Comments on: about me http://wol1959.wordpress.com discovering signs of god's tomorrow Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:32:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Faith McGill-Cossick http://wol1959.wordpress.com/about/#comment-3093 Faith McGill-Cossick Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:32:14 +0000 https://wol1959.wordpress.com/about/#comment-3093 Where are you Big Dog? Who are you? Where are you Big Dog?
Who are you?

]]> By: Arth26 http://wol1959.wordpress.com/about/#comment-2993 Arth26 Mon, 18 May 2009 14:14:05 +0000 https://wol1959.wordpress.com/about/#comment-2993 thanks, big dog. i'm honored to have my thoughts of September 5, 2006 pronounced sensible, a word never once in fifty years applied to any thought, word, or deed having its genesis in me. bless you, big dog. you are, i suspect, a good big dog, a faithful and feeling companion. trot ever closer to our Master. today i trot with jaunty dignity borrowed from the master, thanks to your affirming comment made over a year ago. i remain a sayer of sensible things thanks, big dog. i’m honored to have my thoughts of September 5, 2006 pronounced sensible, a word never once in fifty years applied to any thought, word, or deed having its genesis in me. bless you, big dog. you are, i suspect, a good big dog, a faithful and feeling companion. trot ever closer to our Master. today i trot with jaunty dignity borrowed from the master, thanks to your affirming comment made over a year ago.

i remain a sayer of sensible things

]]> By: big dog http://wol1959.wordpress.com/about/#comment-1505 big dog Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:18:02 +0000 https://wol1959.wordpress.com/about/#comment-1505 <strong>big dog</strong> Definitely, the most sensible thing i have seen in a long time. big dog

Definitely, the most sensible thing i have seen in a long time.

]]> By: Faith McGill-Cossick http://wol1959.wordpress.com/about/#comment-251 Faith McGill-Cossick Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:44:47 +0000 https://wol1959.wordpress.com/about/#comment-251 September 5, 2006 I'd just like to tell someone I love God. I love Jesus. I'm feeling sad and alone and as though there isn't a human soul to whom I could express this love and expect them to believe me. I am often angry; I am nearly always tired and in some sort of relatively minor, but constant physical pain. I am 47 years old, a woman, and wouldn't venture to say when it was I "became a Christian." Other than to pronounce that it was apparently from the foundation of the earth He chose to call me to Himself. And yet I am angry that I have yet to "seem" to have come to Him at all. I know I am His. I want to scream my thanks for that. But I am not "nice." I do not "play well with others." I am angry, so angry and disappointed. But I love Him. I love Him because He first loved me and I love Him imperfectly so imperfectly because He so seldom does things the way I would wish him to. This morning I am thankful for Bob Dylan's new album, "Modern Times." If I could I would hug Bob Dylan close, tell him how beautiful and sweet he is and assure him, for what it's worth, that I don't doubt he's still clinging to Jesus for dear life. I never expected him to start sounding like the Gaithers, never wanted him to start traveling with Billy Graham. I would appologize to him on behalf of my fellow evangelical church nice people of whom I am not really a part and do not know how to be. My heart aches to create beauty that will both thank God for saving me and will relieve other's ache and help Him draw them to Him. But too much of my energy is spent in anger, hate, dissapointment, longing for escape and retribution. Here are the words from Dylan's "When the Deal Goes Down" that melted my icy heart this morning: In the still of the night, in the world's ancient light Where wisdom grows up in strife My bewildered brain, toils in vain Through the darkness on the pathways of life Each invisible prayer is like a cloud in the air Tomorrow keeps turning around We live and we die, we know not why But I'll be with you when the deal goes down We eat and we drink, we feel and we think Far down the street we stray I laugh and I cry and I'm haunted by Things I never meant or wished to say The midnight rain follows the train We all wear the same thorny crown Doul to soul, our shadows roll And I'll be with you when the deal goes down." There are two more verses but these first two are sufficient to let me know I am not alone on this planet. There are others who strut and fret and never get to be elders or elders wives but who know that they know that they know they'll be with their God and He will be with them "when the deal goes down." September 5, 2006 I’d just like to tell someone I love God. I love Jesus. I’m feeling sad and alone and as though there isn’t a human soul to whom I could express this love and expect them to believe me. I am often angry; I am nearly always tired and in some sort of relatively minor, but constant physical pain. I am 47 years old, a woman, and wouldn’t venture to say when it was I “became a Christian.” Other than to pronounce that it was apparently from the foundation of the earth He chose to call me to Himself. And yet I am angry that I have yet to “seem” to have come to Him at all. I know I am His. I want to scream my thanks for that. But I am not “nice.” I do not “play well with others.” I am angry, so angry and disappointed. But I love Him. I love Him because He first loved me and I love Him imperfectly so imperfectly because He so seldom does things the way I would wish him to. This morning I am thankful for Bob Dylan’s new album, “Modern Times.” If I could I would hug Bob Dylan close, tell him how beautiful and sweet he is and assure him, for what it’s worth, that I don’t doubt he’s still clinging to Jesus for dear life. I never expected him to start sounding like the Gaithers, never wanted him to start traveling with Billy Graham. I would appologize to him on behalf of my fellow evangelical church nice people of whom I am not really a part and do not know how to be. My heart aches to create beauty that will both thank God for saving me and will relieve other’s ache and help Him draw them to Him. But too much of my energy is spent in anger, hate, dissapointment, longing for escape and retribution. Here are the words from Dylan’s “When the Deal Goes Down” that melted my icy heart this morning: In the still of the night, in the world’s ancient light Where wisdom grows up in strife My bewildered brain, toils in vain Through the darkness on the pathways of life Each invisible prayer is like a cloud in the air Tomorrow keeps turning around We live and we die, we know not why But I’ll be with you when the deal goes down We eat and we drink, we feel and we think Far down the street we stray I laugh and I cry and I’m haunted by Things I never meant or wished to say The midnight rain follows the train We all wear the same thorny crown Doul to soul, our shadows roll And I’ll be with you when the deal goes down.” There are two more verses but these first two are sufficient to let me know I am not alone on this planet. There are others who strut and fret and never get to be elders or elders wives but who know that they know that they know they’ll be with their God and He will be with them “when the deal goes down.”

]]> By: James http://wol1959.wordpress.com/about/#comment-200 James Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:04:36 +0000 https://wol1959.wordpress.com/about/#comment-200 Dear Lawrence, I have enjoyed our brief exchanges on your Mustard Seeds blog and want to thank you for your generous responses. I wondered whether you have come across Frankie Ward's research into blogging as a method of theological reflection. Below you will find her questionaire perhaps you may find the time to fill it in and aid her research. God bless, James Church Hi! I’m Frankie Ward and with Elaine Graham and Heather Walton we’re the speakers at the British and Irish Association of Practical Theology conference that meets in Manchester July 18 – 20th this year, with the theme of theological reflection. I’d like to do something at the conference on blogging as a method of theological reflection – and would be really grateful if you could answer any or all of these questions – and forward them on to anyone else you know who might be prepared to answer them too. I need responses, if possible, by July 3rd … I don’t blog (yet!) so responses to my email address at fefward@btinternet.com although if there’s any way that some dialogue can be generated within whatever blogging community you belong to, it would be great to be notified of any links etc that I might otherwise miss. Many thanks in anticipation … 1. How long have you been blogging? 2. What got you started? 3. Do you have a history of diary/journal/log writing beforehand? 4. How in your own mind do you negotiate the boundary between private and public? 5. How do you decide? What criteria do you use for inclusion/exclusion? 6. How much time, on average, do you spend blogging each day or week? 7. How many other people do you actively engage with – e.g. are part of your blog community? 8. Who is your readership – literally; as far as you know? 9. and metaphorically? Do you imagine someone to whom you write/with whom you engage? 10. What counts as successful blogging? 11. What does blogging offer as a method of theological reflection? 12. What potential do you see for blogging as a method of theological reflection? See 13. Do you know of examples of theological education programmes where students are required to keep a learning journal and blog as a form of journal? 14. Blogging and gender: do you think gender makes any difference to any of the above questions? Dear Lawrence,

I have enjoyed our brief exchanges on your Mustard Seeds blog and want to thank you for your generous responses. I wondered whether you have come across Frankie Ward’s research into blogging as a method of theological reflection. Below you will find her questionaire perhaps you may find the time to fill it in and aid her research.

God bless,

James Church

Hi! I’m Frankie Ward and with Elaine Graham and Heather Walton we’re the speakers at the British and Irish Association of Practical Theology conference that meets in Manchester July 18 – 20th this year, with the theme of theological reflection. I’d like to do something at the conference on blogging as a method of theological reflection – and would be really grateful if you could answer any or all of these questions – and forward them on to anyone else you know who might be prepared to answer them too. I need responses, if possible, by July 3rd … I don’t blog (yet!) so responses to my email address at fefward@btinternet.com although if there’s any way that some dialogue can be generated within whatever blogging community you belong to, it would be great to be notified of any links etc that I might otherwise miss.
Many thanks in anticipation …

1. How long have you been blogging?

2. What got you started?

3. Do you have a history of diary/journal/log writing beforehand?

4. How in your own mind do you negotiate the boundary between private and public?

5. How do you decide? What criteria do you use for inclusion/exclusion?

6. How much time, on average, do you spend blogging each day or week?

7. How many other people do you actively engage with – e.g. are part of your blog community?

8. Who is your readership – literally; as far as you know?

9. and metaphorically? Do you imagine someone to whom you write/with whom you engage?

10. What counts as successful blogging?

11. What does blogging offer as a method of theological reflection?

12. What potential do you see for blogging as a method of theological reflection? See

13. Do you know of examples of theological education programmes where students are required to keep a learning journal and blog as a form of journal?

14. Blogging and gender: do you think gender makes any difference to any of the above questions?

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