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Name: Wayne+
Location: Dayton, Ohio, United States
Gender: Male


Interests: Sandra (my wife and lifetime interest), art, Biblical studies, family, good food and drink, historic architecture, history, movies, music, musicals, poetry, Christianity, Christian worship, parish ministry, travel
Expertise: Making excuses. Not expert at anything really. Any room in the world for a would be 'renaissance man'? I know something about a lot of things (enough to be dangerous) but not a lot about anything in particular.
Occupation: Seek first the kingdom of God
Industry: Nonprofit


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Member Since: 12/8/2005

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Friday, August 26, 2011

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http://mugsmettlesandmeanderings.blogspot.com/

 


Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Currently
Bernstein: Symphony No. 3 ("Kaddish"); Chichester Psalms
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Kaddish, Symphony No. 3

Very moving and at times stunning.  You will balk at the theology at times but if you can look beyond those moments you might find it very pleasant.


Saturday, December 26, 2009

Currently
A Christmas Carol
By George C Scott, Clive Donner
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St. Stephen and the Holy Innocents

Here is a prayer for for new martyrs.

Most gracious Father, we heartily thank Thee for rulers and pastors, monks and laymen, men women, and children, who blossomed forth wondrously in times of grievous persecutions, who finished the course of this earth with Thy confession, bearing good fruit for Christ in Thy endurance. We do here celebrate with rejoicing and thankfulness the faithful witness of the new martyrs of Thy church, [especially N. ].

We humbly beseech Thee so to strengthen us that whenever the hour of trial finds us and we are privileged to suffer for Thy Name's sake, that we also may receive the gift of courage from Thee, remembering neither tribulation, prison, or death can separate us from Thy love. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.




Sunday, November 15, 2009

Currently
Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for This Urgent Time
By Marva J. Dawn
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Just Too Corny

I found this somewhere and forgot to note where. My apologies for no credit to the author. Corn out the ears. LOL.

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HUMOR FOR LOGOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS):


I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

Police were called to a day care where a 3-yr-old was resisting a rest.

Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.

The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.

The butcher backed up into the meat grinder & got a little behind in his work.

To write with a broken pencil is pointless.

When fish are in schools, they sometimes take debate.

The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

A thief who stole a calendar got 12 months.

A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened criminal.

When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.

The dead batteries were given out free of charge.

A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail.

A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.

A will is a dead giveaway.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

A backward poet writes inverse.

In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.

A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.

If you don't pay your exorcist, you can get repossessed.

Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat miner.

The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.

A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France, resulted in Linoleum Blownapart.

You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.

A calendar's days are numbered.

A lot of money is tainted: 'Taint yours, and 'taint mine.

A boiled egg is hard to beat.

He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

When you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.

When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.

Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.

Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.

Acupuncture: a jab well done.




Friday, November 06, 2009

Currently
Absolute Power
By Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Scott Glenn
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For All the Saints

The celebration of All Saints in the Anglican world is contained in an what is known as an 'octave'.  An octave is a series or group of eight, in this case eight days of emphasis and focus.  During an octave the prayer (called a 'collect' and pronounced KAHL ekt) prayed on the first day is said again on each day of the octave. 

Here is our collect for All Saints which we have prayed all this week through Sunday, the eighth day in the octave:

O ALMIGHTY God, who hast knit together thine elect in
one communion and fellowship, in the mystical body
of thy Son Christ our Lord; Grant us grace so to follow thy
blessed Saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may
come to those unspeakable joys which thou hast prepared
for those who unfeignedly love thee; through the same thy
Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

It is good to remember that we are part of something much bigger than ourselves, something that began a long time ago with Adam and Eve and continues to this day.  We have a rich and godly heritage, a noble army of saints, men, women, and children, that lived faithful and at times extraordinary lives.  It would behoove us to acquaint ourselves with those to whom we owe a great debt of gratitude.  It is much easier to see the powerful hand of God in history through the lives of His saints.

Along with our remembrances of them often comes an growing sober sense of the importance of our own lives.  What we have received from them we must be faithful to preserve.  We too must be faithful to advance the cause of Christ and the Gospel in the place where we have been planted, with the people we know, with the means and opportunities God has given us.

God bless us all as we follow in their footsteps and build for a future that is not our own.










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