My heart was warmed tonight as I read a reflection from a new friend who came to our Good Friday service. These are his thoughts in Bahasa Malaysia from Upacara Tenebrae di BLC. For me, Good Friday has now become an important date for me to seriously be in an environment where I can re-look…
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Holy Saturday
Thanks Maggi Dawn for the following … Some how I needed to hear this. “Today is the day after; the day we remember the dark, unfathomable depth of despair the disciples must have faced at the unbelievable loss of not only their friend and mentor, but the person who embodied all their hopes of spiritual…
Random Thoughts on Holy Saturday
Watching a surge of energy in one of the long sleeping blogs brings a smile to my face. He writes well and I wish him well … keep on blogging. Mixed feelings tonight. Scattered thoughts too. Good Friday ended with some lingering phrases and pictures in my mind. A decent supper followed. This morning started…
Close Encounters with Death
3 wakes this Lent is more than the usual for me … first it was Zewt’s Mom, then it was my friend Colin’s Dad, tomorrow night will be for someone closer to the family cousin Sally. There are stories to be told for each of them. And when cousin Jenny told me of the final…
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catalyst monthly podcast There are some speakers who I know will have “stuff” to catalyze me forward. Podcasts from The Center for Excellence in Preaching When I saw Mp3s for Lewis Smedes, Barbara Brown Taylor, Thomas G. Long, and especially Paul Scot Wilson … the rest is less hard disk space for me after the…
Blessed Palm Sunday
I wish all those who will be affirming their faith in Bangsar Lutheran Church during our worship gathering at 10am later … a blessed re-start (of jumpstart) in their faith journey in Christ and with the Church sent back into the world. 🙂 May we reflect the nature of our citizenship in the “kingdom” of…
ReAlignment
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 …
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,…