(seen at NeoTheo(b)logue)
"The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say."
(seen from Wendy Cooper in this post)
our lives are full of noise
too much information
too many messages that don't add up to any coherent while
all competing for our attention we can't find signal or make
any sense of our lives
and so we go into the dessert to escape the noise
(seen at TheyBlinked in this post)
many get lost in the pursuit of,
or the desire to hold onto,
being first.
no one fights to be last
(seen from Clay.Humanclay.ca)
I'll Be Found
I guess I'll stay stranded
along this winding road
watching those who pass me by
holding on to the slim hope of being found
I'll wait to find if this will last forever
But it won't
I'm being searched for
I'm know I'll be found
I'm not alone in this fight
I'm gonna win this round
I guess I'll burn in the flames
surrounding this firey house
watching those who wonder why
I'm holding on to the slim chance of being found
I'll wait to find if this will last forever
But it won't
I'm being searched for
I'm know I'll be found
I'm not alone in this fight
I'm gonna win this round
I guess I'll get poured on
walking in this cold wet rain
ignoring all those stupid lies
holding on to the slim chance of being found
I'll wait to find if this will last forever
But it won't
I'm being searched for
I'm know I'll be found
I'm not alone in this fight
I'm gonna win this round
(seen from OPEN MIC NIGHT)
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."
Melody Beattie
Author
(seen at wanderer :: worshipper :: lover of leaving)
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
from "Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke, et al.
(a poem I wrote yesterday)
(seen at Le Sabot Post-Moderne)
I'm beginning to see parallels between coming to love and understand another culture and understand a member of the opposite sex.
[read the rest here]
(seen from The Cathy J Weblog)
"Our personal name is at one and the same time the most common element in our identity and the most distinctive... Naming is honoring. Naming is choosing."
--from Leap Over a Wall : Earthy Spirituality for Everyday Christians
by Eugene H. Peterson
(seen at TheyBlinked)
Unfortunately, we have only a little control over which narratives master us. But it'd be worth trying...
(seen in this post at The Invisible Sun)
"...there are only two difficult questions. One is sex. Sexuality has to do with intimacy and power; the Bible, so it seems to me, intends covenanted sex and not promiscuity or exploitation. The other hard question is money, for money is about freedom and control, and the Bible is for convenantal economics that are not promiscuous or exploitive. It strikes me as odd - but predictable - that conservatives, people who tend to stress evangelism, care a lot about covenantal sexuality but seem strangely naive about promiscuous, self-indulgent economics. Coversely liberals, who seem to care about social action, have some sense of covenantal economics but tend to mumble about sex."
--quoted by Jamie Howison, an Anglican Priest from Winnipeg
(a poem I wrote this morning)
(seen at wanderer :: worshipper :: lover of leaving)
Change isn’t that unusual. Change is happening all the time … but when a lot of change is concentrated in a short amount of time, the landscape never looks the same again. Structures that used to help us and maps that used to describe reality suddenly are tourist attractions and artefacts ... to look at with a mixture of sadness and humour and they can’t be taken as seriously as they were before."
-- Brian Mclaren
[Note: the following may offend some.]
-suppose that two rapes occur, one using contraception, the other not.
-assume society only recognized the latter as rape, calling it "explicitly open, honest and natural", while the former was considered "explicitly closed, contrived and artificial".
-opponents could point to the use of contraception, depicting it as "sensitive" and therefore not rape
-opponents might consider more potential cases of rape as diluting the definition
-proponents could point to the condition of exploitation as the major element of rape, considering the contraception issue as too narrow
-proponents might consider the present definition as oversimplistic
(seen in the Globe and Mail, an article by Norman Spector)
The Dilemma
The good news is that an overwhelming majority believe same-sex unions deserve respect and should be recognized in law. The bad news is that some gays and lesbians, rather than valorizing and expressing pride in their distinctiveness, insist on validation by marriage, a traditionally heterosexual institution.The Sticking Point
Though it's been under attack from many directions (mostly straight), all Canadians have an interest in finding ways to strengthen marriage, given the relationship between poverty and family breakdown. Still, as gays and lesbians correctly note, they too raise kids, not all heterosexual couples have children and society allows senior citizens and infertile men and women to marry.
(seen in the Globe And Mail article Oh, Canada: a divided approach to marriage by JOHN IBBITSON)
In 1988, the Supreme Court struck down the criminal law on abortion.
Parliament, riven by the most divisive moral issue of the day, could not produce a new law that a majority of MPs and senators would support. So today, there is effectively no law at all regarding abortion in Canada, which means abortion is legal.
Exactly the same solution -- if solution is what you would call it -- may be about to befall the issue of same-sex marriage
...
If so, what would happen then?
In the short term, gay marriage would be legal in some provinces and not in others. Since gay spouses already have equal rights and responsibilities under the law -- thanks to a Supreme Court decision in 1999 extending spousal benefits to same-sex couples -- there would be no serious impairment of gay rights. Same-sex couples could tie the knot in Ontario, British Columbia and probably soon in Quebec -- most of the country, in other words -- and that list would grow as separate court challenges were brought before other provincial appeals courts. Mind you, getting married in Ontario and divorced in Alberta might be an adventure, but lawyers thrive on such things.
Eventually, the issue would land before the Supreme Court, which would probably rule in favour of same-sex marriage. Unless and until that day arrived, we would simply live with a patchwork law
(seen in the Globe And Mail article Gay lobby complacent, law professor warns By KIRK MAKIN)
Gay activists and their lawyers are caught up in celebrating their landmark victory in the Ontario Court of Appeal and have lost sight of the very real possibility that politicians may use the Charter of Rights and Freedoms' notwithstanding clause to reverse it, University of Toronto law professor Kent Roach said.
"I think this is a serious mistake," he told a University of Western Ontario Charter conference.
...
However, Prof. Roach said advocates of gay marriage have to counteract a wave of anger about the ruling instead of resting in the knowledge that the courts tend to side solidly in their favour.
"Even if you get the biggest win possible in court, you still have continuing work," Prof. Roach said in an interview after his speech.
"I really think the debate would be improved by less incantation of Charter rights and more discussion of what the merits of their case really are."
(seen at Been There...Still There)
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.--Lucretius. Latin poet and philosopher, flourished 1st century BC
Sometimes the ties that bind cement rifts.
(seen at Eden's Dream as dreamt by eric blauer)
(seen from new rags: the wonder of the gospel of grace)
Darren Friesen liked the GapingVoid.com stuff that's been featured there. Go to Darren's blog at this post to see what caught his eye.
(I originally was referred to Gapingvoid.com through TheyBlinked.)
(seen at Clay.Humanclay.ca)
(seen from Open Mic Night)
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
-- Eric Hoffer
(seen at TheyBlinked)
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
~Soren Kierkegaard
:.1813 - 1855
(seen at Pneumatica in the Attempt at Poetry section)
Do we dare to cross the expanse?
-willing to toss ourselves un-armored into the unknown
-not only unprepared but also extremely afraid?
Not even the best- those who have survived-
can explain, foresee, or comfort
those of us embraced by the challenge.
Yet we jump willingly-
and grow exponentially because of this adventure
that lasts longer and goes deeper than we imagine.
Sometimes what is required is a rest
-a rest of the mind that holds our essence
-our experiences, perceptions and memories.
And while those three things battle
we toss aside our cares and take joy in our respite
leaning on each other- waiting and willing to grow together.
(seen at gapingvoid.com)
(seen at monkhouse blog)
Redemption is the promise that anything sacred, if destroyed, can also be rebuilt.
"Too much unity leads to trivia or boredom. Too little unity leads to chaos and disintegration."
(from Care of Persons, Care of Worlds by Larry Kent Graham, pp. 101-2)
(seen in the Library News, p. 25)
Paths in space, in time, and from person to person, make the web of life. Often our paths are mechanical and dull, as dictated by the needs of survival. We cross ours with those of anonymous others, without anything remarkable happening. But occasionally, we reach a "station", with which we associate emotions and feelings. Those are special moments in our lives, in which our being comes into focus better than ever. We mark them in our memory and keep going over them, over and over again.--Gustavo Corelli
Our lives take place in the perennial cycle of the seasons, at which Nature is always at work. We look around often without paying attention to what we see. But sometimes, slivers of an image stick and become buried in our memory, perhaps without us being aware, only to re-emerge unexpectedly later, after the season is over.
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