tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7824638781408722483.post2566624666285229278..comments2023-06-01T08:22:02.085-04:00Comments on here still running: Wearyjohniebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11635403219973766022noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7824638781408722483.post-7113981050205555022008-06-28T13:59:00.000-04:002008-06-28T13:59:00.000-04:00Johnieb, I thought I had left a comment here. I k...Johnieb, I thought I had left a comment here. I know I did. I guess it didn't take. Now I find that I'd much rather look at your kitteh pictures and leave a word there, except for this: Russ and Chris rock!June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7824638781408722483.post-74420852010051487122008-06-26T13:41:00.000-04:002008-06-26T13:41:00.000-04:00OK, when in doubt read the manual eh! midweek HC t...OK, when in doubt read the manual eh! midweek HC this morning with my devout old ladies. We use the '59 Book of Common Prayer AND its included lections. The fewer books the better. The 'pistle this morning was 1 Pete 3:8ff, and this just says what I was trying to say:<BR/><BR/>Be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous; not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. For<BR/>He that will love life,<BR/>And see good days,<BR/>Let him refrain his tongue from evil,<BR/>And his lips that they speak no guile:<BR/>Let him forsake evil, and do good;<BR/>Let him seek peace, and follow after it...<BR/>That was it, the bit about "railing for railing". We amused ourselves with the mental pic of prelates walloping each other with chunks of banister, momentarily, but fortunately my ladies knew what it meant "to rail" at somebody.<BR/>Yes, exactly, "Sister, what you are doing is vile" -- my phrase would have been, "Brother, this is not worthy of you or your high calling"...<BR/>thanks for your patience!Crimson Ramblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13020190454645032359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7824638781408722483.post-59592513089899985562008-06-25T22:03:00.000-04:002008-06-25T22:03:00.000-04:00Oh, I meant to say I mailed my Senator (Dodd) a he...Oh, I meant to say I mailed my Senator (Dodd) a hearty thank you! for taking the lead, with Feingold, against this FISA obscenity.<BR/><BR/>My Rep, John Larsen, is part of the House leadership; perhaps I'll take that up when I've calmed down.johniebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11635403219973766022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7824638781408722483.post-82273265158966103302008-06-25T22:00:00.000-04:002008-06-25T22:00:00.000-04:00I happily accept on their behalf. The older is in...I happily accept on their behalf. The older is in Cozumel with his Grandma (My ex) for a week's scuba diving; my, how advanced these youngsters are. The younger was annoying his mom as of last night, but is hale and hearty, from the sound of him.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps you will post some thoughts on ways we may say "Sister: what you are doing is vile"? I do feel the grief in condemning anyone, but I cannot stand this dehumanizing ...yes, blasphemy...against the weaker among us. I am sure some of my impatience is my PTSD; such actions are too close, too powerful, after forty years.<BR/><BR/>A resounding "yes" to Jane's insight about lament; I told her I found it personally very helpful.<BR/><BR/>Thanks be to Godde for you both.johniebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11635403219973766022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7824638781408722483.post-30012543285229429282008-06-25T15:33:00.000-04:002008-06-25T15:33:00.000-04:00I like the point about lamentation as an act of li...I like the point about lamentation as an act of liturgy (remembering 9/11, and the lectionary provisions that autumn, which my people jibbed at because they were "too appropriate" -- ???)<BR/>I guess I keep hoping that the GAFCONS will remember that WE are their brothers and sisters in Christ even though they think our policies and behaviours, some of them, are abominable.<BR/>There has to be a way to rebuke a brother in Christ without saying, "Now you are my enemy, and it's open season on you."<BR/>I think the old rhetoricians used to talk about it in terms of "asperity" instead of "vehemence". There's a way to ream out equals--EFFECTUALLY, and there's a way to cuss out the dog...and we ought to be able to tell the difference. But our discourse is impoverished, in all dimensions.<BR/>Love to the grandbabies.Crimson Ramblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13020190454645032359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7824638781408722483.post-80818801203837980592008-06-25T12:39:00.000-04:002008-06-25T12:39:00.000-04:00So you said before at yer place, I think; thanks f...So you said before at yer place, I think; thanks for the reminder and the grammar help. I might complain more if I felt more positively about it!<BR/><BR/>Good to see ya again, Crimson. I acknowledge your point, but my compassion goes first to persons being beaten, arrested, and raped due to policies our brothers in baptism help to sustain and support. There is also the matter of "never heard of such a thing" and the failure even to nod in agreement when Jensen was pushed into condemning such atrocities. Granted, my information comes through specific cultural filters, but I will not conceal my outrage simply because I, too, am a sinner.johniebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11635403219973766022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7824638781408722483.post-88073349230474095232008-06-25T01:24:00.000-04:002008-06-25T01:24:00.000-04:00It's the plural. Mitzvah is the singular.Yeah, and...It's the plural. Mitzvah is the singular.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, and I don't do it often enough. Oy.<BR/><BR/>Hope you're doing all right. It's so easy to be discouraged and weary.<BR/><BR/>In which case, lament is a mitzvah too, y'know? Because it is a naming of the situation, and that is holy, and that is the beginning of change. Lament is a liturgical act. And a subversive one. Lament is protest.<BR/><BR/>And sometimes that is all we can do, for the time being.Jane Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13814517077774999407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7824638781408722483.post-9992748028711245812008-06-24T19:53:00.000-04:002008-06-24T19:53:00.000-04:00the hard part is remembering that the GAFCON'n'the...the hard part is remembering that the GAFCON'n'them...still our brothers and sisters by our baptism...which trumps everything. Everything.Crimson Ramblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13020190454645032359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7824638781408722483.post-13643941617358482012008-06-24T18:08:00.000-04:002008-06-24T18:08:00.000-04:00That's a mitzvot, or is that the plural? Oy.That's a mitzvot, or is that the plural? Oy.johniebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11635403219973766022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7824638781408722483.post-37404048135798340782008-06-24T15:29:00.000-04:002008-06-24T15:29:00.000-04:00P.S. I just wrote the Obama campaign to complain a...P.S. I just wrote the Obama campaign to complain about the FISA vote.Jane Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13814517077774999407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7824638781408722483.post-37573557615583204612008-06-23T22:43:00.000-04:002008-06-23T22:43:00.000-04:00On the political front, see janinsanfran, singing ...On the political front, see <A HREF="http://happening-here.blogspot.com/2008/06/opposition-as-higher-loyalty.html" REL="nofollow">janinsanfran</A>, singing that song by Howard Zinn I have posted twice. <BR/><BR/>Politicians -- eh.<BR/><BR/>No comment on GAFCON (I have no word from Her Grace Maya of North Carolina this evening, she does not wish to speak about this) but I say have some more fresh fruit and work on the herb garden and tend the house and the energy will return for the Movement. But yeah, there is cause for disgust.<BR/><BR/>Nevertheless, we live in hope. Failing that, we go and have a nap.Jane Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13814517077774999407noreply@blogger.com