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Lynette Smith's Lagan: 09/01/2010 - 10/01/2010

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Writings of a fellow voyager in search of wisdom from Scripture, Liturgy, Holy Fathers and Mothers, and others. Tuesday, September 28, 2010. The holy Church Fathers had a theory about what clears the head, or as they put it, concentrates the heart. One of them, Isaac, a Syrian saint of the fifth century wrote,. Blessed is the person who knows his own weakness, because awareness of this becomes for him the foundation and beginning of all that is good and beautiful. Whether maneuvering high mountain trails...

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Lynette Smith's Lagan: 11/01/2010 - 12/01/2010

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Writings of a fellow voyager in search of wisdom from Scripture, Liturgy, Holy Fathers and Mothers, and others. Sunday, November 07, 2010. BACK ON THE WAGON. If the trail deteriorated so badly, why did people keep using it? Because steep cliffs surround the river everywhere else. 8220;The geography of the area dictated that practically every wagon that went west crossed the ridge in exactly the same place, with impressive results.”. 8221; she asked with a sly grin. Red-faced, I realized what I was ca...

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Lynette Smith's Lagan: 10/01/2007 - 11/01/2007

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Writings of a fellow voyager in search of wisdom from Scripture, Liturgy, Holy Fathers and Mothers, and others. Friday, October 26, 2007. The only one moral infantcide. We follow a 30-day cycle of reading all 150 Psalms. At this Saturday’s Vespers, in honor of our bishop’s visit, our choir will be leading the congregation in singing the Psalms appointed for the 28. Of the month. They happen to include Psalm 137 (Hebrew numbering). The original setting for the psalm is one of ancient. 8221; they reply.

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Lynette Smith's Lagan: JUST FINISH

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Writings of a fellow voyager in search of wisdom from Scripture, Liturgy, Holy Fathers and Mothers, and others. Saturday, November 17, 2012. 8220;Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.”*. Ironman’s Triathlon begins with 2 ½ miles of swimming in the Pacific, 112 miles of biking inland, and ends with a 26 mile marathon. Julie trained for each of these events, but did not reach the point of completing any of these distances before the actual race. How hard could it be? Then out of her peripheral vision,...

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Lynette Smith's Lagan: 07/01/2010 - 08/01/2010

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Writings of a fellow voyager in search of wisdom from Scripture, Liturgy, Holy Fathers and Mothers, and others. Friday, July 09, 2010. The last thing to go. Five years ago this month, my mom, Erma, passed away, and she left a memory of her sense of humor with us. Her family will read this and think, “Well, she was humorous in spite. At least the search had kept those three out of the proverbial bar. We laughed over the story until Mom said, “Tell it at my funeral service.” She had come fu...MARRIED: To D...

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Lynette Smith's Lagan: 01/01/2011 - 02/01/2011

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Writings of a fellow voyager in search of wisdom from Scripture, Liturgy, Holy Fathers and Mothers, and others. Saturday, January 15, 2011. The Kingdom of heaven is like a woman who owned a show horse. 8220;How was this going to work practically? Thus, from within her quietness and patience, she led him, one stumbling step at a time, out of his stall. It all came down to trust, the woman said. Story source is from Jeanette Sassoon at http:/ www.valianttrust.org/. See also http:/ blindhorses.org/. Brother...

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Lynette Smith's Lagan: 04/01/2012 - 05/01/2012

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Writings of a fellow voyager in search of wisdom from Scripture, Liturgy, Holy Fathers and Mothers, and others. Friday, April 06, 2012. Of all people whom Jesus freed from demon possession, one woman stands out. She’d accumulated seven demons. Today we might disbelieve a devil had anything to do with her problems; they were rather a host of physical or psychological illnesses. Serious, indeed, but possession? Mary was there when the Pharisees put pressure on Jesus, likely there when Pilate turned him ove...

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Lynette Smith's Lagan: 11/01/2012 - 12/01/2012

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Writings of a fellow voyager in search of wisdom from Scripture, Liturgy, Holy Fathers and Mothers, and others. Saturday, November 17, 2012. 8220;Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.”*. Ironman’s Triathlon begins with 2 ½ miles of swimming in the Pacific, 112 miles of biking inland, and ends with a 26 mile marathon. Julie trained for each of these events, but did not reach the point of completing any of these distances before the actual race. How hard could it be? Then out of her peripheral vision,...

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Lynette Smith's Lagan: 06/01/2011 - 07/01/2011

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Writings of a fellow voyager in search of wisdom from Scripture, Liturgy, Holy Fathers and Mothers, and others. Sunday, June 19, 2011. Of thy mystical supper, O Son of God, accept me today as a communicant…Not like Judas will I give thee a kiss, but like the thief, will I confess thee, “Remember me, O Lord, in thy Kingdom.”. From the Orthodox communion hymn, “Mystical Supper”. Death by crucifixion took hours because the soldiers attached a foot piece to the cross so that he would keep pressing up with hi...

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Lynette Smith's Lagan: 08/01/2010 - 09/01/2010

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Writings of a fellow voyager in search of wisdom from Scripture, Liturgy, Holy Fathers and Mothers, and others. Monday, August 09, 2010. 8220;Today I Quit Being a Christian” – Conclusion. In Parts 1 and 2 of this post, I wrote that I felt aversion, empathy, shame, and frustration reading Anne Rice’s choice to “quit being a Christian.” As my heart pitched back and forth between these emotions, I came at last, thank God, to a feeling of hope. Or complete communion with Jesus Christ in all that he is. There...