I mispell things!
i would love to post something fun or insightful but i’ve never done that before so i see no reason to begin now. instead i will simply recommend that you jump over to pam’s blog and read some of her stuff. she has started a series of posts concerning her thoughts on being a “pastor’s wife.” yes i am based but i think she writes some great stuff.
i will leave you with this photo. it’s one that i used last night during my message and it makes me laugh.
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pam forwarded this video from new name pictures (an artist community from the hollywood adventist church). i think tapestry and the hollywood church would get along well if for no other reason than we both love potlucking. potlucks are a wonderful physical representation of the spiritual reality of the church existing as the body of CHRIST – we are more together as the body of CHRIST than our individual parts.
i also really like their “i’m a social justice CHRISTian” video. i think it is a very cool response.
my wife finds the coolest things.
on a lark today i setup a qr code for the tapestry website. in theory you should be able to point your smart phone at this image, scan it with a qr code app and then automatically be taken to the church website. the problem is that i don’t own a smart phone so i can’t really check it out. even if i did have a smart phone i’m not sure how effective it is to even have a qr code. still i think tapestry is the first church in wisconsin to have its own qr code and it was free. woohoo! now my life is complete 🙂
the only thing that i have actually thought of doing with it is beginning to place it on various posters i make for the few special tapestry gatherings we do every now and then. i might also have some stickers made that i can place on various things in hopes that someone discovers them and scans them. i might set it up to a special qr code page on the church website just so the people who use it feel special. i like for geeks to feel special. it makes me feel special.
of course, i might just make it link to this.
just a few thoughts on the monday after resurrection sunday.
anyway i hope that each of you had a remarkable easter sunday that enables you to live out the resurrection.
for the past 40 days of lent i have been emailing people a different image from si smith’s wonderful illustrative interpretation of JESU’ time in the wilderness. since it is easter i thought i would share a youtube video of all 40 images. i love these illustrations.
i love a prayer for owen meany on many different levels. one of those levels derives from the quote below.
i find that holy week is draining; no matter how many times i have lived through HIS crucifixion is undiminised-i am terrified that, this year, it won’t happen; that, that year, it didn’t. anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a CHRISTian at CHRISTmas. but easter is the main event; if you don’t believe in the resurrection, you’re not a believer.
“IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE IN EASTER,” owen meany said, “DON’T KID YOURSELF – DON’T CALL YOURSELF A CHRISTIAN.”
john irving, a prayer for owen meany, pp 250-251
HE is risen! i hope that you have a wonderful easter full of encounters with the ONE WHO defeated death.
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as usual i come away from being with my fellow “threads” more in love with CHRIST and with them. i love being with the people of tapestry. tonight was our second annual tenebrae gathering. thanks to the generosity of guy (the owner of emy j’s coffee) we were able to meet in the garage which was a wonderfully intimate spot. it was a tremendously simple evening of scripture, singing, and increasing darkness. i know it has set me up for easter and i hope it did for many of my friends also.
thank you to everyone who helped do the tenebrae. you guys & girls were amazing.
for those interested in what we did here’s a pdf of the scriptures and songs.
btw for anyone who is interest here’s the paul robeson version of “were you there” that we ended with tonight.
