Thanks for helping me see what’s more important. Thanks for giving me space to let go off what I now consider “skybalon” when compared to what I encountered in Cameron Highlands. Thanks for moving me forward …
Month: March 2007
Random Thoughts with a full stomach
Nowadays, Gareth initiates lots of conversations … and it usually starts with a question. After allowing myself to “feel” or “identify” with the tragedies I’m either reading or am in touch with, it makes some other requests I see as trivial and selfish. We have so much, from the cash in our wallets to the…
Brian Eno – Ambient 1: Music For Airports [Remastered]
Music Code provided by Song2Play.Com Listening to the Ambient Music is a regular diet for me, so I thought it would be good to get to know the father of modern ambient music a little better. Fasinating quote below: ‘Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in…
I’m hearing these Voices …
The Truth Of The Matter It’s statements like this that makes me see how Haris Ibrahim views the state of our nation and makes me re-look at how I respond : “I am against the ‘Islamisation’ that we see happening in our country. I am not against Islam. It is simply that, in my view,…
Dally: This is so wrong …
I’m disturbed tonight as I read about the late young Dally here in Mutilated body of 7-year-old girl shatters refugees’ dream and Stench leads to gory find. This was brought to my attention last night at one of our LiFE Group meetings by a member. And this morning I got an email with more news….
Why do we sing?
“The bird does not sing because it has answers. It sings because it has a song.” – Chinese proverb quoted by Margaret Somerville in the first of her lectures on The Ethical Imagination (HT: Parking Lot) Elysia loves singing … she sings in the car, she sings when i carry her, she sings at my…
Holy Spirit
“Holy Spirit, giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, you are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.” – Hildegard of Bingen (HT: inward/outward) I woke up from a “fulfilling” 40 wink nap a while…
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The Retention Factor Some good practical advice here, I shared some of it to people last week — > “Take the 3rd party learning approach as much as possible. This means learning and reading as if you were going to teach the same material to someone tonight.” The Passion: The Gospel as Political Parody Ched…
Random Thoughts before trying to sleep
This week has been quite a week indeed. Coming back from a memorial service for Brother Eric Kirton created some space for me to reflect on significant issues. A number of days earlier I was watching and walking with a member of my church losing his mom was hard. It’s hard to be professional about…
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William Wilberforce as Evangelical Leftist? Good challenge — > “How many evangelicals–or any of the rest of us–recognize that the long haul is the only way to get things done politically? Yes, things do eventually come to exciting crises, but the way those crises “break” has a lot to do with the processes that precede…