't like the presence of her bodyguard, who is unlike any man she has ever known, and he stirs up her blood. Even though they are complete opposites, she knows that he is her destiny…
My Thoughts
Heart of Courage is the last in the Heart Trilogy by Kat Martin. I found this to be such a thrilling read, and I found myself at the edge of my seat most of the time. Heart Of Courage is a exciting tale of romance, intrigue, and adventure. I just loved immersing myself into this story, I found it hard to draw myself away from reading it. I think this one is just as good as the other previous books that I have read from this author, and I am looking forward to reading more of her works. Kat Martin definitely delivers in this book and in the series!!! A POIGNANT ROMANCE THAT WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS FOR MORE!!
My Grade On This Book
4 Blossoms
Other Books In The Series
Heart Of Honor
Heart Of Fire


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Intersections, a contemporary art series
Embraces Collection's Legacy as "An Intimate
Museum Combined with an Experiment Station"
1600 21st Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
Dupont Circle Metro (Q Street exit)
Intersections invites artists to respond to artwork and spaces in the museum with projects of their own, revealing relationships between modern and contemporary art. Many Intersections projects riff on the intimate nature of the museum's architecture, engaging spaces not typically considered exhibition areas, such as the museum's stairwell, courtyard, and walkways between buildings, among others. By activating these unconventional spaces, Intersections challenges visitors' expectations of how and where they experience art. These encounters create new relationships, with surprises of their own.
"Intersections invites the living artist to engage creatively with the rich modernist collection at The Phillips Collection. Collaborating with Vesela Sretenovic, our curator of modern and contemporary art, the artists respond to specific works of art as well as the idiosyncratic spaces of our intimate galleries," says Dorothy Kosinski, director of The Phillips Collection. "Duncan Phillips was thrilled by contemporary art, and we are excited to embrace this aspect of the institution's mission and personality."
Museum founder Duncan Phillips, who referred to his museum as an experiment station welcoming new and startling manifestations of art, believed it to be a laboratory. His installations were radical, ignoring the considerations of nationality and chronology that traditionally shaped art museum displays. Intersections builds on this feature of the museum, as well as on Phillips's legacy of active engagement with the artists of his time, reigniting relationships with artists both local and international, emerging and established.
Barbara Liotta—Icarus
Through January 31, 2010
Conceived as a portrait of human energy and inner strength and as a symbol of flight and aspiration, this large-scale sculpture is made of strings and stones and suspended from the ceiling. Icarus is paired with portraits from the museum's permanent collection, including Eugène Delacroix's Paganini, Amedeo Modigliani's Elena Povolozky, and Chaim Soutine's Woman in Profile.
Tayo Heuser—Pulse
Through October 31, 2010
Heuser translates the luminosity of Mark Rothko's paintings in the museum's Rothko Room into three dimensions with a wall-mounted sculpture in the museum's elliptical stairwell. These glowing, colored forms, crafted from handmade paper and drawn in ink, seem to float against the walls.
Linn Meyers—Mandala
February 11-May 2, 2010
Meyers has drawn two geometric shapes on the walls of an arch, inspired by the brushwork and colors of Vincent Van Gogh's Entrance to the Public Garden in Arles and The Road Menders. They intersect, creating visual vibrations of movement and color.
Kate Shepherd
June 10-September 5, 2010
Jae Ko
October 1, 2010-January 2, 2011
Museum Hours
Tuesday-Sunday: 10 am-5 pm
Sunday: 11 am-6 pm
Thursday extended hours: 5-8:30 pm
Mondays: closed
The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
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"I prayed to the Lord, and he answered me.
He freed me from all my fears. Those who look to him for help will be radiant with joy; no shadow of shame will darken their faces. In my desperation I prayed, and the Lord listened."
For today's message, I thought I'd share with all of you this devotion my wife, Rachel, wrote...
When God shows up in the lives of his people, it is always amazing. It is always cause for praise. When he blessed Abraham and Sarah with a child in their old age; when he parted the Red Sea through Moses; when he saved Daniel from the lions; when he chose Mary, a virgin, to give birth to his only Son; when he came to our world in the form of an innocent, helpless baby to save us all...these are all miraculous acts of our awesome God!
God still shows up in our lives in amazing ways. Through our doubts, our fears, and even our pain, God is still present. We don't have to have perfect faith to cry out to the Lord and ask him to answer our prayers. Scripture tells us even faith as small as a mustard seed can move God to act in mighty ways.
My husband, Trey, and I have been married for over 8 years, and have always wanted children. It has been quite a journey for us, full of many years of frustration, tears, doubt, and even resignation. I had given up of ever conceiving a couple of years ago. We began to look at other options as I had decided that it couldn't happen. I had decided, not the Lord.
Why do we place limits on what God can do in our lives? Vulnerability and fear are the answers that come to my mind. The situations of our lives can sometimes can be so raw and emotional that we feel we can't fully trust in the Lord and come boldly before him with our requests and the desires of our hearts. There can be that pesky voice inside our heads that asks, "but what if God doesn't show up?"
Friends, we must silence that voice, because God is so much bigger than our fears. Jesus says, "if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!" (John 15:7) I have clung to this scripture and the promises of God's faithfulness in the past several months. As I did this, my hope in the Lord returned. I began to pray and believe that though I might not be able, HE IS. He is the God of the impossible. All of scripture points to this fact. The God of Abraham, Sarah, Moses, Daniel, and Mary is WITH US. Christmas reminds us of how big God is, and how capable he is of things that may seem impossible.
I found out on November 14, 2017 that I am expecting! I know this is miraculous; I know this is God showing up in my life. Praise be to God, Immanuel! HE IS WITH US!
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As many of you know, I'm headed off to Exeter, England to complete the last year of my undergraduate degree. I'll be studying English Literature, and I couldn't be more excited.
I'm currently sitting in Pearson International Airport, gate 34C. I almost cried when I got to the gate because, as it happens, this is the exact gate I departed from when I went to Tanzania last year. It seemed slightly poignant to me that I was leaving again, almost a year since I returned from Africa.
I've got the travel itch, and I'm so ready to set off on another whirlwind adventure. I said good bye to my wonderful parents and my best friend, I packed up my life into one suitcase, and I just have to wait for my flight.
I'll be travelling a lot around England while I'm there, so I'll do my best to keep this blog updated.
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|Umar emceed Red Carpet Meets Chocolate.
I didn't think much about the name until I saw the setup. It started with belly dancers by Sahara Dances and a fashion show provided by its next door neighbor Guyz 'N' Style and RF Lifestyles Boutique. As the models walked down the red carpet, they showcased some fabulous fashion. Some I've never seen on streets before.
The host is Beauty by Umar, a talented young hair design artist. He moved to this tiny strip mall a year ago with Stan's Hands Massage and Wellness. The celebration was to demonstrate these successful black American business owners to the small business community.
If I had hair, I'd come to get my hair done. Look at the beautiful style from Umar and his team on the website and on Yelp.


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Mesa Verde National Park
President Theodore Roosevelt on June 29, 1906, set aside Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado. This land, inhabited by Ancestral Puebloans for over 700 years, included the most complete and extensive concentration of prehistoric cliff dwellings in the United States. Today, the park protects over 4,000 known archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. In fact, these sites are some of the most notable and best preserved in the United States.
The Native Americans first settled on the Colorado Plateau and farmed the mesas. Life was hard in the arid climate, boasting warm summers, cold winters, and limited rainfall. They lived in various settlements above ground until AD 1100, when they started constructing the massive cliff dwellings.
Many have thought that the Ancestral Puebloans retreated to the cliff dwellings to hide from aggressors, but archeological evidence does not support that theory. In fact, the entire region lived in harmony. The cliff dwellings do offer better protection from the elements than the mesa-top sites, which may be one reason we see so many similar dwellings across the southwest.
Between AD 1200 and 1400, there was a mass exodus from the region. To this date, we still do not know why. Perhaps the climate changed significantly, eliminating the ability to farm on the mesa. What do we know, is that their descendants live on in modern tribes residing in the Rio Grande river valley in New Mexico, the Ute in Colorado, and the Hopi in Arizona.
Each year, new dwellings are continued to be uncovered, allowing researchers to peer deeper and deeper into the past. It is this continued effort that has led to the decade old change in name from Anasazi to Ancestral Puebloan to reflect the people who lived here.
When traveling in the Southwest, there are many must-see National Parks,. This is one of them. The fact that you can still walk the grounds and experience the cliff dwellings from within, make it not only a wondrous educational opportunity, but an experiential one as well. The park is open year-round and worth spending at least three days exploring its history.
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Beautiful picture!
I hope to explore there one day. 🙂


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Peanuts Holiday CollectionEveryones favorite Peanuts Holiday titles all in one set with the All-new Deluxe Editions! All the content including EC and bonus episodes, from the following new Peanuts Deluxe Edition releases: Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving A Charlie Brown Christmas]]> It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Charlie Brown gets rocks in his trick-or-treat bag, Linus awaits a visitation from the Great Pumpkin in his terribly sincere pumpkin patch (while the adoring little Sally sits tight with him), Snoopy falls asleep, Lucy harasses Schroeder, and Pig-Pen kicks up a dust storm even beneath his costume in this classic television broadcast. Funny stuff, but also graced with Charles Schultz's more poignant and gently satiric themes from the 1960s on the influence of faith, failure, and hope in our lives. --Tom Keogh A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving This sweet, heartwarming 1973 offering from the Peanuts gang (and Charles Schulz) once again shows Charlie Brown in a pickle, as his erstwhile friends impose upon the hapless would-be-host to provide a memorable and traditional Thanksgiving feast. And as much as Charlie Brown would rather forget the whole thing, he just can't help but try for fear of being labeled a failure. Ultimately it's up to Snoopy and Woodstock to save Charlie from certain embarrassment, and it falls to Linus to impart to all assembled the true meaning of Thanksgiving. This very special Emmy Award-winning cartoon fea...
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Which street in Lawrence do you think is the most dangerous to drive on?
Asked at Massachusetts Street on March 3, 2005
"Probably Tennessee or Kentucky, because people turn from the far lane and end up running into you."
"Twenty-third Street, no doubt. The amount of traffic and people never obeying the lights make it the most dangerous street."
"I think Sixth Street is the worst, because of people swerving to avoid potholes and running red lights."
"Missouri, because college students race up and down it at terrifying speeds, threatening the lives of dogs, children and old ladies."
Punkin 13 years, 3 months ago
My closest calls have definately come on Tennessee.
It's not intended to be a main thoroughfare; it's a residental street, at the southern end. Yet everyone drives it and most go way too fast.
The cross streets at 22nd, 21st, 19th, are the worst--i see people blow through those stop signs all the time.
I live in the neighborhood, and we have virually no sidewalks. Folks walk along Tennessee. It's risky.
I wish they'd put in some speed bumps and sidewalks on Tennessee, and make people drive through on Mass.
Huckleberry 13 years, 3 months ago
The absolute worst spot is Lawrence Avenue between 9th and Harvard. The street is way too narrow to curve the way it does with cars parked on both sides. Anybody agree?
Jayhawk226 13 years, 3 months ago
A PA system installed in cars would be a great idea...
...I would have a lot of fun with that one for sure!
Au_contraire 13 years, 3 months ago
This whole 'four-way-stop' situation has me puzzled. Perhaps the city should send out instructions on how to use these things.
Au_contraire 13 years, 3 months ago
Whenever I drive through there (usually heading south), I sit up high as I can in the driver's seat, say a little prayer, and hope for the best. It is a challenge, for sure.
Jayhawk226 13 years, 3 months ago
Oh man, for me it's the K-10 extension through the southern part of Lawrence...
...oh wait, forgive me....it's NOT THERE!
madcow 13 years, 3 months ago
right now, it is 23rd street.
there is just too much traffic there. i am stuck driving from pearson all the way over to west lawrence every day. it takes me forever to get to work.
most of the traffic could be relieved with the sw trafficway... but that will never happen.
Kyle Rohde 13 years, 3 months ago
31st Street seems to have become the unofficial SW Trafficway, head over there during rush hour and see how many cars are at the 4 way stop at Louisiana.
happycamper 13 years, 3 months ago
No street is dangerous. The lousy drivers and those people who think they should be able to drive across town in 5 minutes are dangerous. If the drivers would follow the rules of the road, there would be few problems or accidents. Lawrence is not a small rural town. 23rd, Iowa, and 6th streets are nothing compared to what you have to deal with in Kansas City, or worse New York or LA.
Jayhawk226 13 years, 3 months ago
The only way I can refute your argument is that in the larger metropolitan areas like NYC, LA, Chicago etc. have people that actually DO KNOW how to drive (when traffic is actually moving), in all forms of weather elements--though overly-aggressive and/or overly-defensive.
Lawrence is a small, rural town compared to those larger metropolitan areas...and my blood pressure rises more trying to get through Lawrence in a 4 x 4 mile proximity than it does travelling 45 miles one-way in Chicago.
Lawrence is a road-rager's nightmare waiting to happen. And throw the mix of drinking college residents into this mix...oh god, no wonder my insurance rates went down when I moved to Johnson County.
italianprincess 13 years, 3 months ago
Lawrence is a big as the city I came from in Cali.
I have to agree with happycamper on this one here.
People need to slow down a bit and watch what they are doing. I see to many people chatting on the phone and not watching the road which is an accident waiting to happen. I won't even go into the ones who let their dogs sit on the laps as they try to drive.
I want a PA system in my car so I can tell the crazy non-paying any attention to the road drivers off. Maybe that would wake them up some.
Linda Aikins 13 years, 3 months ago
Your rates lowered in Johnson County? I live in Lawrence and work in Kansas City. I would love it if the JoCo and Missouri drivers were one-tenth as polite as the Lawrence drivers. Did you know that if your vehicle costs more than $20,000, you actually DO own the road? That means no turn signals are required, and you can cut off anyone you want with no notice because they are lesser people and don't deserve politeness.
My drive is lengthened almost every day both ways because of accidents on 435 and K-10. I have to listen to the comedy channel to keep from exploding.
Don't be a bumper bully!!!!
Jayhawk226 13 years, 3 months ago
Posted by Gootsie on March 3 at 3:19 p.m.
Your rates lowered in Johnson County? I live in Lawrence and work in Kansas City. I would love it if the JoCo and Missouri drivers were one-tenth as polite as the Lawrence drivers.
And with all-due respect...JoCo and Missouri drivers are wimps compared to what I'm used to. But, that's also not a bad thing. My quality-of-life seems to have improved so much since moving here from Chicago and my commute time is down to a 1/4 of what it used to be.
P.S. Great Kansas day...from 66 degrees to stormy 40s! Ah, spring in Kansas! ; )
Richard Heckler 13 years, 3 months ago
23rd and 31st relief:
As you are returning from the KC/JOCO area watch for the 1057 interchange(1900rd/1057). Go south to 458(1000rd). Turn right/west to 59 Hwy. Turn right on 59Hwy/Iowa to the bridge to nowhere(10-12 minutes) to 31st and Iowa(12-15 minutes) at 55 mph. Far more relaxing and scenic. 1057 interchange is also bridge number 1057.
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�Christian espied two men come tumbling over the wall, on the left hand of the narrow way; and they made up space to him. The name of the one was Formalist, and the name of the other Hypocrisy. So, as I said, they drew up unto him, who thus entered with them into discourse:- � CHR. Gentlemen, whence came you and whither do you go? �FORM. and HYP. We were born in the land of Vainglory, and are going for praise to Mount Sion. � CHR. Why came you not in at the gate which standeth at the beginning of the way? Know you not that it is written, that he that cometh not in by the door, �but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber�? (John 10:1.) �They said that, to go to the gate for entrance was, by all their countrymen, counted too far about; and that, therefore, their usual way was to make a short cut of it, and to climb over the wall, as they had done. � CHR. But will it not be counted a trespass against the Lord of the city whither we are bound, thus to violate His revealed will? �They told him that, as for that, he needed not to trouble his head thereabout; for what they did, they had custom for; and could produce, if need were, testimony that would witness it for more than a thousand years.�
After Christian had been at the foot of the cross, and had been stripped of his rags, and had received a change of raiment, and a mark in his forehead, and a roll with a seal upon it, he went on his way rejoicing. He had not gone far before he came to three men fast asleep, with fetters upon their heels. These were Simple, Sloth, and Presumption. Christian woke them, and offered to help them off with their irons; but they soon lay down again, and he had to go on alone. While he was troubled in his mind by their indifference, �he espied two men come tumbling over the wall, on the left hand of the narrow way.� Possibly, there had been some revival services, and at an exciting meeting these two men had, all of a sudden, determined to be Christians. They did not take the trouble to obtain true repentance and a living faith in the crucified Savior. They did not care about real heart work, nor about the operations of the Holy Spirit within them; but they resolved to make a profession of being Christians, and to join the church.
They thought that, as Christians wore a certain style of coat, they would wear the same, but they were not concerned as to whether their hearts were right with God or not. They came tumbling over the wall.
Bunyan says, �they made up apace� to Christian. It had taken him a long time to get where he was, but they caught up with him in a minute or two.
None seemed to grow so rapidly as those who have not roots, and who therefore are not really growing at all. A child, with a farthing�s worth of soap and a pipe, soon blows some big bubbles, painted with many colors and sparkling with beauty; but they are only bubbles. They are very quickly produced, and they as speedily vanish. Beware of getting up a sham religion. You can easily paint and grain a piece of common wood so that it will be taken for oak or sandal-wood; but it would take many years to grow the genuine oak, and many months to bring the sandal-wood from the far-off land. To imitate a good thing may be rapid work, but it will not last.
You who catch up so soon with older Christians, mind that yours is personal experience, and not such as is learned from books, or picked up at an experience meeting. When a man has nothing to carry, he can run quickly. Empty drums make a great sound, and brooks that are shallow flow at a great rate. So the Formalist and Hypocrisy make up apace to Christian.
I do not know to what sect Formalist belonged. I know his father very well, and he had several children. One of them used to go to the Church of England; in fact, two or three of that branch of the family, who were very happy and comfortable, always attended there. One or two of them took to going a little further than the Church of England, and made towards Rome, multiplying ceremonies, and gaudy dresses, and I know not what besides.
But, if I recollect right, there was one of the sons who was a Presbyterian; � he could not bear anything like Romanism, but he was a great stickler for all the forms of the kirk nevertheless. Another of the sons joined the Baptists, and a mighty fine fellow he was, � as orthodox as possible. He knew what was what in doctrine, and demanded sixteen ounces to the pound, and a little over. He would fight tooth and nail for the defense of believers� baptism and the Lord�s Supper. I am not quite certain, but I sometimes fear that at least one of the Formalist family is a member at the Tabernacle. If it is not one of the sons, perhaps it is a grandson who comes here. There are many of these people about, and we must not be surprised if some of them come to us. �Oh!� say they, �we will try to be Christians; and, in order to be Christians, there are such-and-such outward actions to be performed. We will attend the prayer-meeting; we will go to the Bible-classes; we will see the elders; we will be baptized; we will join the church; and when we have done all this, we shall have got into the right road, certainly. Have we not received, as it were, the certificate of God�s own Church that we are all right? It is true that we have tumbled over the wall; we have not been humbled on account of sin; we have not put our trust in the Lord Jesus Christ; still, we are in the right way; does not everybody say that we are? Therefore, all must be well with us.� Such was Formalist.
Hypocrisy, however, was the bigger rogue of the two, for he had not any belief in the matter at all. Formalist had, perhaps, some measure of faith of a certain sort; he thought there might be something forms and ceremonies.
But Hypocrisy said in his heart, �Ah! it is all a pretty story, but then it is a very respectable story; and if I pretend to believe it, people will think the better of me.� I recollect one member of this family saying, �If I join the church, possibly I may get an almshouse;� and another reflected, �Very likely I might secure a pension of so much a week.� Another thought, �It would be a capital thing to get into the ministry, and pick up a good living that way.� And another said within himself, �This would increase my trade; people would say, �He goes to such-and-such a chapel, we must deal with him, you know.�� There is a very numerous family of this class; and there are some others who do not expect, perhaps, to get any pecuniary gain by professing to be Christians, but who feel, �Well, you see, it makes you seem to be a good sort of person, you get the respect and esteem of your friends; your mother will be pleased; your husband will be glad; all your friends will feel so satisfied, and they will make quite a fuss over you.� So the man goes in for it, though, in his heart, he says, �There is nothing in it; it is all rubbish.� He tumbles over the wall; he does not care about the secret power of vital godliness. It is enough for him that he has got into the Christian Church, and there he means to stick. He sometimes says that he is as good as the most of us; and though he knows he is as rotten as he can be, yet he boasts himself above those trembling but earnest souls who cannot talk so glibly, nor fly so many colors at their masthead.
Well, these two men drew up apace to Christian, and he saluted them, for it is not the Christian�s duty to suspect anybody; and when he finds people in the right road, he must treat them as if they were sincere until he has proof to the contrary. If it is the law of England that every man is to be accounted honest, till he is proved to be a rogue, it should certainly be the law of the Christian Church. So, seeing them in the narrow road, in which there are so few travelers, Christian began to speak with them. He asked them whence they came, and they answered, �We were born in the land of Vain-glory.� That is where all formalists and hypocrites come from. They glory in themselves. They think their own hearts are right. They conclude that their natural goodness suffices, and therefore a few forms and a bare profession will serve them in the day of judgment. Christian also asked them, �Whither go you?� �We are going,� they said, �for praise to Mount Sion.� Alas, for love of praise! It is a most damnable snare. We all love praise; it is useless to deny it. It has been said that � �The proud, to gain it, toils on toils endure; The modest shun it but to make it sure.� We all have an eye to it at times, and no man can say that he does not more or less desire it. Of course, we do not like flattery when it is laid on with a trowel. We do not want great lumps of butter on our bread, for then we begin to suspect that it is not genuine. All of us are capable of receiving a goodly amount of praise, but it is difficult to remain in a healthy state under such circumstances.
These two men were seeking after pride. They loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. Brethren, do not we sometimes do good actions out of a desire for praise? I was thinking about this very matter today.
I have undertaken a certain duty which I do not particularly like. I would get out of it if I dared, for I do not think I shall succeed in it, and it will occupy much of my time, and give me a deal of trouble. But, while I was murmuring to myself about what a stupid I was to venture on so ungrateful a task, I thought, �I shall receive no honor and no credit for it; but, still, if I do it with a view to God�s glory throughout, and with no consideration for myself, that is enough.� If I take up a difficult work that I like, and succeed in it, everybody will say, �He has done it thoroughly well,� and so I get praise here, though I may not hear the �Well done!� when I get to my Master at the last. But if I undertake anything from which the flesh shrinks, with a single eye to God�s glory, I shall have the sweet satisfaction that my Lord approves of my action whatever comes of it.
Take care, I pray you, of �going for praise to Mount Sion.�
Christian next asked these two men this very important question, �Why came you not in at the gate which standeth at the beginning of the way?�
Now, if there should be anybody here who is saying to himself, �I am all right; I have always attended my parish church, or I have always gone to the meeting-house;� if there is one here who says, �I am all right, for I was christened,� or �I am all right, for I was baptized,� I ask you, �Why came you not in at the gate which standeth at the beginning of the way?� How is it that you did not come as God has bidden you come, by a living faith in the living Savior; by repentance; by reliance upon Him who alone is the Way, the Truth, and the Life? If you have been a church-member no matter how many years, better give up that position than let a religious profession be a winding-sheet in which to envelop a corpse. Have the life Divine within you, or else, in the Name of God, I beseech you not to make a profession which you cannot by any possibility adorn, but which will be the ruin of your soul at the last!
In answer to Christian�s question, �Why came you not in at the gate?�
Formalist and Hypocrisy gave a reason which seemed to them sufficient. �They said that, to go to the gate for entrance was, by all their countrymen, counted too far about; and that, therefore, their usual way was to make a short cut of it, and to climb over the wall, as they had done.� Formalists think, �We do not mind being christened, confirmed, taking the sacrament, and going to church or chapel; but this repenting of sin, this believing, this clinging to Christ, this seeking after holiness, � Ah! �it is too far about.�� They would rather tumble over the wall. They cry, �Peace, peace; when there is no peace.� I hope you, dear friends, are not so foolish as that.
Better go never so far roundabout, and be right, than jump hastily at a false conclusion, and find yourself mistaken. Besides, it is not �far about,� after all. The safe way is really a short way, and to trust in Christ is the direct road to eternal life.
Christian further very properly asked these men how, if it was a trespass against God to get into the road without coming in at the gate, they hoped to be accepted. If, without faith, it is impossible to please God, how can you expect to please Him by trusting to forms and ceremonies? Even your prayers are an abomination unto God unless you have come to Him, through Christ, for mercy and forgiveness. If you rest in your Biblereading, or your chapel-going, or your Sunday-school teaching, � if you depend upon anything that you are, or do, or feel, you are leaning upon that which will fail you at the last. You are really making and-Christ of these things, and putting them into the place of Jesus. How can you be right at the end if you are wrong at the start? If you come not in at the door, rest assured that you will never reach the gates of Paradise.
These men told Christian that �he needed not to trouble his head thereabout;� and that is the answer of many formalists and hypocrites.
They are harder to deal with than are the professedly unconverted. Those who have no sense of religion at all will often listen to what you have to say; while those other people, who know so much, and practice so little, tell you to mind your own business, for they are as good as you are. If you ever talk to a genuine Christian in that way, he is very thankful to you for the exhortation to examine himself. The true child of God, when he is under a searching ministry, will bear the wound, and will ask God to help the minister to probe it. It is a sign of a good state of heart when you are willing to be probed; but it is a terrible proof of hypocrisy and formalism when you say to others, �Let each man keep to his own religion; you go your way, and leave me to mine; I daresay I am as right as you are.�
These men further assured Christian that it had been the custom for more than a thousand years. In that, they spoke truly. Men have relied on outward forms, and thought themselves something when they were nothing, from time immortal. One who walked with Christ, and who even ate the sop out of the same dish with Him, betrayed Him. There have always been some having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Such were �spots� in the solemn feasts of apostolic days. They were �clouds without water, trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots.� It is so still. There are, indeed, most venerable precedents for formalism and hypocrisy. Go to Rome, and you will see plenty of them. Go into a large number of our parish churches in England, and you will see formality run mad. Step into our own Dissenting places of worship, and even in our decent sobriety how much there may be of dead formalism!
Alas! this is the religion of many professing Christians all through the land, �You need not trouble about faith, or those other weighty matters which concern the soul and God; but if you go to your place of worship, and take your seat there regularly, all will be well with you.� This is false religion; may God save us from it! May we be sincere, in our love to Christ, and in our faith in His atoning sacrifice!


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- Fareham
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- £20638 - £22446 per annum
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- 22 Aug 2017
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Employer Services Coordinator
Salary: £20,638 - £22,446 per annum
Hours of Work: Full Time - 37 Hours per week
Fareham College offers brand new state of the art facilities comprising of workshops, teaching classrooms, learning resource centres, restaurants, a theatre, a hair & beauty salon and associated facilities. The successful candidate will be a member of a team of over 300 academic and business support staff. We pride ourselves on providing the very best technical and professional training to set our students on the path to exciting and rewarding careers.
Fareham College is seeking an Employer Services Co-ordinator to manage a caseload of Apprenticeships and Employer accounts. This position will ensure outstanding customer service to all customers for the department (including internal and external, colleagues, students, apprentices and employers). Allowing the department to achieve a minimum of 95% satisfaction rates from all partners in satisfaction surveys.
Responsible for a caseload of Apprenticeship/Employer accounts you will:
- Co-ordinate a co-hort of College students on employer based training (e.g. Apprenticeships/Traineeships)
- Co-ordinate on and off the job training and learner achievement/progression.
- Liaise with cross college curriculum areas to ensure that students are progressing
- Ensure employers remain well informed and up to date with learner progress
- Work with employers to co-ordinate the delivery of a range of full cost courses
The ideal candidate for this post will have exceptional customer service and experience of apprenticeships and other similar Government initiatives. You must be qualified to level 3 and have at least level 2 qualifications in literacy and numeracy (or equivalent). You will be self-motivated, high levels of organisational skills, and adaptable.
Benefits package
30 Days Annual Leave exclusive of bank holidays, Local Government pension scheme, Free on-site gym, Staff lounge, Staff development opportunities, Staff recognition scheme, Employee Recommendation Incentive and access to many more benefits.
Closes on: Tuesday 05 September 2017
Interview Date: Wednesday 13th September 2017
The College is committed to safeguarding and promotes the welfare of all learners. It expects all staff to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring (DBS) check and to provide proof of their eligibility to work in the UK.


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I had a pretty unpleasant day today, which I channeled into an initial blog entry that ended up striking me as acid without being illuminating…on anything. Such an entry is best left to the scrap heap. Instead, I've decided to try and regain my equanimity through a series of unqualified endorsements.
- Snickers Ice Cream Bars. Yes! Snickers Ice Cream Bars. I love nougat, but ice cream is a worthy substitute. And unlike the standard bar, it's got runny caramel that flows down the middle in a generous channel. It's 180 calories, which isn't bad, but if you have no room for that extra 30 calories, the Weight Watchers Ice Cream Candy Bar is an acceptable substitution.
- Antioxidant serum. Yes! Antioxidant serum. I used this fabulous Kate Somerville one for a while, but cheaped out when it was time to replace it and got this Philosophy one instead. It was good, too. I have seen a measurable different in my skin thanks to antioxidant serums. My skin is clearer and I'm taking it on faith that they are duly obliterating free radicals, whatever the hell that means.
- Pippin. Yes! Pippin. Not the Hobbit, but a Beagle who lives in our neighborhood. True to her breed, she sets to baying every time we see her out walking in the evening. As we listen to her going batshit crazy through the street, we feel better about Petra, whose terrible leash etiquette is an ongoing source of embarrassment. Some dogs are ill-behaved, and that's just fine.
Speaking of Beagles, here is a great quote from Peter S. from here via Novelish:
There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch," which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her." You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.
- The Last Unicorn. Yes! The Last Unicorn. Not just Peter S. Beagle's novel, but the film adaptation, which is thoroughly awesome as well. Except for America. Sorry, America. They don't make children's films like this anymore – apart from say, Miyazaki and the occasional outlier like The Iron Giant – and I don't just mean the hand-drawn animation. This film has a sense of genuine danger to it that seems absent from children's film today. Another great children's film of my youth? The Secret of NIHM. Oh, it looks cute. But don't be fooled. [side note: why can't I make that 1 a 4?!]
So there, a series of endorsements, culminating in the warm glow of fond childhood memories. I feel better already.


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A lot of variety with this Reds set. We've got 23 regular base cards, 3 league leader cards, a managers card, 9 playoffs/World Series cards (some of which aren't really Reds cards, but showcase the '72 World Series which they were in), a multi-team rookie card, a team card, and a sneaky Johnny Bench cameo, on another Hall of Famer's card, nonetheless. For you math experts out there, that's 39 cards from the set I felt the need to hunt down.
As far as design, Topps was dull gray in 1970, simple black in 1971, then an LSD-induced haze in 1972. They decided to follow that up with simple white in 1973. There's still a splotch of color encircling the position silhouettes, but this set would start a white-as-the-main-color trend (exception, obviously, is 1975). The periodic action shots and the variety make it an excellent Reds set, though, so the white works.
The Reds were coming off of two World Series losses in 1970 and 1972 and were starting to perfect their near-perfect Big Red Machine roster that would surface in 1975. Let's check the stats.
Cards - 39
RC's - 2 (Bill Plummer, Mel Behney)
All Stars - 16 (Hal McRae, Denis Menke, Johnny Bench x3, Clay Carroll x2, Jack Billingham, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, Gary Nolan, Tony Perez, Jim McGlothlin, Ross Grimsley, George Foster, Dave Concepcion)
Hall of Famers - 6 (Johnny Bench x3, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez, Sparky Anderson)
Reds Hall of Famers - 15 (Clay Carroll x2, Gary Nolan, Jack Billingham, Johnny Bench x3, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez, Sparky Anderson, Dave Concepcion, Don Gullett, George Foster, Cesar Geronimo, Pedro Borbon)
Vintage In-Game Action Shots - 15
All-Time Non-Reds Making Appearances - Dick Allen, Sparky Lyle, Bert Campaneris, Willie McCovey
8 Tom Hall
28 Hal McRae
52 Denis Menke
62 Johnny Bench - Dick Allen LL HR63 Johnny Bench - Dick Allen LL RBI
68 Clay Carroll - Sparky Lyle LL Fireman
89 Jack Billingham
130 Pete Rose
156 Cesar Geronimo
177 Bill Plummer
195 Clay Carroll
202 NL Playoffs Foster's Run Decides it
205 World Series Game 3 Reds win a squeaker
207 World Series Game 5 Odom out at the plate
208 World Series Game 6 Red's Sluggers tie series
230 Joe Morgan
260 Gary Nolan
275 Tony Perez
296 Reds Mgr/Coaches
318 Jim McGlothlin
335 Bob Tolan
357 Ross Grimsley
380 Johnny Bench
399 George Foster
447 Joe Hague
492 Pedro Borbon
507 Darrel Chaney
533 Larry Stahl
554 Dave Concepcion
595 Don Gullett
602 Rookie Pitchers Mel Behney - Ralph Garcia - Doug Rau
626 Bob Barton641 Reds Team
410 Willie McCovey ft. Johnny Bench
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006
This issue is something that Greg Haslam referred to at the "Preach the Word" conference on Saturday and it's been playing on my mind ever since. Greg referred to men such as Martin Luther and C H Spurgeon with quite mind-blowing work ethics. How do we match up? I read Dr John Piper's excellent mini-biography of Luther again from his work, "The Legacy of Sovereign Joy". Consider this:
"Walther von Loewenich said in his biography, "Luther was one of the greatest preachers in the history of Christendom ... Between 1510 and 1546 Luther preached approximately 3,000 sermons. Frequently he preached several times a week, often two or more times a day ...
For example, in 1522 he preached 117 sermons in Wittenberg and 137 sermons the next year. In 1528 he preached almost 200 times, and from 1529 we have 121 sermons. So the average in those four years was one sermon every two-and-a-half days. As Fred Meuser says in his book on Luther's preaching, "Never a weekend off—he knows all about that. Never even a weekday off. Never any respite at all from preaching, teaching, private study, production, writing, counseling ...
What he accomplished borders on the superhuman, and of course makes pygmies of us all ... ".
Piper quotes Luther himself:
"Let ministers daily pursue their studies with diligence and constantly busy themselves with them ... Let them steadily keep on reading, teaching, studying, pondering, and meditating. Nor let them cease until they have discovered and are sure that they have taught the devil to death and have become more learned than God himself and all His saints ". And Piper says quite rightly "that means never".
What of C H Spurgeon?
John Piper chose C H Spurgeon as his biography topic at the Bethlehem Conference for Pastors in 1995 and, concerning Spurgeon's work, Piper said this:
"He preached over 600 times before he was 20 years old. His sermons sold about 20,000 copies a week and were translated into 20 languages. The collected sermons fill 63 volumes equivalent to the 27 volume ninth edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, and "stands" as the largest set of books by a single author in the history of Christianity".
He quoted Spurgeon himself who said:
"No one living knows the toil and care I have to bear ... I have to look after the Orphanage, have charge of a church with four thousand members, sometimes there are marriages and burials to be undertaken, there is the weekly sermon to be revised, The Sword and the Trowel to be edited, and besides all that, a weekly average of five hundred letters to be answered. This, however, is only half my duty, for there are innumerable churches established by friends, with the affairs of which I am closely connected, to say nothing of the cases of difficulty which are constantly being referred to me"
Of Spurgeon's working week, Piper said:
"He typically read six substantial books a week and could remember what he read and where to find it. He produced more than 140 books of his own—books like The Treasury of David, which was twenty years in the making, and Morning and Evening, and Commenting on Commentaries, and John Ploughman's Talk, and Our Own Hymnbook ... He often worked 18 hours in a day".
Ah! But says a rational, sensible, mature friend reading this. What glory to God is there if we burn ourselves out by trying to emulate Luther and Spurgeon? Well Spurgeon had an answer to that:
"If by excessive labour, we die before reaching the average age of man, worn out in the Master's service, then glory be to God, we shall have so much less of earth and so much more of Heaven! ... It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed".
Greg Haslam quoted a predecessor of his at Westminster Chapel who said that we should be ASHAMED if we wake up and hear the footsteps of the lost walking to work while we lie in bed. Serious stuff.
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- jul said...
Hmmm... I agree and disagree at the same time! Didn't even Jesus rest when he was on earth? I think there is room for balance, there will be times of work without a break, and then again, God made us and intended us to rest one day out of 7. There is something about rest that helps us to go deeper with God. I think we react sometimes to a culture of avoiding work and running after as much pleasure and relaxation as possible. As believers, we must be willing to obey God at all times no matter what we had planned. That means sometimes we might have to skip our 'vacation' or day off. We might have to give up something for the body of Christ. We might have to love someone else more than ourselves.
- 06 June, 2006 13:16
THANK YOU JUL! *nodding vigorously as I read*
I've been both ends of the spectrum - wife of the pastor, a perfectionist, with a newborn, a toddler, and two kindergardeners I was home educating (ohmyheavens - if you can teach a kid to READ, you can teach anything!)...working myself right into a Dr's office, and having to wear a 24 hr. heart monitor, only to be told, "Mrs. Atchley, your symptoms are stress related. You need rest."
After that, I learned a secret: the Sabbath is a command that is still in force. I am now a Sabbath keeper. I stop to smell the roses, watch the stars come out, and I take walks wantonly.
Mr. Luther was born for such a time as his, and I do believe God gave him grace for his pace. (oh - that's MINE, ya'll. "Grace for Your Pace". You can't have that. ACK!) Were I to come into a season where it became necessary for me to work at that level, the grace would be there.
But I've tried in my own human strength to be super human. It gave me a lot to be proud of in my flesh, until I crashed. And my chidren suffered. And my husband's ministry was hampered temporarily.
I also thank God that, though finances are always an issue, faith is always required - my Timothy is no longer in bi-vocational pergatory. People who wax eloquent on being a "tent making pastor" have not spent much time DOING IT. Something always suffers - ministry included. It is NOT the ideal situation - I'll go to the mattresses on that. Families in ministry everywhere are suffering, because men are being asked to embrace this mirage of tent making ministry - when in some cases their actual calling is that those who preach the gospel should have the guts to LIVE of the gospel. (I realize that some cling to "day jobs" out of a lack of faith)
I thank GOD that the days are past when we never saw Tim, and had no hope of seeing him - when he was up at 5 AM, going to construction sites to work all day in TY-Vek in the hot sun (hazardous waste testing and removal work) only to come home and counsel, pastor, pray, study, AND do carpentry work on the church building we were in. Going to bed at midnight, getting up a few hours later - it aged him. I do not exaggerate one I-ota.
As it is today, is as it should be. The man has time to study and pray and time to mentor other younger men - and sometimes men older than he. He also has time to take me out on hot dates - this evening we have one scheduled, in fact. A nice little Italian place - we have coupons for ten bucks off PER PLATE, plus on Tuesdays, the bottles of wine are HALF PRICE!
I've sought the Lord, and I can say this with total confidence: the Lord smiles when we take time for each other like this. Our marriage is a picture of Christ and His bride - and I'm asked to not mess up God's allegories. So there are times indeed - every day, I believe - when we are asked to go beyond what we think we can accomplish. At the same time, however, obeying the Lord is, in some cases,EASY and a complete joy. (oh, heresy!!)
There are still long seasons when we don't see "dad". He is a busy man - who can and often does do the work of two or three men. But at least now, when he is in a season of seeming 24/7 responsibility, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. We can live our life in *seasons* of "crazy" and "not so crazy" - rather than perpetual insanity with no end in sight.
Remember Mary? The one who chose the better thing, and Jesus would never take it from her? I want that to be me. I'm willing to be in the kitchen metaphorically speaking (and I'm always there anyhow), but I'm sick of cooking lunches Jesus never asked for.
- 06 June, 2006 15:56
I love Charles Spurgeon,
He is so cut and dry, and so full of real passion! His book Lectures to my students is a great book that I have enjoyed. Good practical advice. I love that he was virtually a Holy-Spirit taught man. I heard that he never went to cemetary. Ooops I mean Seminary!
I am a musician and I would be honored if you would check out my music. All my music is free for download. Anyway, I don't mean to be a pest, just thought I'd share.
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- 08 July, 2006 06:23


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Yes, I know that Ryle died in 1900! But I think his words are a particularly appropriate response to Rob Bell's Love Wins.
If you would ever be a healthy and scriptural Christian, I entreat you to beware of any ministry which does not plainly teach the reality and eternity of hell. Such a ministry may be soothing and pleasant, but it is far more likely to lull you to sleep than to lead you to Christ or build you up in the faith. It is impossible to leave out any portion of God's truth without spoiling the whole. That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven and never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell. It may be popular, but it is not scriptural; it may amuse and gratify, but it will not save. Give me the preaching which keeps back nothing that God has revealed. You may call it stern and harsh; you may tell us that to frighten people is not the way to do them But you are forgetting that the grand object of the gospel is to "persuade men to flee from the wrath to come," and that it is vain to expect men to flee unless they are afraid. Well would it be for many professing Christians if they were more afraid about their souls than they now are!
Taken from the chapter "Lot – A Beacon" in Holiness by J.C. Ryle


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Ceremony: Entanglement
Silko's Ceremony is not an easy read. The uneasiness of the reading, I have been suggesting, has something to do with cultural difference we can associate with Native American perspectives. One version of this, for most of us, is the blending of myth (in the poetic sections) and realistic narrative (in the novel's prose); such that we can loose focus on what we take to be the novel proper: Tayo, his story, our protagonist, the plot. In discussions, we have begun to explore ways that this confusion (or blending, hybridity) of poetry and prose and oral and literate tradition, of white/Christian and Native is important to the focus of the novel. Call it interconnectedness, as some have suggested on their blogs. The novel, ironically, offers its focus through our own inability to focus on it. The reader is something like Tayo, in this regard, entangled in the story.
But what if the uneasiness of the reading is not just a problem of our focus, a problem of our cultural difference or distance that we bring to the novel? What if it is also a mark of its environmental orientation? In other words, what if a lesson of this novel's environmental perspective–what makes it 'green'–is the loss of our own perspective? Silko uses the word entanglement to describe the struggle Auntie has in reconciling the old instincts of family and native tradition, and particularly, of "sensitivity" with the world, with Christian traditions and English words separating her from that older world :
But now the feelings were twisted, tangled roots, and all the names for the source of this growth were buried under English words, out of reach. And there would be no peace and the people would have no rest until the entanglement had been unwound to the source. [64]
Reading this passage, I thought of the famous concluding paragraph of Darwin's Origin of Species, where he turns to the image of entanglement to reiterate his vision of nature's biodiversity and its developmental difference from the prevailing view of separate, individual creation of species.
It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse: a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, while this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.
Entanglement, from the evolutionary or ecological perspective, is necessary, fundamental. And note that with Darwin, we have a vision of natural development that is also spiritual, creative. In fact, reading this passage at this point in the course, you might well hear and see the likes of Thoreau, of Dillard, of Berry, of Leopold. I think of Thoreau looking at the sandbank, seeing in the thaw a prototype for nature's entanglement of life and death, bowels and beauty: Walden was dead and is alive again. I hear Dillard, thinking about all that intricacy and fecundity, on the tangled fringe of creation. What else might you hear or see in this notion of entanglement?
And if we hear Silko as well, hear the problem of Tayo's entanglement in the context of nature's entanglement, that suggests to me that a lesson of the novel is that we need to understand the entanglement of roots, but not solve it. In some sense, I think we see that Auntie's desire to untangle things is as problematic as the desire to destroy. Entanglement is a form of intricacy. And intricacy in the imaginative world of story, as in the natural world, dies when it stops shifting. "Things which don't shift and grow are dead things," Betonie tells Tayo (116).
Isn't that kind of entanglement, call it weaving, the heart of a good story? But story also requires some sort of resolution. What does Silko's story resolve?
For a related perspective, consider this poem by the Native American poet Joy Harjo, "A Map to the Next World."


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A persistent Son Heung-min gave Spurs a 1-0 lead on 16 minutes when he rounded a helpless Fraser Forster before slotting into an empty net.
But Davis drew the visitors level turning in Dusan Tadic's cross at the near post.
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Jose Fonte blocked substitute Nacer Chadli from putting his attempt on goal late into stoppage time as Spurs looked to salvage a point.
Southampton climbed into sixth place ahead of West Ham who has a game in hand.
Tottenham: Lloris (c), Walker, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Rose; Dier, Mason (Chadli 78), Lamela, Eriksen, Son (Clinton 65), Kane.
Unused subs: Vorm, Davies, Wimmer, Carroll, Winks.
Bookings: None.
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Unused subs: Stekelenburg, Cedric, Yoshida, Austin.
Bookings: Mane, Romeu, Long.
Goals: Davis (31, 72)