blip : Beyond Lost Intellectual Ponderings :

I was frightened and disturbed a few weeks ago when I read excerpts from a meeting president Bush had in Israel earlier. This is probably old news for most of the savvy folks out there who follow the blogs. Nonetheless, here’s the line that makes me worry:
According to Abbas, immediately thereafter Bush said: ‘God told [...]

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I slip in bed when you’re asleep
To hold you close and feel your breath on me
Tomorrow there’ll be so much to do
So tonight I’ll drift in a dream with you

Dixie Chicks, Lullaby

Isaac wrote a while back about looking for “a soundtrack for our lives.” Today I heard the Dixie Chick’s song above and [...]

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Music has always been important to my friends and me. If nothing interesting was going on, we’d head to Zia Records and wander up and down the aisles of new and used CDs. Maybe someone would buy something, but not necessarily. It felt good just to look around and talk about music. Songs were part [...]

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I’ve been thinking about the incarnation lately, and am trying to take a step back and see it from a fresh perspective. Anything can become mundane after hearing it enough times, and I’ve found that to be true with Christmas. I’ve heard so many times that the Son of God became incarnate in [...]

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