the community blog of vine & branches christian community - a journal of who we are and what we're going through as a community of faith
Pray with us
> 22nd week in ordinary time
> psalter week 2
> morning prayer
> evening prayer
> night prayer
> lectionary reading
click here to donate to palmer's medical bill fund through vine & branches. your gift through paypal will be tagged for mark's needs. note: paypal does charge a small fee per transaction, can't help that. thank you!
atom xml feed
Recent Posts
> Our retreat on Saturday was a very good thing. We ...
> Retreat tomorrow with the Nixons and Rains from Vi...
> OK, I'm on here on Thursday morning this time. We ...
> Hi, again...I forgot earlier that I wanted to reco...
> Hey, everybody--sorry it's been so long since I co...
> Seems I always get on here at night after our meet...
> We all have a tendacy to get set in our ways and i...
> Tonight was good. Robert is on his turn at facilit...
> Where's everygody at!? Well, I'm here. Nothing spe...
> Here's what we did last night: we went out to eat ...
Archives
> April 2002
> May 2002
> June 2002
> July 2002
> August 2002
> September 2002
> October 2002
> November 2002
> December 2002
> January 2003
> February 2003
> March 2003
> April 2003
> May 2003
> June 2003
> July 2003
> August 2003
> September 2003
> October 2003
> November 2003
> March 2004
> May 2004
> June 2004
> July 2004
> August 2004
> September 2004
> October 2004
> November 2004
> December 2004
> January 2005
> February 2005
> March 2005
> April 2005
> May 2005
> July 2005
> August 2005
Hey, all! It's the 4th of July--which, in keeping with Alan's apolitical stand, is a great day to kick back, sleep late, catch up on some blog reading, and then go watch some guy blow up a lot of gunpowder! (Only a minor dig at you, Alan; you know I'm growing closer to your views on things politic every day.) We had a great time at the gathering last night--Alan actually "went short" and meant it (that's not why it went great, tho'). We did the evening office, which I'm still getting used to (where's the "three hymns and a poem"?). I enjoyed it; it was a good spiritual time and we discussed what we had read afterward, which I suspect is not always done with the traditional evening office. We missed Molly and Robert (things were much quieter, for some reason). I really wish they could have been there, but they're out in Tulsa, spyin' out the land. I have to admit that I'm really conflicted about this. I want God's best for them, and if Tulsa is what He wants for them, then OK; but I have really grown to love them both in the short time I've known them and hate to think of them moving halfway across the country. Thank God for the internet, I guess!
OK, I know I'm a website novice, but I really didn't know that Alan had his own blog set up. I should have known that one outlet wasn't enough for him! Anyway, I took some time this morning to go there and catch up on reading his "deep thoughts" (and also the not-so-deep ones). Re: the "love shack"; I read what you had to say and as I was, I remembered a song from the early 90's from a Christian band called Jacob's Trouble (anybody remember them?). Anyway, the song is called "Lovehouse" and I thought I would share the lyrics with you all so you know that the concept is not just an 80's phenom. Here goes.....
LOVEHOUSE
Love, baby, love is getting hard to find/Don't seem like much to go around/Peace, baby, peace is like a river/But it's been flowing underground too long/There's a place I know where we can go...//CHORUS: Come on down to the house of love/This is the house where love lives/Come on down to the house of love/This is the house, this is the place//Kick, baby, kick it back and stay a while/Forget all about your best laid plans, man/Shake, baby, shake it loose and celebrate/Lose your shoes and join the dance/Dance, dance, dance/Come on in and find peace of mind...
That's an abbreviated version, but you get the idea. So now I'm going to make myself presentable and go see Men In Black II with Brian and Matt--yee, haw!! Then I hope to hook up with some friends from work and see if we can't find a guy who's blowing up a lot of gunpowder. "It's a good thing," as Martha would say.
Later!
Debi
| posted by #Debi | 1:00 PM | |