Again Seeker
There’s an again here. Really there is. Yet, in Oklahoma instead of saying, I’m getting ready to … ” we say, “I’m fixin’ to …” We say those words in the morning when we’re getting ready for work. I say them in the evening when I’m about to prepare dinner. I’m fixin’ to … again…
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It’s the second time in a few days that Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast has come up in my studies. This week, it came up as I was studying about rest and Sabbath. Sabbath became absolutely crucial to the Jewish people when they had no Tabernacle. It became a feast day of rest on the…
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Writing this blog is honing my research skills. I find myself reading — not so much for pleasure — but for fodder for the blog. It’s always hungry, always looking for content, a pure protein diet that needs meal prep. I also find myself going down rabbit warrens, in circles, and basically questioning everything. Every.…
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This week, I read a story on Facebook that threw red flags for me. I did a little research myself. After I did, I was disappointed in the post and even a little bit in a few of my “friends.” You see it pitted us against each other by distorting the facts, producing fear, tapping…
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On hard days when I don’t know what to do, I recite. The Lord’s Prayer. A poem. A hymn. A scripture. Recite means to say something from memory. The lyrics to numerous hymns, passages of scripture, entire scenes from Psych or Sports Night, Psalm 23, Needtobreathe and 80s rock lyrics are all things I can…
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I signed up for a monthly email from the Carmelites after reading the Sensible Shoes series. The brothers send along Lectio Divina for each month. The Sensible Shoes series shared many spiritual practices that I was unfamiliar with — Lectio Divina was among them. In the books, the author, Sharon Garlough Brown, would highlight different…
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Keck and I are season ticket holders to the SMU Tate Lecture Series. Tonight’s lecture featured, Lisa Randall, Harvard professor and author of Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. (A book not on my reading list.) She’s convinced that there’s such a thing as dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter, she says, makes up about…
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The doctor told me if I was really interested in losing weight he required that I write down everything I ate for a week. An entire week. Two years of constant stress had taken a toll on my waistline, my energy level, and even my mental state. The food diary revealed my unquenchable sweet tooth…
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The Sabbath is for you and me and everyone. But it’s just like us humans to take something that was meant for our good, our pleasure, our senses and turn it into drudgery and depression. To try to legalize it and legislate the joy right out of it. Sit in piety and darkness. Make the…
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My heart landed in my stomach. I looked at my calendar and realized I had booked February and not March. February and March’s days of the week are exactly the same through the 28th. It was so easy to do. Of course, I didn’t catch it in the 24-hour window. When I called the airline…
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