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Follow Up: The Gray Area | Not the Ends
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Follow Up: The Gray Area. May 23, 2014. It was recently brought to my attention that I could have been a little more clear in my last blog post. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s ambiguity. Let me, then, clear it up. The largest misconception was that I was advocating for an isolationist mentality – the Church taking herself out of the world, working to be clean and spotless. (And we, as Church, following, working to take ourselves away from ‘base’ things.). But here’s the last few lines:. We need saints...
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The Gray Area | Not the Ends
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May 20, 2014. An Open Letter to Franciscan Students, and any Student Attending any Christian School. Just because you attend a Catholic or Christian college doesn’t mean that you’ve inherited the infallibility of the Pope or the spotlessness of the Church. What music you listen to matters. How you dance matters. How much you drink, and if you drink, matters. People grind), drink a liter of beer on Saturdays, and go to Church on Sunday. That gray area doesn’t exist. Consider the idea of. The principle of ...
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Searching byways | An Autobiography of an Idealist
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An Autobiography of an Idealist. Author Archives: Searching byways. An American in Hiroshima. 5 March, 2017. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. EuroVideo from 2015; I Think My Production Skills are Improving. 5 February, 2017. Basic Facts Every Informed Human Should Know Before Declaring a Stance on Refugees or Trump’s Executive Order. 31 January, 2017. United States of America. Wet foot dry foot. Possible Positives that May Follow Trump’s Executive Order Banning Refugees. 29 January, 2017. 3 October, 2016.
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In the Pits. | Not the Ends
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March 26, 2015. Man is capable of burying his need for God. I think that God has given us reminder after reminder of Him in this created world – the order of the cosmos, the beauty of nature, the simplicity of music, the capability of human rational thought and artistic creation – but I think His last and final call to us is in our suffering. Part of his hearts that he can make room for the greatness of God Himself. It is here that he has to confront his own nothingness. Late have I loved you, O Beauty e...
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The Rhythm of the Second Hand | Not the Ends
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The Rhythm of the Second Hand. June 10, 2014. Ever since the invention of the modern clock, the whole world beats to the rhythm of the second hand, instead of beating to the rhythm of the earth, or the tides, or the seasons, or the sun, or the human heart. Man used to have a. With the earth and its tides and seasons. He planted and sowed and harvested, and he. Man used to have a. Man used to have a. Brother Sun and Sister Moon. Mother Earth. Father God. But we began to quantify. And that robbed Grandfath...
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jessicatherese | Not the Ends
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All posts by jessicatherese. August 7, 2016. Some of you know I got engaged in June to the kindest, bravest, wisest man I have ever met. This is David. He, like his namesake of the Old Testament, is a man after the Lord’s own heart. As of three days ago, we’ve been engaged exactly two months. Engagement is great. Seriously. The day after we got engaged, both of us noticed in the other a new authenticity. Paradoxically, it seems, in binding ourselves in betrothal, we became. Follow on Instagram, but it...
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Test Tube Girl | Not the Ends
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February 17, 2015. One day I fell headfirst. Down into a centrifuge tube. They screwed the cap tight. And spun me until I was all spun out. They aspirated all the things. I was used to living in:. Math, history, joy, fear,. Art, music, and chocolate. Here, look, I tried to say, I need those things. But in came a rush of things so new. O, what a noise! You’ll be healthy, they said,. We’ve mixed this up special for you. But I barely noticed because they pumped my tube. That they used to churn my water.
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Ing. | Not the Ends
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May 17, 2015. These days and times all blur together in my head, like dust bunnies eating each other and giving birth to more dust. Summer is lost in the LEDs of my TV and the breeze can’t be heard over the whirr of my Macbook’s too-loud-fan. I hate unstable transition states, and that’s what these 3-odd weeks at home are. You know how you plot a reaction in chemistry class, with the reactants and the products? 8216; of breaking and forming is the same ‘. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Notify me of new comm...
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O Gilded Leaf | Not the Ends
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May 25, 2014. Sunlight drip drops in on. Brightingly green leaves to begin the song that. A performance man’s hands had no hand in. O shaded tree, o gilded leaf thou canst not. Speak but thou whisperest to me. News of realms of light and shadow. Which flourish beyond my reach. Upward the smoke andsteam twist roundandround. Some dizzyingly dance set to a wild tribal tune. The universe is crying out. For all the world’s a stage. Follow Up: The Gray Area. The Rhythm of the Second Hand. Have a Wordy Picture.
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An Old Sweater | Not the Ends
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November 3, 2014. It’s easier to be broken than it is to be whole. We know what brokenness feels like. It’s like wearing an old, moth-eaten sweater against the chill of the harsh world because it’s better than nothing. And people offer you their coats when you shiver, and the Evil One whispers, “It’s because of your sweater. They feel bad that it has holes in it. That’s the only reason they’re paying attention to you.”. And that’s downright addicting. Our dignity away and that it is forever lost. You can...
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