2023-03-25 03:26
• Five Minute Friday :: Follow Linkup• Luke 9:57 I will follow you wherever you go … I will follow you. • Matthew 8:19 I will follow you wherever you go … I will… Read More
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2023-03-18 05:02
• Five Minute Friday :: Story Linkup• Here's one from a few years ago with my Telling the Story labelSuddenly you look and no matter how you parse it, you're not remotely where yo… Read More
2023-03-03 23:55
• Five Minute Friday :: Reach LinkupNow the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. … and in you all… Read More
2023-02-28 22:45
• Peach Blossoms header! Last spring I blogged peaches from the same trees. I love how well a Photoshop dry brush filter captured the seasonal mood. • December 2022 Highlights… Read More
2023-02-25 19:32
• Five Minute Friday :: Assume LinkupSuch a good prompt! This week I'll begin on almost the same page as our FMF host Kate. We automatically assume countless things about other people… Read More
2023-02-17 23:14
Even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.1 Corinthians 12:12 • Five Minute Friday :… Read More
2023-02-10 19:30
• Five Minute friday :: Access LinkupHow do you access it? With a key? Is there an access code with letters and/or numbers? What do you mean by "access?" Unlock? Go inside? Learn the se… Read More
2023-02-04 06:59
There's something you can do about it. Meet somebody halfway. To communicate is the beginning of understanding.• Five Minute Friday :: Ignore LinkupIgnore reminded me of a group of ol… Read More
2023-02-03 05:50
Intro: These days I preach from notes, so typically I can't easily fill in the spaces and blog. Besides, a homily really is for a specific day and place, for "those people" in the best sen… Read More
2023-02-01 06:45
• January daffodils! Most people think of daffodils, crocus, hyacinths, and flowering bulbs as harbingers of spring. [link to my Green Team talk from a few years ago.] I was a little su… Read More
2023-01-21 01:57
• Five Minute Friday :: Doubt LinkupPhilosophers and theologians like to remind us faith or belief (trust) and doubt (not trusting) form a bonded pair that can't be separated. We know… Read More
2023-01-15 05:49
First FMF of this new year! • Five Minute Friday :: Receive LinkupFrom Gian-Carlo Menotti's Ahmal and the Night Visitors:The child we seek holds the seas and the winds on his palm.The… Read More
2023-01-13 18:38
Copland, Symphony #3; Harris, Symphony #3With trilingual liner notes in English, German, and French along with strikingly bright cover art featuring a DC-2 hovering above a horse-drawn stage… Read More
2023-01-01 00:44
• Urban Wilderness Lectionary Project for December • Goats and sheep who visited during our Posada and Toy Gift Shop. There also were chickens, but as an innkeeper I didn't get t… Read More
2022-12-10 00:48
• Five Minute Friday :: Simple LinkupDo you know the song "Simple Gifts," written by Shaker elder Joseph Brackett in the mid-nineteenth century? It's made rounds as standalone music, b… Read More
2022-12-08 03:18
• Five Minute Friday :: Instant LinkupTwo Sundays ago we started to wait for Jesus' arrival again as the church began a new year of grace. Emmanuel—God with us. With so much in t… Read More
2022-12-01 02:12
• September 2022• October 2022 • Urban Wilderness Lectionary Project for November • Midterm Elections turned out fairly well, with lots of room for improvement and… Read More
2022-11-30 06:09
• Five Minute Friday :: Like LinkupChrist is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation… Colossians 1:15 To like a person, food, activity, or place goes beyond… Read More
2022-11-19 04:53
• Five Minute Friday :: Laugh LinkupJohn 20:1, 12-16Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been rolled… Read More
2022-11-06 00:34
• Five Minute Friday :: Perform LinkupIntroDo you know your Enneagram number? If you don't, online quizzes can help you find out, or even better, a spiritual director or life coach can… Read More
2022-11-01 03:30
• Urban Wilderness Lectionary Project for October • Early October Parking Lot Sale featured plants, pictures, books, clothes, kitchen miscellany and other fun stuff. I did we… Read More
2022-10-28 21:07
• Five Minute Friday :: While LinkupSit a while and we'll while away some time. I'm not sure of the formal, technical meaning of while, but for me the noun "while" connotes an unspecif… Read More
2022-10-22 05:40
• Five Minute Friday :: Testimony Linkup 1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away f… Read More
2022-10-15 18:03
photograph with reuse rights by y6y6y6 on flickr• Five Minute Friday :: Compromise LinkupIt's hybrid! It's fusion! It's a gift of compromise! In a world that's becoming even flatter th… Read More
2022-10-08 06:11
• Five Minute Friday :: Become LinkupThis week's become prompt reminded me of God rebuilding the ruins of Jerusalem with help from the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah. You may know abo… Read More
2022-10-05 03:30
• Five Minute Friday :: Road Linkup"Traveler, there is no road, the road is made by walking." "Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar." Antonio Machado, Campos de CastillaI'v… Read More
2022-09-30 22:11
• urban wilderness / city paradise for September • First ever venture to the Los Angeles Zoo. Flamingos, Okapi, and Giraffes were happy to b… Read More
2022-09-28 18:24
Paul Howard's brand-new documentary, A Pebble in the Pond reminds us how tiny actions sometimes create far-reaching ripples. In Paul's film, historical highlights and present-day needs conve… Read More
2022-09-23 06:01
• Five Minute Friday :: Represent LinkupThese days I often seriously consider what represents my dreams. What concrete image or object, which less visible thought or memory is a good e… Read More
2022-09-17 02:43
• Five Minute Friday :: Spontaneous LinkupIntroFrom this creative who's been known to surprise other people and myself that I can be so locked-in, close to inert, and un-spontaneous as… Read More
2022-09-09 20:47
• Five Minute Friday :: Generous linkupQueen Elizabeth II lived with "depth, breadth, generosity." The world has become so very interdependent, complex, and confusing. Increased global… Read More
2022-09-02 19:25
• Five Minute Friday :: Root Linkup "… that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love … you may have the power to compreh… Read More
2022-09-01 00:05
• June 2022 Happenings • July 2022 Highlights• Urban Wilderness Lectionary Project for AugustMy header collage illustrates a couple of stellar fun events this month:&bul&hellip…Read More
2022-08-27 19:38
• Five Minute Friday :: Show LinkupIntroDuring the daily blog challenge in October 2017 I wrote about the North End of Boston. My series title was 31 Days of Celebrating Place—I'm… Read More
2022-08-19 23:48
• Five Minute Friday :: View LinkupThe View from the RiverWhat does the view from the river that named this city show me? As with anyone's limited visual perspective, what I can see on… Read More
2022-08-18 20:38
Here are a few additions to my bibliography for [original working title], Justice, Freedom and Redemption: Divine Image and Creation's Glory, first blogged eighteen years ago in July 2004… Read More
2022-08-13 18:43
Isaiah 43:18-19Remember not the former thingsnor consider the things of old.behold, I am doing a new thing;now it springs forth; do you not perceive it? • Five Minute Friday :: Forget l… Read More
2022-08-05 22:02
• Five Minute Friday :: Together LinkupA few autumns ago just before Thanksgiving Day USA, the soundtrack to a too short Walmart TV commercial sang the Youngbloods: Love is but a song… Read More
2022-08-01 03:42
• Lectionary Project for July • Saturday naturals • Classic Flag Over Porch over a long Fourth of July weekend in the mountains of Big Bear City, San Bernardi… Read More
2022-07-29 18:45
• Five Minute Friday :: Be Linkup This week I'll be on the music train again. "Be" reminds me of one of my all time fave songs (who knows how many of those there be? Don't ask.)… Read More
2022-07-22 22:54
• Five Minute Friday :: Chance Linkup From "While You See a Chance" by Steve WinwoodStand up in a clear blue morningUntil you seeWhat can beAlone in a cold day dawning,Are you still fr… Read More
2022-07-21 21:17
For this main twenty-year blogoversary reflection, though I could start at the beginning with "why a blog" and some of the titles I considered along with this one that won because it felt f… Read More
2022-07-16 03:04
• Five Minute Friday :: Propose LinkupPropose is an excellent prompt to continue celebrating this blog's twenty (20) year blogoversary. "Continue"? I mentioned it in last week's FMF; to… Read More
2022-07-08 20:39
• Twenty :: Linkup We humans have a habit of marking time, counting years. In some ways linear time is a gift of God's condescension to human needs, yet it's absolutely necessary for… Read More
2022-07-01 21:49
• Five Minute Friday :: Trust LinkupMary came in with a jar of very expensive aromatic oils, anointed Jesus' feet, and then wiped his feet with her hair. The fragrance of the oils fill… Read More
2022-07-01 04:49
• Urban Wilderness Lectionary Project for June on my other "main blog." • Mid-afternoon lunch with Shadi at Chio's Peruvian Grill on Friday 03 June. • "I Voted" on Tuesd… Read More
2022-06-30 18:10
The scent of June is the scent of summer. Imagine! After a rainfall. Just-picked tomatoes. It may be early in the season (summer in the northern hemisphere doesn't begin until late in the mo… Read More
2022-06-27 18:00
What is one next step you can take to finish your current writing project?My current writing project is eighteen years old! Here's my preliminary bibliography. Since then I've acquired and r… Read More
2022-06-24 23:05
• Five Minute Friday :: Aware LinkupEvery one of you who have been baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, there is no longer slave… Read More
2022-06-24 00:03
I often say flourish, flourishing, bounty, bountiful, especially when I talk about God's bountiful gifts from earth, vine, and tree that help community and the land itself flourish, that mak… Read More
2022-06-22 19:34
A favorite memory of a summer eveningIn his prologue to A Death in the Family that Samuel Barber musically interpreted as Knoxville: Summer of 1915, James Agee asked, "And who shall ever tel… Read More
2022-06-22 19:21
Today's Hope Writers prompt asks what my ideal reader buys at the farmer's market and wonders why. They suggested the pronoun she; for simplicity I'll keep it. My ideal blog reader goes to t… Read More
2022-06-22 02:41
Identify an obstacle to my writing routine in summer (this summer). What can I do about it?Easy one! Same as the obstacles to my living more fully. Lack of social interactions. Not enough pe… Read More
2022-06-22 02:31
How has my writing life enriched my everyday life in the last three months?Mental Health pastor Barry Pearman – Turning the Page told me he blogs every week "even if it's like sho… Read More
2022-06-22 02:30
What was the last article or book I recommended to a friend, and why?For summer solstice today, the Hope Writers prompt asks for a book recommendation. That doesn't fly for me because solsti… Read More
2022-06-22 01:31
A time I visited the beach.Truro. Malibu East, Malibu West. Revere (Ri-vee-ah). Easta Bost. Windansea. La Jolla Shores. Pacific Beach. My list's not endless, but my memories approach infinit… Read More
2022-06-22 01:31
Most months I look at the Hope Writer prompts; a few usually appeal to me, but not enough to blog every day. This month was different. I easily could write to almost all of them, but needed… Read More
2022-06-18 03:34
• five minute friday :: guess linkupI give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know you… Read More
2022-06-11 04:23
• Five Minute Friday :: Stir LinkupTherefore [because of the faithfulness of Timothy's mother Eunice and grandmother Lois] I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you throug… Read More
2022-06-03 20:36
• Five Minute Friday :: Danger Linkup This week's prompt instantly reminded me the Chinese pictogram for crisis illustrates both danger and opportunity. Though I could take this prompt… Read More
2022-05-31 23:51
• March 2022 – Winter into Spring• April 2022 Highlights• Lectionary Project May 2022 • Sunday 08 May Mother's Day / Easter 4 / Worship Program Cover • O… Read More
2022-05-27 22:55
• Five Minute Friday :: Heal LinkupBut unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings, and ye shall go forth and skip about like colts frisky… Read More
2022-05-20 21:36
• Five Minute Friday :: Know LinkupPhilippians 3:8-12I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord … not having a righteousness of m… Read More
2022-05-14 01:51
• Five Minute Friday :: Vision LinkupThen I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city… Read More
2022-05-01 04:53
• Liturgy and Lunch on Tuesday in Holy Week in Glendale. First time there since February 2020—more than two years! These stained glass windows on the front of the building… Read More
2022-05-01 04:03
What a topic for a fun free ramble! Fast cars, fast fashion, fast(ing from) food. • Five Minute Friday :: Fast LinkupFast: so many meanings! Moving speedily, finishing in warp time, re… Read More
2022-04-23 01:32
• Five Minute Friday :: Run LinkupEarly on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So… Read More
2022-04-16 20:12
Palms 2 Cross public domain illustration from the group we used Good Friday evening for Stations of the Cross with scripture readings Tenebrae service• Five Minute Friday Deny LinkupWe'… Read More
2022-04-15 04:37
Psalm 11612What shall I render to the LordFor all his benefits toward me?13I will take the cup of salvation,And call upon the name of the Lord.17I will offer the sacrifice of thanksgiving… Read More
2022-04-01 19:20
• Five Minute Friday :: Coffee LinkupFrom Main Street to Wall Street, Downtown into Uptown, coffee shops – single location indie, regional ones, globe-circling chains – offe… Read More
2022-03-31 19:32
• During March I never left the Los Angeles city limits! I'd never thought to track such a thing until in my google maps update I noticed I never left LA during October 2021, either. F… Read More
2022-03-26 04:39
• Five Minute Friday :: Spring LinkupArizona poet Richard Shelton's night has "morning around the edges." When you wake up at a certain hour, you notice dawn still has night around the… Read More
2022-03-24 17:59
NurtureHere's the container garden tomato I planted at the March 12th Saturday workshop. I'm learning to nurture it so its fruit will nurture me and others once it's ripe. Lenten Snapshots 2… Read More
2022-03-23 19:17
WrongSome of us are old enough to remember all the free world [cautiously] rejoicing at the dissolution of the USSR. Putin's undeclared war on the young democracy of Ukraine is as wrong as i… Read More
2022-03-22 17:33
World Water Day 2022 • Faith and Science in Conversation Read More
2022-03-19 23:49
UnfoldingIf it's static it's not alive. Plants, people, situations, cities, hopes, and ideas unfold at various rates of speed and sometimes do the opposite. Is that "refold"? Lenten Snapsho… Read More
2022-03-10 02:01
PromiseEveryone has a physical place in measurable longitude and latitude, even if not a more-or-less permanent one. You need to interpret scripture (on the street?) where you live, but in… Read More
2022-03-07 02:08
OrdinaryWe always seem to remember it's a special meal; let's not forget it's a common, ordinary one, too. Lenten Snapshots 2022This is the third year I've blogged to April Fiet's Lenten Sna… Read More
2022-03-05 21:46
Monarch Butterfly Amidst Milkweed in West Los Angeles • TransformationLenten Snapshots 2022Again this year I hope to occasionally blog to April Fiet's Lenten Snapshots. You can find all… Read More
2022-03-04 20:56
ApprovalThe Russian-Ukrainian Conflict is an actual War of aggression and occupation by the Russian president and his operatives with zero approval or cooperation from ordinary Russian citiz… Read More
2022-03-04 04:53
Lenten Snapshots 2022As I did for Lent 2020 and Lent 2021, this year I'm blogging off and on to April Fiet's Lenten Snapshots. You can find all the prompts on the First Pres Scottsbluff webs… Read More
2022-03-01 03:00
• Valentine Month and Heart Month! • Maybe you noticed outings and activities had started again? Suddenly because of Omicron, work and play have been crazy, so life subsided. For F… Read More
2022-02-26 03:16
• Five Minute Friday :: Peace LinkupEver since Abram and Sarai journeyed from Ur of the Chaldeans toward the place God would show them when they got there (no surprise they're considere… Read More
2022-02-19 22:36
• FMF Stretch LinkupIntroDuring the year Y2K, I was playing Saturday night Scrabble again with my last City of History landlord and housemate. I tiled a 3-letter word and asked Nick, "I… Read More
2022-02-14 19:00
This is a soon to be deleted test in Dodger Blue to check permalink address and publication month.Reblogging this again. This is only a temporary test; since I'd unpublished earlier it let m… Read More
2022-02-11 23:25
• Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass,and the fruit tree yield fruit,"and it was so. Genesis 1:11 • FMF :: commit linkupBe committed to an institution. Join the church!… Read More
2022-02-01 05:09
• 4 more Reflections on Scripture During a Worldwide Pandemic on my other main blog: Urban Wilderness Lectionary Project • Float Fest happens the day after the day after the Ros… Read More
2022-01-29 04:14
There grows a tree in ParadiseThe Pilgrims called it the Tree of Life…The leaves of the treeAre for the healing of the nationsArt copyright © Leah Chang / Sun Tree River Design… Read More
2022-01-22 01:39
• Is anything too hard for the Lord? Genesis 18:14 • With God nothing will be impossible. Luke 1:37 • Possibility FMF LinkupPhotos and patterns, graphics and designs in… Read More
2022-01-14 21:24
• FMF :: Determine LinkupIntroThe apostle Paul determined to preach only Christ and him crucified. (This is a theology blog, remember?!) My intro image is from a 5-part Whimsies series… Read More
2022-01-01 00:50
• Urban Paradise Lectionary Project: Four for December• Tuesday 07 December: Ecumenical Prayer followed by Soup, Bread, and Pastries at the Armenian Cathedral in Burbank &bul&helli…Read More
2021-12-25 19:54
The First Sunday of ChristmasThe pastor asked three of us to bear our testimony of Christmas for the proclamation on Sunday, the day after Christmas: where do we find Jesus, the Christ child… Read More
2021-12-19 00:21
• FMF :: Announce LinkupThe last Five Minute Friday of 2021!• On my mostly lectionary blog this week I wrote about Mary Jesus' mother's response to Gabriel's announcement. As the w… Read More
2021-12-10 01:53
• FMF Expectation Linkup• In Shakespeare's Henry V: "For now sits expectation in the air!" Luke 315As the people filled with expectation, and all of them questioned in their heart… Read More
2021-12-01 05:46
• Lake Balboa • Gallery at Mount Olive, Santa Monica • Malibu Lagoon State Beach Entrance Sign • Advent 1 + Thanksgiving at Central • September 2021 Overview&b&hellip…Read More
2021-11-28 00:29
• Five Minute Friday :: Nourish LinkupMy thinking nurture and nutrition/nutritious were related was correct; an online etymology page added "nurse," which makes meaningful sense. Anyo… Read More
2021-11-20 05:14
• Five Minute Friday :: Hide Linkup We plead with God to hide us from danger, shield us from fear. We beg God not to hide from us. Possibilities of Golden Calf Worship so freaked out th… Read More
2021-11-12 21:01
"Desert Scene with Stars" from my suntreeriver design identity• Five Minute Friday Wander LinkupJ.R.R. Tolkien's meme-worthy, "all who wander are not lost" never stops making internet r… Read More
2021-11-12 04:25
• Clockwise from upper left: red church door on Reformation Day; Keep Calm and Mask On kitteh; patio wall lizard; red flowers and cross on Reformation Day • Lectionary P… Read More
2021-11-06 21:49
"The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof;the world and those that dwell therein." Psalm 24:1 Read More
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