One of my fans has asked for updates on what I'm doing in confirmation prep with my one and only confirmand...
Last Sunday afternoon we thought about Creation and the Creator. I read Genesis 1:1-2:3, really slowly, and he made a picture of what it sounded like. I think I might have done 7 (or at least 6) pictures, but he choose to put it all in one - he doesn't 'do' art. No prob.
We mused about whether or not the scientific creation story and the biblical one are mutually exclusive... are there lifeforms somewhere else? Why just us?
We looked at a lovely glass artist's image of Earth from space...
We listened to Bette Middler's From a distance...
We looked at some pictures from the Hubble telescope...
and then I showed him some tools for studying the Bible: my Hebrew-English Tanakh, (woe is me - I've lost almost all my Hebrew, so hardly achieved) a synopsis of the gospels, a concordance, different translations, some Greek words...
and it was time to go! how quickly 2 hours passes!
Homework: find some other creation stories, start to learn the Lord's Prayer.
See you next week!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Justice has finally been served, Mike!
Once upon a time, almost 25 years ago, in a family of 5, there was one piece of cheesecake left after dinner. It was tucked away in the cupboard for 'tomorrow'...
The next day, when the hard-working mom was looking for a snack, she discovered the cheesecake: perfect! How would you ever divide once piece of cheesecake among 5 people? Better to eat and enjoy it now, and avoid the squabbles when the kids got home from school. Yummmm
Yesterday that hard-workin' mom got home from work late - TGIF! All through supper she kept thinking of the one piece of rhubarb sour cream pie sitting on the shelf, and she knew it was going to be the perfect finale to her hard day. What?????? gone????? not possible!!! Eaten by the man who says he loves her - How could that be????? Didn't he know how much she wanted it? Couldn't he see her name on it?
Justice has been served ... I finally understand, Mike...
The next day, when the hard-working mom was looking for a snack, she discovered the cheesecake: perfect! How would you ever divide once piece of cheesecake among 5 people? Better to eat and enjoy it now, and avoid the squabbles when the kids got home from school. Yummmm
Yesterday that hard-workin' mom got home from work late - TGIF! All through supper she kept thinking of the one piece of rhubarb sour cream pie sitting on the shelf, and she knew it was going to be the perfect finale to her hard day. What?????? gone????? not possible!!! Eaten by the man who says he loves her - How could that be????? Didn't he know how much she wanted it? Couldn't he see her name on it?
Justice has been served ... I finally understand, Mike...
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