"Simple Prayer is necessary, even essential, to the spiritual life. The only way we move beyond "self-centred prayer" (if indeed we ever do) is by going through it, not by making a detour around it. – Richard J. Foster, Prayer, p. 11 My earliest memories of prayer is when I prayed for my mom…
Month: January 2008
Richard St. John: Why do people succeed?
short, sweet and fun!
Using Windows Live Writer
I thought I will give Windows Live Writer a test drive… should be ok! 🙂 Registration Open for Friends in Conversation 2008 with LeRon Shults (Insert Hyperlink check!) (Strange man smiling at me … Insert Picture check! ) Insert Table (check!) I am … Impressed! Couldn’t find Malaysia on the map yet … so went…
Signs of Emergence: A Vision for Church That Is Always Organic/Networked/Decentralized/Bottom-Up/Communal/Flexible/Always Evolving (I)
I have a confession to make. 🙂 I find these cool long subtitles like “A Vision for Church That Is Always Organic/Networked/Decentralized/Bottom-Up/Communal/Flexible/Always Evolving” quite sexy … With that off my chest, I think it’s time to share some of the books which have caught my attention the past year. Now, craze right now perhaps is…
Take-away-Love: I love this box!
As some of you might know, Some of us from BLC and those in Art for Soul worked together for this simple project. It’s a little box of goodies, we hope and trust can serve as a gift which generates hope and practical acts of kindness. There are a number of good chances coming up…
Unified Theory
From a comment in a previous post, It’s good to know there are Malaysian’s appreciating The Cobalt Season’s musical artistic work. Ryan should we start a fan club here? I’ll bring the Shandy! 🙂 Love the songs. And I miss the fun times we had when we were roaming KL and Malacca together with Holly…
God, Our First Friend
“WHAT DOES IT MEAN to be a friend of God? … The mystics joyfully remind us that we are born from God; we live in God; and we return to God. Certainly we know this is true as we watch an orange-red sun drop beneath the edge of the ocean or witness a newborn kicking…
Begin Again – The Cobalt Season
A good song to start the year … begin again. For many of us we “… need a place now to begin ….”!
Random Links 211
 Top 10 Reasons to be an Episcopalian/Anglican My favorite one which applies to Lutherans as well … “You don’t have to know how to swim to get baptized. “ A reflection on Rublev’s icon of the Trinity I think the opening sentence is spot on : ” So often the Christian faith which atheists reject…
Random Thoughts before attempting to sort out personal library
It’s good to know I’ve managed to reach Day 8 of my own 30 challenged to reenter my rhythm for journaling-prayer-meditation. It still hasn’t moved back into more paragraph writing yet. Perhaps, it’s because I’m also blogging too. This morning’s Upper Room Devotional was good. A timely word after an unexpected email. My mind wanders…